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| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 9 |
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@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes - The new builtin dictionary() constructor, and dictionary type, have been renamed to dict. This reflects a decade of common usage. +- dict() now accepts an iterable object producing 2-sequences. For + example, dict(d.items()) == d for any dictionary d. The argument, + and the elements of the argument, can be any iterable objects. + - New-style classes can now have a __del__ method, which is called when the instance is deleted (just like for classic classes). @@ -25,11 +29,6 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes instances of new-style classes that have a __dict__ (unless the base class forbids it). -- dictionary() now accepts an iterable object producing 2-sequences. - For example, dictionary(d.items()) == d for any dictionary d. The - argument, and the elements of the argument, can be any iterable - objects. - - Methods of built-in types now properly check for keyword arguments (formerly these were silently ignored). The only built-in methods that take keyword arguments are __call__, __init__ and __new__. |