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- Dictionary objects now support the "in" operator: "x in dict" means
the same as dict.has_key(x).
+- The update() method of dictionaries now accepts generic mapping
+ objects. Specifically the argument object must support the .keys()
+ and __getitem__() methods. This allows you to say, for example,
+ {}.update(UserDict())
+
- Iterators were added; this is a generalized way of providing values
to a for loop. See PEP 234. There's a new built-in function iter()
to return an iterator. There's a new protocol to get the next value