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@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes Core and builtins +- The built-ins slice() and buffer() are now callable types. The + types classobj (formerly class), code, function, instance, and + instancemethod (formerly instance-method), which have no built-in + names but are accessible through the types module, are now also + callable. The type dict-proxy is renamed to dictproxy. + - Fixed string.startswith and string.endswith builtin methods so they accept negative indices. [SF bug 493951] @@ -113,6 +119,10 @@ Core and builtins Extension modules +- The 'new' module is no longer an extension, but a Python module that + only exists for backwards compatibility. Its contents are no longer + functions but callable type objects. + - The bsddb.*open functions can now take 'None' as a filename. This will create a temporary in-memory bsddb that won't be written to disk. |