* avgpp() and maxpp() no more crash on empty and 1-samples input fragment. They now work when peak-peak values are greater INT_MAX.
* ratecv() no more crashes on empty input fragment.
* Fixed an integer overflow in ratecv().
* Fixed an integer overflow in add() and bias() for 32-bit samples.
* reverse(), lin2lin() and ratecv() no more lose precision for 32-bit samples.
* max() and rms() no more returns negative result for 32-bit sample -0x80000000.
* minmax() now returns correct max value for 32-bit sample -0x80000000.
* avg(), mul(), tomono() and tostereo() now round negative result down and can return 32-bit sample -0x80000000.
* add() now can return 32-bit sample -0x80000000.

* avgpp() and maxpp() no more crash on empty and 1-samples input fragment. They now work when peak-peak values are greater INT_MAX.
* ratecv() no more crashes on empty input fragment.
* Fixed an integer overflow in ratecv().
* Fixed an integer overflow in add() and bias() for 32-bit samples.
* reverse(), lin2lin() and ratecv() no more lose precision for 32-bit samples.
* max() and rms() no more returns negative result for 32-bit sample -0x80000000.
* minmax() now returns correct max value for 32-bit sample -0x80000000.
* avg(), mul(), tomono() and tostereo() now round negative result down and can return 32-bit sample -0x80000000.
* add() now can return 32-bit sample -0x80000000.

Issue #13806: The size check in audioop decompression functions was too strict and could reject valid compressed data.
Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.

Issue #13806: The size check in audioop decompression functions was too strict and could reject valid compressed data.
Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.

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  r82495 | victor.stinner | 2010-07-03 15:44:22 +0200 (sam., 03 juil. 2010) | 10 lines

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    r82492 | victor.stinner | 2010-07-03 15:36:19 +0200 (sam., 03 juil. 2010) | 3 lines

    Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
    ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size
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  r82492 | victor.stinner | 2010-07-03 15:36:19 +0200 (sam., 03 juil. 2010) | 3 lines

  Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
  ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size
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  r82492 | victor.stinner | 2010-07-03 15:36:19 +0200 (sam., 03 juil. 2010) | 3 lines

  Issue #7673: Fix security vulnerability (CVE-2010-2089) in the audioop module,
  ensure that the input string length is a multiple of the frame size
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  r65012 | jesse.noller | 2008-07-16 15:24:06 +0200 (Wed, 16 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Apply patch for issue 3090: ARCHFLAGS parsing incorrect
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  r65035 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-16 23:19:28 +0200 (Wed, 16 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  #3045: fix pydoc behavior for TEMP path with spaces.
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  r65037 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-16 23:31:41 +0200 (Wed, 16 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  #1608818: errno can get set by every call to readdir().
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  r65038 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-17 00:04:20 +0200 (Thu, 17 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  #3305: self->stream can be NULL.
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  r65039 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-17 00:09:17 +0200 (Thu, 17 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  #3345: fix docstring.
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  r65040 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-17 00:33:18 +0200 (Thu, 17 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  #3312: fix two sqlite3 crashes.
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  r65048 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-17 01:35:54 +0200 (Thu, 17 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  #3388: add a paragraph about using "with" for file objects.
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  r65057 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-07-17 05:13:05 +0200 (Thu, 17 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  news note for r63052
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  r65077 | jesse.noller | 2008-07-17 23:01:05 +0200 (Thu, 17 Jul 2008) | 3 lines

