From: Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 17:01:51 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Describe new "str1 in str2" behavior.
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Describe new "str1 in str2" behavior.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 3c5c8348207c..f3971617a471 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes
 
 Core and builtins
 
+- Previously, "str1 in str2" required str1 to be a string of length 1.
+  This restriction has been relaxed to allow str1 to be a string of
+  any length.  Thus "'el' in 'hello world'" returns True now.
+
 - File objects are now their own iterators.  For a file f, iter(f) now
   returns f (unless f is closed), and f.next() is similar to
   f.readline() when EOF is not reached; however, f.next() uses a