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Add a NEWS item about function attributes.

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Barry Warsaw 2001-01-15 20:43:18 +00:00
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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