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@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes Core and builtins +- A new type object, 'string', is added. This is a common base type + for 'str' and 'unicode', and can be used instead of + types.StringTypes, e.g. to test whether something is "a string": + isinstance(x, string) is True for Unicode and 8-bit strings. This + is an abstract base class and cannot be instantiated directly. + - Deprecated features of xrange objects have been removed as promised. The start, stop, and step attributes and the tolist() method no longer exist. xrange repetition and slicing have been |