changeset:   90680:f67cf5747a26
branch:      3.4
parent:      90678:4ea86cd87f95
user:        Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
date:        Mon May 12 22:01:46 2014 -0700
files:       Misc/NEWS
description:
Issue 21469:  Add missing news item


diff -r 4ea86cd87f95 -r f67cf5747a26 Misc/NEWS
--- a/Misc/NEWS	Mon May 12 21:56:33 2014 -0700
+++ b/Misc/NEWS	Mon May 12 22:01:46 2014 -0700
@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@
 - Issue #21088: Bugfix for curses.window.addch() regression in 3.4.0.
   In porting to Argument Clinic, the first two arguments were reversed.
 
+- Issue #21469:  Reduced the risk of false positives in robotparser by
+  checking to make sure that robots.txt has been read or does not exist
+  prior to returning True in can_fetch().
+
 - Issue #21321: itertools.islice() now releases the reference to the source
   iterator when the slice is exhausted.  Patch by Anton Afanasyev.