  Fix issue 3395, update _debugInfo to be _debug_info
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  r65091 | ronald.oussoren | 2008-07-18 07:48:03 +0200 (Fri, 18 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Last bit of a fix for issue3381 (addon for my patch in r65061)
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  r65092 | vinay.sajip | 2008-07-18 10:59:06 +0200 (Fri, 18 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging configuration files. Thanks to Philip Jenvey for the patch.
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  r65093 | vinay.sajip | 2008-07-18 11:00:00 +0200 (Fri, 18 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging configuration files. Thanks to Philip Jenvey for the patch.
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  r65094 | vinay.sajip | 2008-07-18 11:00:35 +0200 (Fri, 18 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging configuration files. Thanks to Philip Jenvey for the patch.
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  r65095 | vinay.sajip | 2008-07-18 11:01:10 +0200 (Fri, 18 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging configuration files. Thanks to Philip Jenvey for the patch.
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  r65097 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-18 12:20:59 +0200 (Fri, 18 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Remove duplicate entry in __all__.
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  r65098 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-18 12:29:30 +0200 (Fri, 18 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Correct attribute name.
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  r65099 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-18 13:15:06 +0200 (Fri, 18 Jul 2008) | 3 lines

  Document the different meaning of precision for {:f} and {:g}.
  Also document how inf and nan are formatted. #3404.
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  r65127 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-19 02:42:03 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Improve accuracy of gamma test function
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  r65128 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-19 02:43:00 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Add recipe to the itertools docs.
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  r65131 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-19 12:08:55 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  #3378: in case of no memory, don't leak even more memory. :)
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  r65133 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-19 14:39:10 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 3 lines

  #3302: fix segfaults when passing None for arguments that can't
  be NULL for the C functions.
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  r65134 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-19 14:46:12 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  #3303: fix crash with invalid Py_DECREF in strcoll().
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  r65135 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-19 15:00:22 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 3 lines

  #3319: don't raise ZeroDivisionError if number of rounds is so
  low that benchtime is zero.
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  r65136 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-19 15:09:42 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 3 lines

  #3323: mention that if inheriting from a class without __slots__,
  the subclass will have a __dict__ available too.
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  r65139 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-19 15:48:44 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Add ordering info for findall and finditer.
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  r65149 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-20 01:21:57 +0200 (Sun, 20 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Fix compress() recipe in docs to use itertools.
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  r65150 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-20 01:58:47 +0200 (Sun, 20 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Clean-up itertools docs and recipes.
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  r65151 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-07-20 02:22:08 +0200 (Sun, 20 Jul 2008) | 9 lines

  fix issue3120 - don't truncate handles on 64-bit Windows.

  This is still messy, realistically PC/_subprocess.c should never cast pointers
  to python numbers and back at all.

  I don't have a 64-bit windows build environment because microsoft apparently
  thinks that should cost money.  Time to watch the buildbots.  It builds and
  passes tests on 32-bit windows.
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  r65155 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-20 13:50:29 +0200 (Sun, 20 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  #926501: add info where to put the docstring.
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  r65158 | neal.norwitz | 2008-07-20 21:35:23 +0200 (Sun, 20 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Fix a couple of names in error messages that were wrong
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  r65159 | neal.norwitz | 2008-07-20 22:39:36 +0200 (Sun, 20 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Fix misspeeld method name (negative)
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  r65176 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-07-21 23:36:24 +0200 (Mon, 21 Jul 2008) | 4 lines

  Increment version number in NEWS file, and move items that were added after 2.6b2.

  (I thought there was a script to automate this kind of updates)
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  r65177 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-07-22 00:00:38 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 5 lines

  Issue2378: pdb would delete free variables when stepping into a class statement.

