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yield is always a keyword.

enumerate() built-in added.

int() will now return a long instead of raising OverflowError if a number is too large.

built-in types support extending slicing syntax.

list.insert() changed to be consistent with negative slice indexing.

list.index() takes optional start, stop arguments.

Dictionaries gained a pop() method and .fromkeys() class method.

dict() constructor takes keyword arguments.

assert no longer checks debug flag.

Many type objects are now callable.

Built-in set, frozenset

Unifying int/long

Generator expressions

Function/method decorators

Multi-line imports

Conditional expressions

'with' statement

Absolute & relative imports

Unified try/except/finally

New generator features

Exceptions as new-style classes

The index method