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| author | Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> | 2001-01-15 20:43:18 (GMT) |
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| committer | Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> | 2001-01-15 20:43:18 (GMT) |
| commit | 573b54125d8bc2e78b161ac45ef223a475f9f073 (patch) | |
| tree | 4122bfe09344421b15ae6f9685190f98bc4304b2 /Misc/NEWS | |
| parent | d6a9e84c8193076e776a1b419148f3043e2f6330 (diff) | |
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Add a NEWS item about function attributes.
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@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ What's New in Python 2.1 alpha 1? Core language, builtins, and interpreter +- Functions and methods now support getting and setting arbitrarily + named attributes (PEP 232). Functions have a new __dict__ + (a.k.a. func_dict) which hold the function attributes. Methods get + and set attributes on their underlying im_func. It is a TypeError + to set an attribute on a bound method. + - The xrange() object implementation has been improved so that xrange(sys.maxint) can be used on 64-bit platforms. There's still a limitation that in this case len(xrange(sys.maxint)) can't be |