  The problem was introduced by r53954, the correction is to restore the symmetry between
  PyFrame_FastToLocals and PyFrame_LocalsToFast
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  r65178 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-22 00:05:34 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  don't use assert statement
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  r65183 | ronald.oussoren | 2008-07-22 09:06:00 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix buglet in fix for issue3381
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  r65184 | ronald.oussoren | 2008-07-22 09:06:33 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix build issue on OSX 10.4, somehow this wasn't committed before.
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  r65187 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-22 20:54:02 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Remove out-of-date section on Exact/Inexact.
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  r65188 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-22 21:00:47 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Tuples now have both count() and index().
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  r65189 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-22 21:03:05 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Fix credits for math.sum()
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  r65190 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-22 21:18:50 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  One more attribution.
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  r65192 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-23 01:44:37 +0200 (Wed, 23 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  remove unneeded import
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  r65194 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-23 15:25:06 +0200 (Wed, 23 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  use isinstance
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  r64623 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-01 21:51:54 +0200 (Tue, 01 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  write a short little section for multiprocessing; it still needs help
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  r64640 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-01 22:56:03 +0200 (Tue, 01 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Add a comment about incref'ing w.
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  r64665 | jesse.noller | 2008-07-02 18:56:51 +0200 (Wed, 02 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Add #!/usr/bin/env python for ben
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  r64687 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-07-03 14:50:03 +0200 (Thu, 03 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Tweak wording
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  r64689 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-03 14:57:35 +0200 (Thu, 03 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  lowercase glossary term
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  r64690 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-03 15:01:17 +0200 (Thu, 03 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  let the term be linked
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  r64719 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-05 04:11:55 +0200 (Sat, 05 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Update comment on prediction macros.
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  r64721 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-05 12:07:18 +0200 (Sat, 05 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix tabs.
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  r64735 | mark.dickinson | 2008-07-05 17:25:48 +0200 (Sat, 05 Jul 2008) | 3 lines

  Minor rewrite of cmath_log to work around a Sun compiler bug.  See issue
  #3168.
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  r64742 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-05 18:29:38 +0200 (Sat, 05 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  make regrtest aware of the lib2to3 resource
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  r64744 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-05 18:43:45 +0200 (Sat, 05 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Keep below 80 chars.
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  r64745 | facundo.batista | 2008-07-05 21:19:50 +0200 (Sat, 05 Jul 2008) | 3 lines


  Issue 3289.  Removed two lines that ended doing nothing.
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  r64746 | facundo.batista | 2008-07-05 22:39:59 +0200 (Sat, 05 Jul 2008) | 4 lines


  Issue #3239. Differentiate the ascii call from the curses one and
  the builtin one.
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  r64756 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-07-06 09:16:40 +0200 (Sun, 06 Jul 2008) | 3 lines

  - Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
    interrupted by a signal.
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  r64757 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-06 14:39:09 +0200 (Sun, 06 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  remove test_compact_freelists from test_sys
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  r64758 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-07-06 19:06:29 +0200 (Sun, 06 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  fix issue3304 - remove an incorrect PyMem_Free in fileio_init
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  r64759 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-06 19:36:20 +0200 (Sun, 06 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix opensearch template.
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  r64760 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-07-06 19:43:16 +0200 (Sun, 06 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Wording fix
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  r64761 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-07-06 19:44:17 +0200 (Sun, 06 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Add two items; rewrap paragraph
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  r64767 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-07-07 06:31:58 +0200 (Mon, 07 Jul 2008) | 4 lines

  - Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile itererator to release its internal lock
    properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
    Prevents a deadlock.
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  r64768 | josiah.carlson | 2008-07-07 06:51:46 +0200 (Mon, 07 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Fixed bugs 760475, 953599, and 1519.
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  r64769 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-07-07 06:54:31 +0200 (Mon, 07 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Add commented out #_sha256 and #_sha512 lines per issue 3183.
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  r64771 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-07-07 07:09:12 +0200 (Mon, 07 Jul 2008) | 4 lines

  - Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
    redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
    default https port (443).
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  r64772 | skip.montanaro | 2008-07-07 13:16:14 +0200 (Mon, 07 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Correct grammar.
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  r64774 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-07-07 18:51:09 +0200 (Mon, 07 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Fix example to match text
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  r64775 | facundo.batista | 2008-07-07 19:02:59 +0200 (Mon, 07 Jul 2008) | 3 lines


  Issue 3306. Better control for a lenght in findmax() function.
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  r64788 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-08 09:05:23 +0200 (Tue, 08 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Add missing ABCs to list.
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  r64793 | nick.coghlan | 2008-07-08 16:21:42 +0200 (Tue, 08 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Add missing NEWS and ACK entries for r64791
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  r64835 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-10 11:31:08 +0200 (Thu, 10 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Issue 3287: Raise correct exception for float inputs.
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  r64836 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-10 12:28:41 +0200 (Thu, 10 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Use operator.index() instead of n.__index__().
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  r64475 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-06-22 22:29:28 -0500 (Sun, 22 Jun 2008) | 1 line

