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r67463 | skip.montanaro | 2008-12-01 02:55:22 +0100 (Mon, 01 Dec 2008) | 1 line
typo in comment
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r67572 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-05 10:23:14 +0100 (Fri, 05 Dec 2008) | 2 lines
#4458: recognize "-" as an argument, not a malformed option in gnu_getopt().
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r67576 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-05 13:09:41 +0100 (Fri, 05 Dec 2008) | 2 lines
#4529: fix parser's validation for try-except-finally statements.
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r67628 | skip.montanaro | 2008-12-07 03:16:00 +0100 (Sun, 07 Dec 2008) | 1 line
muffed the default case
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 81b0900..19581d6 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -31,6 +31,15 @@
- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
libs.
+- Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
+ statements.
+
+- Issue #4458: getopt.gnu_getopt() now recognizes a single "-" as an argument,
+ not a malformed option.
+
+- Added the subprocess.check_output() convenience function to get output
+ from a subprocess on success or raise an exception on error.
+
- Issue #4542: On Windows, binascii.crc32 still accepted str as binary input;
the corresponding tests now pass.