method, and its interaction with result-row processing, now allows
the columns passed to the method to be positionally matched with the
result columns in the statement, rather than matching on name alone.
The advantage to this includes that when linking a textual SQL statement
to an ORM or Core table model, no system of labeling or de-duping of
common column names needs to occur, which also means there's no need
to worry about how label names match to ORM columns and so-forth.  In
addition, the :class:`.ResultProxy` has been further enhanced to
map column and string keys to a row with greater precision in some
cases.  fixes #3501
- reorganize the initialization of ResultMetaData for readability
and complexity; use the name "cursor_description", define the
task of "merging" cursor_description with compiled column information
as its own function, and also define "name extraction" as a separate task.
- fully change the name we use in the "ambiguous column" error to be the
actual name that was ambiguous, modify the C ext also

are now exercised within the normal unit test suite in both Python
2 and Python 3.
- remove the old testdocs.py runner and replace with test/base/test_tutorials.py
- use pytest's unicode fixer so that we can test for unicode strings
in both py2k/3k
- use py3k format overall for prints, exceptions
- add other fixers to guarantee deterministic results
- add skips and ellipses to outputs that aren't worth matching

The error message changed to:

`'<' not supported between instances of 'foo' and 'bar'`

function; the caller still passes in the "wrapper"
- move tests for wrap_callable() to be generic util tests
- changelog for pullreq github:204

didn't implement ``__slots__``, and therefore meant all subclasses
of that class didn't either, negating the rationale for ``__slots__``
to be in use.  Didn't cause any issue except on IronPython
which apparently does not implement ``__slots__`` behavior compatibly
with cPython.
Fixes #3494

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

pep-249 exception names linked to exception classes of an entirely
different name, preventing SQLAlchemy's own exception wrapping from
wrapping the error appropriately.
The SQLAlchemy dialect in use needs to implement a new
accessor :attr:`.DefaultDialect.dbapi_exception_translation_map`
to support this feature; this is implemented now for the py-postgresql
dialect.
fixes #3421

to start up listener collections; this pulls the overhead off of construction
and makes performance much like the descriptor version, while still allowing
slots.   Fix up some profiles.

allowing us to move to __slots__