From: Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 21:06:24 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add note about assignment to __debug__ being an error.
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.1c1~800
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=249aaeda0ac7615c4327d3f4e5f79474269be858;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Add note about assignment to __debug__ being an error.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index e873dad6882c..ba98321d9f4d 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes
 
 Core and builtins
 
+- Assignment to __debug__ raises SyntaxError at compile-time.  This
+  was promised when 2.1c1 was released as "What's New in Python 2.1c1"
+  (below) says.
+
 - Clarified the error messages for unsupported operands to an operator
   (like 1 + '').