Issue 14814: Provide more informative error messages in ipaddress, and ensure that errors are caught as expected
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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Library
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+- Issue #14814: ipaddress now provides more informative error messages when
+ constructing instances directly (changes permitted during beta due to
+ provisional API status)
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- Issue #15247: FileIO now raises an error when given a file descriptor
pointing to a directory.