the warning here to all safe_reraise() cases in Python 2.
- Revisiting :ticket:`2696`, first released in 1.0.10, which attempts to
work around Python 2's lack of exception context reporting by emitting
a warning for an exception that was interrupted by a second exception
when attempting to roll back the already-failed transaction; this
issue continues to occur for MySQL backends in conjunction with a
savepoint that gets unexpectedly lost, which then causes a
"no such savepoint" error when the rollback is attempted, obscuring
what the original condition was.

The approach has been generalized to the Core "safe
reraise" function which takes place across the ORM and Core in any
place that a transaction is being rolled back in response to an error
which occurred trying to commit, including the context managers
provided by :class:`.Session` and :class:`.Connection`, and taking
place for operations such as a failure on "RELEASE SAVEPOINT".
Previously, the fix was only in place for a specific path within
the ORM flush/commit process; it now takes place for all transational
context managers as well.
fixes #2696

the exception to itself as the "cause"; while the Python 3 interpreter
is OK with this, it could cause endless loops in iPython.
fixes #3625
- add tests for reraise, raise_from_cause
- raise_from_cause is the same on py2k/3k, use just one function

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.

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