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@@ -3,6 +3,23 @@ What's New in Python 2.2a3? Core +- The builtin dir() now returns more information, and sometimes much + more, generally naming all attributes of an object, and all attributes + reachable from the object via its class, and from its class's base + classes, and so on from them too. Example: in 2.2a2, dir([]) returned + an empty list. In 2.2a3, + + >>> dir([]) + ['__add__', '__class__', '__contains__', '__delattr__', '__delitem__', + '__eq__', '__ge__', '__getattr__', '__getitem__', '__getslice__', + '__gt__', '__hash__', '__iadd__', '__imul__', '__init__', '__le__', + '__len__', '__lt__', '__mul__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__repr__', + '__rmul__', '__setattr__', '__setitem__', '__setslice__', '__str__', + 'append', 'count', 'extend', 'index', 'insert', 'pop', 'remove', + 'reverse', 'sort'] + + dir(module) continues to return only the module's attributes, though. + - Overflowing operations on plain ints now return a long int rather than raising OverflowError. This is a partial implementation of PEP 237. You can use -Wdefault::OverflowWarning to enable a warning for |