From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:36:47 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: 	* NEWS: Add Python API Improvements section.
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	* NEWS: Add Python API Improvements section.
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diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 866927297a7..d8abca5593f 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2010-02-17  Tom Tromey  <tromey@redhat.com>
+
+	* NEWS: Add Python API Improvements section.
+
 2010-02-18  Daniel Jacobowitz  <dan@codesourcery.com>
 
 	* NEWS: Correct typo.
diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 662010db389..543b54898cc 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -210,6 +210,20 @@ show ada trust-PAD-over-XVS
    off, but this introduces a slight performance penalty.  The default
    is on.
 
+* Python API Improvements
+
+  ** GDB provides the new class gdb.LazyString.  This is useful in
+     some pretty-printing cases.  The new method gdb.Value.lazy_string
+     provides a simple way to create objects of this type.
+
+  ** The fields returned by gdb.Type.fields now have an
+     `is_base_class' attribute.
+
+  ** The new method gdb.Type.range returns the range of an array type.
+
+  ** The new method gdb.parse_and_eval can be used to parse and
+     evaluate an expression.
+
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