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@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ What's New in Python 2.3 alpha 2?
Core and builtins
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+- super(X, x): x may now be a proxy for an X instance, i.e.
+ issubclass(x.__class__, X) but not issubclass(type(x), X).
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- isinstance(x, X): if X is a new-style class, this is now equivalent
to issubclass(type(x), X) or issubclass(x.__class__, X). Previously
only type(x) was tested. (For classic classes this was already the