Changes in Brython version 2.1.2
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New features
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- improved interface with Javascript libraries
- improve handling of methods such as __mul__, using __rmul__ of operand
- DOM attribute "class" is accessed/set by name "class_name"
- support of non-ASCII characters for variable names

Bug fixes
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- bug in generators
- bug with "raise"
- bug with int() or float() : int('hello') should raise an exception, not 
  return NaN
- bug with dir() without arguments
- bug with exec() when brython() is called without arguments
- bug in setattr()
- fix is_package issue in stdlib import function
- add __code__ attribute to classes and class methods
- bug in markdown.py

- issue #1: Only ascii characters are recognized 
- issue #217 : re.match returns incorrect result
- issue #254 : precedence of multiplication and division 
- issue #255: formatting of floats
- issue #257 : names are bound improperly inside functions
- issue #258 : browser.timer FR docs are not properly translated
- issue #259 : assignment to tuple fails in certain circumstances 
- issue #260 : error in collections module 
- issue #261 : relative imports doesn't work
- issue #263 : remove "s" from "values" in "need more than 1 values to unpack" 
- issue #264 : itertools.permutations() does not work with only one parameter
- issue #265 : empty string in string returns False 

Demos
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- add barcode demo by Carl Smith
- add SVG compass demo by Nicolas Pinault
- add a section for demos using Javascript libraries
- add demos with Rapahel (vectorial graphics) and Highcharts (interactive 
  charts)

Standard distribution
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Documentation
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- add static version (doc/en/static_index.html) so that pages can be 
  referenced by a URL : doc/en/static_index?page=focus_envents
- add links to Kiko's wiki pages in the Brython site home page
- translations into Spanish by Kiko Correoso
- replace "doc" and "win" by "document" and "window" in the examples
- add a recipe in the cookbook on SELECT elements and checkboxes
- in UI demo, replace random by __random (faster Javascript version)