here is that "lockmode" is also public in Session.refresh().

entity returns without otherwise changing much [ticket:2824]

- rework the event system so that event modules load after their
targets, dependencies are reversed
- create an improved strategy lookup system for the ORM
- rework the ORM to have very few import cycles
- move out "importlater" to just util.dependency
- other tricks to cross-populate modules in as clear a way as possible

when loading mapped entities.   The function overhead of applying
a per-object deferred callable to an instance at load time was
significantly higher than that of just loading the data from the row
(note that ``defer()`` is meant to reduce DB/network overhead, not
necessarily function call count); the function call overhead is now
less than that of loading data from the column in all cases.  There
is also a reduction in the number of "lazy callable" objects created
per load from N (total deferred values in the result) to 1 (total
number of deferred cols).
[ticket:2778]

- went through examples/ and cleaned out excess list() calls

where an entity may be ``None`` without throwing an error.
[ticket:2640]

- paths now store Mapper + MapperProperty now instead of string key,
so that the parent mapper for the property is known, supports same-named
properties on multiple subclasses
- the Mapper within the path is now always relevant to the property
to the right of it.  PathRegistry does the translation now, instead
of having all the outside users of PathRegistry worry about it,
to produce a path that is much more consistent.  Paths are now
consistent with mappings in all cases.  Special logic to get at
"with_polymorphic" structures and such added also.
- AliasedClass now has two modes, "use_mapper_path" and regular;
"use_mapper_path" is for all those situations where we put an AliasedClass
in for a plain class internally, and want it to "path" with the
plain mapper.
- The AliasedInsp is now the first class "entity" for an AliasedClass,
and is passed around internally and used as attr._parententity
and such.  it is the AliasedClass analogue for Mapper.