Add a news entry about the sre/re swap.

efbeaef1 · Neal Norwitz · f0e2c07a · efbeaef1
Commit efbeaef1 authored Mar 16, 2006 by Neal Norwitz
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@@ -291,6 +291,9 @@ Core and builtins
 Extension Modules
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+- Swapped re and sre, so help(re) provides full help.  importing sre
+  is deprecated.  The undocumented re.engine variable no longer exists.
 - Bug #1448490: Fixed a bug that ISO-2022 codecs could not handle
  SS2 (single-shift 2) escape sequences correctly.