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  r61143 | barry.warsaw | 2008-03-01 03:23:38 +0100 (Sat, 01 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Bump to version 2.6a1
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  r61144 | barry.warsaw | 2008-03-01 03:26:42 +0100 (Sat, 01 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  bump idle version number
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  r61146 | fred.drake | 2008-03-01 03:45:07 +0100 (Sat, 01 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  fix typo
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  r61147 | barry.warsaw | 2008-03-01 03:53:36 +0100 (Sat, 01 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Add date to NEWS
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  r61150 | barry.warsaw | 2008-03-01 04:00:52 +0100 (Sat, 01 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Give IDLE a release date
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  r61151 | barry.warsaw | 2008-03-01 04:15:20 +0100 (Sat, 01 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  More copyright year and version number bumps
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  r61157 | barry.warsaw | 2008-03-01 18:11:41 +0100 (Sat, 01 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Set things up for 2.6a2.
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  r61165 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-02 07:28:16 +0100 (Sun, 02 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  It's 2.6 now.
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  r61166 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-02 07:32:32 +0100 (Sun, 02 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Update year.
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  r61167 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-02 07:44:08 +0100 (Sun, 02 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Make patchlevel print out the release if called as a script.
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  r61168 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-02 07:45:40 +0100 (Sun, 02 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  New default basename for HTML help files.
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  r61170 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-03-02 11:59:31 +0100 (Sun, 02 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Finish-up docs for combinations() and permutations() in itertools.
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  r61171 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-03-02 12:17:51 +0100 (Sun, 02 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Tighten example code.
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  r61172 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-03-02 12:57:16 +0100 (Sun, 02 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Simplify code for itertools.product().
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  r61173 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-03-02 13:02:19 +0100 (Sun, 02 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Handle 0-tuples which can be singletons.
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  r61176 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-02 14:41:39 +0100 (Sun, 02 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Make clear that the constants are strings.
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  r61177 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-02 15:15:04 +0100 (Sun, 02 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix factual error.
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  r61183 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-03-02 21:00:53 +0100 (Sun, 02 Mar 2008) | 4 lines

  Modify import of test_support so that the code can also be used with a
  stand alone distribution of bsddb that includes its own small copy of
  test_support for the needed functionality on older pythons.
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