From: R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 04:15:12 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: whatsnew: abc.ABC.  Also add issue number to news entry and reword.
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.0b2~71
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2691ee61833f7f460b5f67795b232a9b6f4518d8;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

whatsnew: abc.ABC.  Also add issue number to news entry and reword.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
index 1f0a1f121004..4f408ccac641 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
@@ -481,6 +481,12 @@ New function :func:`abc.get_cache_token` can be used to know when to invalidate
 caches that are affected by changes in the object graph.  (Contributed
 by Łukasz Langa in :issue:`16832`.)
 
+New class :class:`~abc.ABC` has :class:`~abc.ABCMeta` as its meta class.
+Using ``ABC`` as a base class has essentially the same effect as specifying
+``metaclass=abc.ABCMeta``, but is simpler to type and easier to read.
+(Contributed by Bruno Dupuis in :issue:`16049`.)
+
+
 
 aifc
 ----
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 8ef6063ad923..a203bc3d205f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -2671,8 +2671,9 @@ Library
   Content-Length and the incoming stream is finished.  Patch by Eran
   Rundstein.
 
-- Add abc.ABC class to use inheritance rather than a direct invocation of
-  ABCMeta metaclass. Patch by Bruno Dupuis.
+- Issue #16049: Add abc.ABC class to enable the use of inheritance to create
+  ABCs, rather than the more cumbersome metaclass=ABCMeta. Patch by Bruno
+  Dupuis.
 
 - Expose the TCP_FASTOPEN and MSG_FASTOPEN flags in socket when they're
   available.