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• Unifying types and classes in Python 2.2

  ...help from Python's parser than we can currently get. I hope to fix this in a future Python release by making the parser recognize super. In the mean time, here's a trick you can apply. We can create a class variable named __super that has "binding" behavior. (Binding behavior is a new concept in Python 2.2, but it formalizes a well-known concept from classic Python: the transformation from an unbound method to a bound method when it is accessed via the getattr operation on an instanc...

• Notes

  ...helper(x): return str(x) if type(str) != type(''): str = helper(str) return str.strip() Under the old rules, the name str in helper() is bound to the builtin function str(). Under the new rules, it will be bound to the argument named str and an error will occur when helper() is called. The compiler will report a SyntaxError if "from ... import *" occurs in a function or class scope. The language reference has documented that this case is illegal, but the com...

• What's New In Python 3.0

  What's New In Python 3.0 (editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.) What's New in Python 3.0 final Release date: 03-Dec-2008 Core and Builtins Issue #3996: On Windows, the PyOS_CheckStack function would cause the interpreter to abort ("Fatal Python error: Could not reset the stack!") instead of throwing a MemoryError. Issue #3689: The list reversed iterator now supports __length_hint__ instead of __len__. Behavior now matches other reversed ite...

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