Type/class unification and new-style classes
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-- Assignment to __class__ is disallowed if either the old and the new
+- Assignment to __class__ is disallowed if either the old or the new
class is a statically allocated type object (such as defined by an
extension module). This prevents anomalies like 2.__class__ = bool.
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- A new module, optparse, provides a fancy alternative to getopt for
- command line parsing. It is slightly modified version of Greg
+ command line parsing. It is a slightly modified version of Greg
Ward's Optik package.
- UserDict.py now defines a DictMixin class which defines all dictionary
- shelve.py now subclasses from UserDict.DictMixin. Now shelve supports
all dictionary methods. This eases the transition to persistent
- storage for scripts originally written with dictionaries in mind.
+ storage for scripts originally written with dictionaries in mind.
- A new package, logging, implements the logging API defined by PEP
282. The code is written by Vinay Sajip.