From: Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:43:18 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add a NEWS item about function attributes.
X-Git-Tag: v2.1a1~253
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=573b54125d8bc2e78b161ac45ef223a475f9f073;p=python

Add a NEWS item about function attributes.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index eb16282ddc..40e22ebb23 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