Issue 3224: Small typo in 2.6 what's new (original) (raw)

Index: Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst

--- Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst (revision 64571) +++ Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst (working copy) @@ -1284,7 +1284,7 @@ Here are all of the changes that Python 2.6 makes to the core Python language.

• The :func:hasattr function was catching and ignoring all errors,

• under the assumption that they meant a :meth:__getattr__ method has

• under the assumption that they meant a :meth:__getattr__ method was failing somewhere and the return value of :func:hasattr would therefore be False. This logic shouldn't be applied to :exc:KeyboardInterrupt and :exc:SystemExit, however; Python 2.6 will