Allow exceptions to be directly sliced again
(e.g., ``BaseException(1,2,3)[0:2]``).
Discovered in Python 2.5.0 by Thomas Heller and reported to python-dev. This
should be backported to 2.5 .
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 911f721..c5cc2af 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
Core and builtins
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+- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
+
- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__ method. This
allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes directly to succeed.