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- mimetypes now recognizes more extensions and file types. At the
same time, some mappings not sanctioned by IANA were removed.
-Tools
-
- The "compiler" package has been brought up to date to the state of
- Python 2.2 bytecode generation.
+ Python 2.2 bytecode generation. It has also been promoted from a
+ Tool to a standard library package. (Tools/compiler still exists as
+ a sample driver.)
+
+- pydoc and inspect are now aware of new-style classes;
+ e.g. help(list) at the interactive prompt now shows proper
+ documentation for all operations on list objects.
+
+Tools
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