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@@ -27,6 +27,13 @@ Core language, builtins, and interpreter fit in an int. In 1.6 and earlier, a negative long formatted via %u raised an error if it was too big to fit in an int. +- Dictionary objects have an odd new method, popitem(). This removes + an arbitrary item from the dictionary and returns it (in the form of + a (key, value) pair). This can be useful for algorithms that use a + dictionary as a bag of "to do" items and repeatedly need to pick one + item. Such algorithms normally end up running in quadratic time; + using popitem() they can usually be made to run in linear time. + Windows changes - select module: By default under Windows, a select() call |