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@@ -360,9 +360,10 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
on the :exc:`IOError` exception when trying to open a directory
on POSIX platforms. (Noted by Jan Kaliszewski; :issue:`4764`.)
-* The Python tokenizer now translates line endings itself, so
- the :func:`compile` built-in function can now accept code using
- any line-ending convention.
+* The Python tokenizer now translates line endings itself, so the
+ :func:`compile` built-in function can now accept code using any
+ line-ending convention. Additionally, it no longer requires that the
+ code end in a newline.
* Extra parentheses in function definitions are illegal in Python 3.x,
meaning that you get a syntax error from ``def f((x)): pass``. In