- bool() called without arguments now returns False rather than
raising an exception. This is consistent with calling the
constructors for the other builtin types -- called without argument
they all return the false value of that type. (SF patch #724135)
Thanks to Alex Martelli.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index a90c8fc..a637100 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@
Core and builtins
-----------------
+- bool() called without arguments now returns False rather than
+ raising an exception. This is consistent with calling the
+ constructors for the other builtin types -- called without argument
+ they all return the false value of that type. (SF patch #724135)
+
- In support of PEP 269 (making the pgen parser generator accessible
from Python), some changes to the pgen code structure were made; a
few files that used to be linked only with pgen are now linked with