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@@ -886,6 +886,11 @@ Optimizations
start-up time by up to 10%. (Contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi and INADA Naoki
in :issue:`31333`)
+* Significant speed improvements to alternate constructors for
+ :class:`datetime.date` and :class:`datetime.datetime` by using fast-path
+ constructors when not constructing subclasses. (Contributed by Paul Ganssle
+ in :issue:`32403`)
+
Build and C API Changes
=======================
@@ -936,6 +941,11 @@ Build and C API Changes
* Support for building ``--without-threads`` is removed.
(Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`31370`.).
+* Added C API support for timezones with timezone constructors
+ :c:func:`PyTimeZone_FromOffset` and :c:func:`PyTimeZone_FromOffsetAndName`,
+ and access to the UTC singleton with :c:data:`PyDateTime_TimeZone_UTC`.
+ Contributed by Paul Ganssle in :issue:`10381`.
+
Other CPython Implementation Changes
====================================