SF Patch 643443. Added dict.fromkeys(iterable, value=None), a class
method for constructing new dictionaries from sequences of keys.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 89303ba..066f8a5 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -270,6 +270,11 @@
an optional argument that specifies the characters to strip. For
example, "Foo!!!?!?!?".rstrip("?!") -> "Foo".
+- Dictionaries have a new class method, fromkeys(iterable, value=None).
+ It constructs a new dictionary with keys taken from the iterable and
+ all values set to a single value. It is used for building membership
+ tests and for removing duplicates from sequences.
+
- Added a new dict method pop(key). This removes and returns the
value corresponding to key. [SF patch #539949]