that a Python descriptor is no longer used; repairs inspectability
of these methods including support for Sphinx documentation.

improved in conjunction with loader directives such as
:func:`.joinedload` and :func:`.contains_eager` such that if
two :meth:`.PropComparator.of_type` modifiers of the same
base type/path are encountered, they will be joined together
into a single "polymorphic" entity, rather than replacing
the entity of type A with the one of type B.  E.g.
a joinedload of ``A.b.of_type(BSub1)->BSub1.c`` combined with
joinedload of ``A.b.of_type(BSub2)->BSub2.c`` will create a
single joinedload of ``A.b.of_type((BSub1, BSub2)) -> BSub1.c, BSub2.c``,
without the need for the ``with_polymorphic`` to be explicit
in the query.
fixes #3256

ORM functions that are derived as "public factory" symbols, which
should assist with documentation tools being able to report on the
target module.
fixes #3218

:class:`.Query` object offers dramatic speed improvements when
fetching large numbers of column-oriented rows.
fixes #3176

should be taken

methods, classes, builtins, functools.partial(), everything known so far
- use get_callable_argspec() within ColumnDefault._maybe_wrap_callable, re: #2979

isn't appended to the list.  reflection makes use of this.

when presented with duplicate columns.  The behavior of emitting a
warning and replacing the old column with the same name still
remains to some degree; the replacement in particular is to maintain
backwards compatibility.  However, the replaced column still remains
associated with the ``c`` collection now in a collection ``._all_columns``,
which is used by constructs such as aliases and unions, to deal with
the set of columns in ``c`` more towards what is actually in the
list of columns rather than the unique set of key names.  This helps
with situations where SELECT statements with same-named columns
are used in unions and such, so that the union can match the columns
up positionally and also there's some chance of :meth:`.FromClause.corresponding_column`
still being usable here (it can now return a column that is only
in selectable.c._all_columns and not otherwise named).
The new collection is underscored as we still need to decide where this
list might end up.   Theoretically it
would become the result of iter(selectable.c), however this would mean
that the length of the iteration would no longer match the length of
keys(), and that behavior needs to be checked out.
fixes #2974
- add a bunch more tests for ColumnCollection

system would cause a recursion overflow due to usage of inspect.getargspec()
on it in order to detect a legacy calling signature for certain events,
and apparently there's no way to do this with a partial object.  Instead
we skip the legacy check and assume the modern style; the check itself
now only occurs for the SessionEvents.after_bulk_update and
SessionEvents.after_bulk_delete events.  Those two events will require
the new signature style if assigned to a "partial" event listener.
[ticket:2905]