From: R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:00:17 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: whatsnew: collections no longer implicitly imports 'abc' (#20784).
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.1rc1~233^2~33
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d73721a7e46c6b978250789de5e483669cfe5a0e;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

whatsnew: collections no longer implicitly imports 'abc' (#20784).
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
index 564496696093..0630e7000d4e 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
@@ -2436,6 +2436,13 @@ Changes in the Python API
   have things that look like doctests in them you may see test failures you've
   never seen before when running your tests (:issue:`3158`).
 
+* The :mod:`collections.abc` module has been slightly refactored as
+  part of the Python startup improvements.  As a consequence of this, it is no
+  longer the case that importing :mod:`collections` automatically imports
+  :mod:`collections.abc`.  If your program depended on the (undocumented)
+  implicit import, you will need to add an explicit ``import collections.abc``
+  (:issue:`20784`).
+
 
 Changes in the C API
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