[code-quality] [ANN] Astroid 1.3 released

[Torsten Marek]

Hello!

I'm happy to announce the availability of astroid 1.3.

Functional changes in this release are mostly bugfixes and small
improvements, the large change is that support for Python versions < 2.7
has been dropped, which allows us to support Python 2.7 and 3.3+ from a
single codebase, without relying on 2to3.

In addition to that, the distribution itself has been restructured to make
`python setup.py develop` work correctly.

Other important changes:
    * Various speed improvements. Patch by Alex Munroe.

    * Add pytest brain plugin. Patch by Robbie Coomber.

    * Only C extensions from trusted sources (the standard library)
      are loaded into the examining Python process to build an AST
      from the live module.

    * Path names on case-insensitive filesystems are now properly
      handled. This fixes the stdlib detection code on Windows.

    * Metaclass-generating functions like six.with_metaclass
      are now supported via some explicit detection code.

    * Fix a maximum recursion error occured during the inference,
      where statements with the same name weren't filtered properly.
      Closes pylint issue #295.

A new release of pylint will follow shortly.

Happy hacking!

// Torsten
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