Merge of descr-branch back into trunk.
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Core
+- TENTATIVELY, a large amount of code implementing much of what's
+ described in PEP 252 (Making Types Look More Like Classes) and PEP
+ 253 (Subtyping Built-in Types) was added. This will be released
+ with Python 2.2a1. Documentation will be provided separately
+ through http://www.python.org/2.2/. The purpose of releasing this
+ with Python 2.2a1 is to test backwards compatibility. It is
+ possible, though not likely, that a decision is made not to release
+ this code as part of 2.2 final, if any serious backwards
+ incompapatibilities are found during alpha testing that cannot be
+ repaired.
+
- Generators were added; this is a new way to create an iterator (see
below) using what looks like a simple function containing one or
more 'yield' statements. See PEP 255. Since this adds a new