From c7c36503ebc1c9fc166ca3c27dd8d7ee8b8eb5ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 01:29:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Mention private vars in __slots__.

---
 Misc/NEWS | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 7171c9c35d1..99c35478439 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes
 
 Core and builtins
 
+- The __slots__ variable can now mention "private" names, and the
+  right thing will happen (e.g. __slots__ = ["__foo"]).
+
 - Unicode objects in sys.path are no longer ignored but treated
   as directory names.