  Issue 3161: Missing import and test.
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  r64544 | georg.brandl | 2008-06-26 16:12:55 -0500 (Thu, 26 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  Use newer versions of externals.
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  r64545 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-06-26 16:23:30 -0500 (Thu, 26 Jun 2008) | 1 line

  add a htmlview directive
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  r64550 | brett.cannon | 2008-06-26 19:32:16 -0500 (Thu, 26 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  Ignore .pyc and .pyo files.
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  r64557 | mark.dickinson | 2008-06-27 05:11:52 -0500 (Fri, 27 Jun 2008) | 3 lines

  Remove trailing 'L's from numerator and denominator in the
  repr() of a Fraction instance.
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  r64558 | mark.dickinson | 2008-06-27 06:03:21 -0500 (Fri, 27 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  Add Jean Brouwers for his work on math.sum
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  r64565 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-06-27 16:34:24 -0500 (Fri, 27 Jun 2008) | 1 line

  Fix whitespace in example code.
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  r64570 | hyeshik.chang | 2008-06-27 20:04:31 -0500 (Fri, 27 Jun 2008) | 8 lines

  Give information for compililation of _multiprocessing.SemLock on FreeBSD:

  FreeBSD's P1003.1b semaphore support is highly experimental and
  it's disabled by default.  Even if a user loads the experimental
  kernel module manually, _multiprocessing doesn't work correctly due
  to several known incompatibilities around sem_unlink and sem_getvalue,
  yet.
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  r64577 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-06-28 17:16:53 -0500 (Sat, 28 Jun 2008) | 1 line

  Issue 3230:  Do not the set specific size macro.
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  r64582 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-06-28 18:06:05 -0500 (Sat, 28 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  convert test_audioop to unittest. Thanks to Giampaolo Rodola.
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  r64583 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-06-28 18:06:49 -0500 (Sat, 28 Jun 2008) | 1 line

  rewrap
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  r64585 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-06-28 18:35:31 -0500 (Sat, 28 Jun 2008) | 1 line

  fix typo
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  r64590 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-06-29 08:43:07 -0500 (Sun, 29 Jun 2008) | 1 line

  reinstate the ending backtick. thanks Nick :)
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  r64592 | vinay.sajip | 2008-06-29 16:25:28 -0500 (Sun, 29 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  Removed out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and
  used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
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  r64593 | vinay.sajip | 2008-06-29 16:27:15 -0500 (Sun, 29 Jun 2008) | 1 line

  Updated to reflect change in logging.config to remove out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and the use of issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.
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  r64625 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-01 14:59:00 -0500 (Tue, 01 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Add a link to PEP 324.
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  r64630 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-01 15:18:10 -0500 (Tue, 01 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  #3216: fix Execute's parameter description.
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  r64638 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-01 15:50:02 -0500 (Tue, 01 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  #1410739: add a footnote about "is" and "unusual" behavior.
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  r64647 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-01 18:33:06 -0500 (Tue, 01 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  add ABC to the glossary
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  r64655 | mark.dickinson | 2008-07-02 04:37:01 -0500 (Wed, 02 Jul 2008) | 7 lines

  Replace occurrences of '\d' with '[0-9]' in Decimal regex, to make sure
  that the behaviour of Decimal doesn't change if/when re.UNICODE becomes
  assumed in Python 3.0.

  Also add a check that alternative Unicode digits (e.g. u'\N{FULLWIDTH
  DIGIT ONE}') are *not* accepted in a numeric string.
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  r64656 | nick.coghlan | 2008-07-02 08:09:19 -0500 (Wed, 02 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Issue 3190: pydoc now hides module __package__ attributes
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  r64663 | jesse.noller | 2008-07-02 11:44:09 -0500 (Wed, 02 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Reenable the manager tests with Amaury's threading fix
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  r64664 | facundo.batista | 2008-07-02 11:52:55 -0500 (Wed, 02 Jul 2008) | 4 lines


  Issue #449227: Now with the rlcompleter module, callable objects are
  added a '(' when completed.
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  r61189 | brett.cannon | 2008-03-03 01:38:58 +0100 (Mon, 03 Mar 2008) | 5 lines

  Refactor test_logging to use unittest. This should finally solve the flakiness
  issues.

