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Expand Up @@ -75,6 +75,15 @@ Important deprecations, removals or restrictions:
Improved Error Messages
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* Modules from the standard library are now potentially suggested as part of
the error messages displayed by the interpreter when a :exc:`NameError` is
raised to the top level. Contributed by Pablo Galindo in :gh:`98254`.

>>> sys.version_info
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'sys' is not defined. Did you forget to import 'sys'?

* Improve the error suggestion for :exc:`NameError` exceptions for instances.
Now if a :exc:`NameError` is raised in a method and the instance has an
attribute that's exactly equal to the name in the exception, the suggestion
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