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  r77930 | tarek.ziade | 2010-02-03 00:39:40 +0100 (Wed, 03 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  added a note in the whatsnew file for sysconfig
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Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst

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 .. ======================================================================
 .. whole new modules get described in subsections here
 
+* XXX A new :mod:`sysconfig` module has been extracted from :mod:`distutils`
+  and put in the standard library.
+
+  The :mod:`sysconfig` module provides access to Python's configuration
+  information like the list of installation paths and the configuration
+  variables relevant for the current platform.
+
+
 Unit Testing Enhancements
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