Added -Qnew news about the test_coercion.py failure. That's the only test

that still fails under -Qnew, and is so tied to details of current
behavior that fixing it before new division becomes the default is
impractical.

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ecdef48a4c2df55a905b00a4741d8c91619c0fc9..46750544958155dcfc6089ff833fd4393e262c1d 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ Core and builtins
   means all instances in library and 3rd-party modules, as well as in
   your own code.  As the PEP says, -Qnew is intended for use only in
   educational environments with control over the libraries in use.
+  Note that test_coercion.py in the standard Python test suite fails
+  under -Qnew; this is expected, and won't be repaired until true
+  division becomes the default (in the meantime, test_coercion is
+  testing the current rules).
 
 Extension modules