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@@ -90,6 +90,12 @@ Core
(These warnings currently don't conform to the warnings framework of
PEP 230; we intend to fix this in 2.2a2.)
+- Two new flags METH_NOARGS and METH_O are available in method definition
+ tables to simplify implementation of methods with no arguments and a
+ single untyped argument. Calling such methods is more efficient than
+ calling corresponding METH_VARARGS methods. METH_OLDARGS is now
+ deprecated.
+
- The UTF-16 codec was modified to be more RFC compliant. It will now
only remove BOM characters at the start of the string and then
only if running in native mode (UTF-16-LE and -BE won't remove a