Merged revisions 55342-55406 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/p3yk

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  r55360 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-05-15 14:57:59 -0700 (Tue, 15 May 2007) | 2 lines

  obcheckin.
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  r55361 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-05-15 14:59:18 -0700 (Tue, 15 May 2007) | 2 lines

  Get rid of strop module.
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  r55367 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-15 21:06:28 -0700 (Tue, 15 May 2007) | 2 lines

  Remove the 'pure' module.
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  r55369 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-15 21:07:31 -0700 (Tue, 15 May 2007) | 2 lines

  Remove the lib-old directory (already empty).
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  r55370 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-15 21:30:40 -0700 (Tue, 15 May 2007) | 1 line

  Get rid of a bunch more references to strop
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  r55374 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-15 21:39:00 -0700 (Tue, 15 May 2007) | 2 lines

  Complete the removal of IRIX-specific modules.
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  r55379 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-15 22:31:54 -0700 (Tue, 15 May 2007) | 2 lines

  Update removed IRIX modules based on what is gone from removing plat-irix6.
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  r55388 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-16 14:34:52 -0700 (Wed, 16 May 2007) | 2 lines

  Clean up the docstring for the compiler resource.
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  r55406 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-17 11:05:37 -0700 (Thu, 17 May 2007) | 2 lines

  Remove BaseException.message (deprecated in Python 2.6).
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0e25381..86c8af9 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Remove BaseException.message.
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+- Remove strop module.
+
 - Remove tuple parameter unpacking (PEP 3113).
 
 - Remove the f_restricted attribute from frames.  This naturally leads to teh
@@ -190,7 +194,9 @@
 - Remove Bastion and rexec as they have been disabled since Python 2.3 (this
   also leads to the C API support for restricted execution).
 
-- Remove obsolete IRIX modules: al, cd, cl, fl, fm, gl, imgfile, sgi, sv.
+- Remove obsolete IRIX modules: al/AL, cd/CD, cddb, cdplayer, cl/CL, DEVICE,
+  ERRNO, FILE, fl/FL, flp, fm, GET, gl/GL, GLWS, IN, imgfile, IOCTL, jpeg,
+  panel, panelparser, readcd, sgi, sv/SV, torgb, WAIT.
 
 - Remove bsddb185 module; it was obsolete.