Changes in Brython version 2.1.3
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New features
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- support of str.encode and bytes.decode for most used encodings : ascii, 
  iso-8859-1, utf-8
- implement built-in function compile()
- improved implementations of bytes and bytearray
- add expandtabs to string module
- add support of "infinity" in py_float.py (eg float("-Inf"))
- add magic variable to make_dist; compact stdlib_paths.js
- add getfilesytemencoding() function to sys module
- set string.encode argument encoding default = 'utf-8' 
- add NotImplemented keyword 
- add code variables to builtin functions (used by inspect module)
- add additional docs and codes to builtin functions
- add attributes __repr__ and __str__ to bool() and object()
- convert if else to switch statement
- change implementation of open()

Bug fixes
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- issues with global variables in functions of imported modules
- bug in built-in function list() 
- JSObject __set__ bug
- improved implementation of compile() and of function attribute __code__
- bug in comparison of lists : with a==b, a>=b returned False
- bugs dealing with builtin help function/pydoc module
- bug with exception attribute "traceback"
- bug in generators when the "yield" is inside an "if" or "else" block
- bug with itertools.product : failed with CPython for product('abc', []) 
- fix HTMLTestRunner str/bytes decode issue

- issue #196 : implement parsing of complex numbers (1+2j) 
- issue #267 : `'123'.split('')` should raise a `ValueError`
- issue #268 : base64 encoding and decoding is not working
- issue #269 : dir function does not return a list of strings
- issue #270 : foreignObject is missing in SVG implementation
- issue #272 : built-in round() truncates instead of rounding
- issue #273 : function executed via set_timeout is ran outside try/except
- issue #274 : REGRESSION: Global assignment not working on import 
- issue #275 : string.split with keyword maxsplit fails on certain cases
- issue #276 : Using regular expression pattern, I cannot do a search

Demos
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Standard distribution
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- csv and configparser are supported

Documentation
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- update documentation with supported built-in classes and function
- replace "doc" by "document"