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Put core language changes in a separate section from module changes.
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@ -143,6 +143,30 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
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(Contributed by Fredrik Johansson, Victor Stinner, Raymond Hettinger,
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and Mark Dickinson; :issue:`3439`.)
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* The fields in :func:`format` strings can now be automatically
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numbered::
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>>> 'Sir {} of {}'.format('Gallahad', 'Camelot')
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'Sir Gallahad of Camelot'
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Formerly, the string would have required numbered fields such as:
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``'Sir {0} of {1}'``.
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(Contributed by Eric Smith; :issue:`5237`.)
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* ``round(x, n)`` now returns an integer if *x* is an integer.
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Previously it returned a float::
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>>> round(1123, -2)
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1100
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(Contributed by Mark Dickinson; :issue:`4707`.)
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.. ======================================================================
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New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules
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=====================================
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* Added a :class:`collections.Counter` class to support convenient
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counting of unique items in a sequence or iterable::
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@ -180,17 +204,6 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
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(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger and Mark Dickinson.)
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* The fields in :func:`format` strings can now be automatically
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numbered::
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>>> 'Sir {} of {}'.format('Gallahad', 'Camelot')
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'Sir Gallahad of Camelot'
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Formerly, the string would have required numbered fields such as:
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``'Sir {0} of {1}'``.
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(Contributed by Eric Smith; :issue:`5237`.)
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* The :mod:`itertools` module grew two new functions. The
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:func:`itertools.combinations_with_replacement` function is one of
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four for generating combinatorics including permutations and Cartesian
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(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger; :issue:`1818`.)
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* ``round(x, n)`` now returns an integer if *x* is an integer.
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Previously it returned a float::
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>>> round(1123, -2)
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1100
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(Contributed by Mark Dickinson; :issue:`4707`.)
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* The :func:`re.sub`, :func:`re.subn` and :func:`re.split` functions now
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accept a flags parameter.
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Optimizations
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-------------
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=============
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Major performance enhancements have been added:
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Apart from the performance improvements this change should be invisible to
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end users, with one exception: for testing and debugging purposes there's a
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new :class:`structseq` ``sys.int_info`` that provides information about the
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new :attr:`sys.int_info` that provides information about the
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internal format, giving the number of bits per digit and the size in bytes
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of the C type used to store each digit::
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