  Thanks to Antoine Pitrou for the patch.
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  r61190 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-03-03 02:27:03 +0100 (Mon, 03 Mar 2008) | 3 lines

  compile.c always emits END_FINALLY after WITH_CLEANUP, so predict that in
  ceval.c. This is worth about a .03-.04us speedup on a simple with block.
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  r61192 | brett.cannon | 2008-03-03 03:41:40 +0100 (Mon, 03 Mar 2008) | 4 lines

  Move test_largefile over to using 'with' statements for open files.

  Also rename the driver function to test_main() instead of main_test().
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  r61194 | brett.cannon | 2008-03-03 04:24:48 +0100 (Mon, 03 Mar 2008) | 3 lines

  Add a note in the main test class' docstring that the order of execution of the
  tests is important.
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  r61195 | brett.cannon | 2008-03-03 04:26:43 +0100 (Mon, 03 Mar 2008) | 3 lines

  Add a note in the main test class' docstring that the order of execution of the
  tests is important.
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  r61198 | brett.cannon | 2008-03-03 05:19:29 +0100 (Mon, 03 Mar 2008) | 4 lines

  Add test_main() functions to various tests where it was simple to do. Done so
  that regrtest can execute the test_main() directly instead of relying on import
  side-effects.
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  r61199 | neal.norwitz | 2008-03-03 05:37:45 +0100 (Mon, 03 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Only DECREF if ret != NULL
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that regrtest can execute the test_main() directly instead of relying on import
side-effects.

No detailed change log; just check out the change log for the py3k-pep3137
branch.  The most obvious changes:

  - str8 renamed to bytes (PyString at the C level);
  - bytes renamed to buffer (PyBytes at the C level);
  - PyString and PyUnicode are no longer compatible.

I.e. we now have an immutable bytes type and a mutable bytes type.

The behavior of PyString was modified quite a bit, to make it more
bytes-like.  Some changes are still on the to-do list.

There's one major and one minor category still unfixed:
doctests are the major category (and I hope to be able to augment the
refactoring tool to refactor bona fide doctests soon);
other code generating print statements in strings is the minor category.

(Oh, and I don't know if the compiler package works.)

number of tests, all because of the codecs/_multibytecodecs issue described
here (it's not a Py3K issue, just something Py3K discovers):
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/064051.html

Hye-Shik Chang promised to look for a fix, so no need to fix it here. The
tests that are expected to break are:

test_codecencodings_cn
test_codecencodings_hk
test_codecencodings_jp
test_codecencodings_kr
test_codecencodings_tw
test_codecs
test_multibytecodec

This merge fixes an actual test failure (test_weakref) in this branch,
though, so I believe merging is the right thing to do anyway.

 This patch adds a-LAW encoding to audioop and replaces the old
u-LAW encoding/decoding code with the current code from sox.

Possible issues: the code from sox uses int16_t.

Code by Lars Immisch

imports e.g. test_support must do so using an absolute package name
such as "import test.test_support" or "from test import test_support".

This also updates the README in Lib/test, and gets rid of the
duplicate data dirctory in Lib/test/data (replaced by
Lib/email/test/data).

Now Tim and Jack can have at it. :)

mostly changes of / operators into //.  Once or twice I did more or
less than recommended.

'verify' iff it's used by a test module...

and replaces them with a new API verify(). As a result the regression
suite will also perform its tests in optimization mode.

Written by Marc-Andre Lemburg. Copyright assigned to Guido van Rossum.

Use != instead of <> since <> is documented as "obsolescent".
Use "is" and "is not" when comparing with None or type objects.