constructs are now importable from the "from sqlalchemy" namespace,
just like every other Core construct.
- The implicit conversion of strings to :func:`.text` constructs
when passed to most builder methods of :func:`.select` as
well as :class:`.Query` now emits a warning with just the
plain string sent.   The textual conversion still proceeds normally,
however.  The only method that accepts a string without a warning
are the "label reference" methods like order_by(), group_by();
these functions will now at compile time attempt to resolve a single
string argument to a column or label expression present in the
selectable; if none is located, the expression still renders, but
you get the warning again. The rationale here is that the implicit
conversion from string to text is more unexpected than not these days,
and it is better that the user send more direction to the Core / ORM
when passing a raw string as to what direction should be taken.
Core/ORM tutorials have been updated to go more in depth as to how text
is handled.
fixes #2992

N occurrences of a parameterized string.   This allows parameterized
warnings that can refer to their arguments to be delivered a fixed
number of times until allowing Python warning filters to squelch them,
and prevents memory from growing unbounded within Python's
warning registries.
fixes #3178

any speed improvements :(.   code is in a much better place to be run into
C, however
- The ``proc()`` callable passed to the ``create_row_processor()``
method of custom :class:`.Bundle` classes now accepts only a single
"row" argument.
- Deprecated event hooks removed:  ``populate_instance``,
``create_instance``, ``translate_row``, ``append_result``
- the getter() idea is somewhat restored; see ref #3175

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

view.  So copy collections.OrderedDict and use MutableMapping to set up
keys, items, values on our own OrderedDict.

Conflicts:
	lib/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py

:class:`.SynonymProperty` and :class:`.ComparableProperty`.
- The ``info`` parameter has been added as a constructor argument
to all schema constructs including :class:`.MetaData`,
:class:`.Index`, :class:`.ForeignKey`, :class:`.ForeignKeyConstraint`,
:class:`.UniqueConstraint`, :class:`.PrimaryKeyConstraint`,
:class:`.CheckConstraint`.

fixes #2963

sqlalchemy/orm, sqlalchemy/event, sqlalchemy/testing

Python version < 2.6.5, working around the
"no unicode keyword arg" bug as these args are passed along as
keyword args within some reflection processes.
fixes #3123