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@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ What's New in Python 2.3 alpha 2?
Core and builtins
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+- If a new-style class defines neither __new__ nor __init__, its
+ constructor would ignore all arguments. This is changed now: the
+ constructor refuses arguments in this case. This might break code
+ that worked under Python 2.2. The simplest fix is to add a no-op
+ __init__: "def __init__(self, *args, **kw): pass".
+
- Through a bytecode optimizer bug (and I bet you didn't even know
Python *had* a bytecode optimizer :-), "unsigned" hex/oct constants
with a leading minus sign would come out with the wrong sign.