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@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ XXX Planned XXX Release date: 14-Nov-2001
Type/class unification and new-style classes
+- dictionary() now accepts an iterable object producing 2-sequences.
+ For example, dictionary(d.items()) == d for any dictionary d. The
+ argument, and the elements of the argument, can be any iterable
+ objects.
+
- Methods of built-in types now properly check for keyword arguments
(formerly these were silently ignored). The only built-in methods
that take keyword arguments are __call__, __init__ and __new__.
@@ -31,6 +36,10 @@ Build
C API
+- New function PySequence_Fast_GET_SIZE() returns the size of a non-
+ NULL result from PySequence_Fast(), more quickly than calling
+ PySequence_Size().
+
New platforms
- Updated RISCOS port by Dietmar Schwertberger.