From 573b54125d8bc2e78b161ac45ef223a475f9f073 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Barry Warsaw Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:43:18 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add a NEWS item about function attributes. --- Misc/NEWS | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index eb16282ddc2..40e22ebb233 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -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