RELEASED: Python 2.3a2

[Tim Peters]

[A.M. Kuchling]
> sequence[start:stop:stride] has been legal Python syntax since
> 1.4beta2, but only Numeric Python ever supported the stride argument.
> 2.3 changesPython's built-in sequence types to support strides; they never
> did before.
> Hey, at least no one will ask for a reverse method on strings any more...

Heh.  The correspondents in the "str.reverse" Feature Request weren't
persuaded that slicing was adequate (despite agreeing that it worked to
reverse a string):

http://sf.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=355470&func=detail&aid=494240