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@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ What's New in Python 2.1 alpha 1? Core language, builtins, and interpreter +- Functions and methods now support getting and setting arbitrarily + named attributes (PEP 232). Functions have a new __dict__ + (a.k.a. func_dict) which hold the function attributes. Methods get + and set attributes on their underlying im_func. It is a TypeError + to set an attribute on a bound method. + - The xrange() object implementation has been improved so that xrange(sys.maxint) can be used on 64-bit platforms. There's still a limitation that in this case len(xrange(sys.maxint)) can't be |