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  as described in section~\ref{section-slices} of this document.
  
  \item Dictionaries have a new method, \method{pop(\var{key}\optional{,
  \var{default}})}, that returns the value corresponding to \var{key}
  and removes that key/value pair from the dictionary.  If the requested
! key isn't present in the dictionary, \var{default} is returned if
! it's specified and \exception{KeyError} raised if it isn't.
  
  \begin{verbatim}
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  as described in section~\ref{section-slices} of this document.
  
+ \item A new built-in function, \function{sum(\var{iterable}, \var{start}=0)}, 
+ adds up the numeric items in the iterable object and returns their sum. 
+ \function{sum()} only accepts numbers, meaning that you can't use it
+ to concatenate a bunch of strings, for example.   (Contributed by Alex
+ Martelli.)
+ 
  \item Dictionaries have a new method, \method{pop(\var{key}\optional{,
  \var{default}})}, that returns the value corresponding to \var{key}
  and removes that key/value pair from the dictionary.  If the requested
! key isn't present in the dictionary, \var{default} is returned if it's
! specified and \exception{KeyError} raised if it isn't.
  
  \begin{verbatim}
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  by Robert Weber).
  
+ \item The new \function{gc.get_referents(\var{object})} function returns a
+ list of all the objects referenced by \var{object}.
+ 
  \item The \module{getopt} module gained a new function,
  \function{gnu_getopt()}, that supports the same arguments as the existing
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  Ward and Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale.)
  
+ \item The new \module{platform} module contains a number of functions
+ that try to determine various properties of the platform you're
+ running on.  There are functions for getting the architecture, CPU
+ type, the Windows OS version, and even  the Linux distribution version.
+ (Contributed by Marc-Andr\'e Lemburg.)
+ 
  \item The parser objects provided by the \module{pyexpat} module
  can now optionally buffer character data, resulting in fewer calls to
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  (Sticking with Python 2.2 or 2.1 will not make your applications any
  safer because there are known bugs in the \module{rexec} module in
! those versions.  I repeat, if you're using \module{rexec}, stop using
  it immediately.)
  
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  (Sticking with Python 2.2 or 2.1 will not make your applications any
  safer because there are known bugs in the \module{rexec} module in
! those versions.  To repeat: if you're using \module{rexec}, stop using
  it immediately.)