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  r82075 | jean-paul.calderone | 2010-06-18 16:00:17 -0400 (Fri, 18 Jun 2010) | 12 lines

  Revert r60115

  This revision introduced quoting for strings containing | based
  on a misunderstanding of the commonly used quoting rules used
  on Windows.

  | is interpreted by cmd.exe, not by the MS C runtime argv initializer.
  It only needs to be quoted if it is part of an argument passed through
  cmd.exe.

  See issue1300, issue7839, and issue8972.
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Ensure that stdout / stderr is inherited from the parent if stdout=PIPE /
stderr=PIPE is not used.

subprocess.Popen() and os._execvpe() support bytes program name. Add
os.supports_bytes_environ flag: True if the native OS type of the environment
is bytes (eg. False on Windows).

Create os.environb mapping and os.getenvb() function, os.unsetenv() encodes str
argument to the file system encoding with the surrogateescape error handler
(instead of utf8/strict) and accepts bytes, and posix.environ keys and values
are bytes.

This test was introduced by r80421 (issue #8391).

The fix: copy the environment variables instead of starting Python in an empty
environement. In an empty environment, the locale is C and Python uses ASCII
for the default file system encoding. The non-ASCII directory will be encoded
using surrogates, but Python3 is unable to load a module or package with a
filename using surrogates.

See issue #8242 for more information about running Python3 with a non-ascii
directory in an empty environement.

bytes strings for environment keys and values

using surrogatepass error handler to support surrogates in the message

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  r79344 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-23 15:36:45 +0100 (mar, 23 mar 2010) | 2 lines

  Silence test_subprocess.
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  r79346 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-23 16:05:30 +0100 (mar, 23 mar 2010) | 2 lines

  The standard error should be empty when the signal is killed, except on SIGINT.
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  r79350 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-23 20:19:16 +0100 (mar, 23 mar 2010) | 2 lines

  The SIGINT signal may happen earlier, during site.py initialization.
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  being defref'ed).
* Fixes another potential refleak of a reference to the gc
  module in the unlikely odd case where gc module isenabled or disable calls
  fail.
* Adds a unittest for the above case to verify behavior and lack of leaks.

  POSIX systems with a C extension module.  This is required in order for
  the subprocess module to be made thread safe.

  The pure python implementation is retained so that it can continue to be
  used if for some reason the _posixsubprocess extension module is not
  available.

  The unittest executes tests on both code paths to guarantee compatibility.

* Moves PyLong_FromPid and PyLong_AsPid from posixmodule.c into longobject.h.

Code reviewed by jeffrey.yasskin at http://codereview.appspot.com/223077/show

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  r78833 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-11 02:50:48 +0100 (jeu, 11 mar 2010) | 2 lines

  Revert r78830: realpath() should really be applied to sys.executable.
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  r78830 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-11 01:56:59 +0100 (jeu, 11 mar 2010) | 3 lines

  Fix the test_subprocess failure when sys.executable is meaningless: '' or a directory.
  It does not fix #7774.
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  r78736 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-06 20:43:41 +0100 (sam, 06 mar 2010) | 2 lines

  Skip test_send_signal, test_kill, test_terminate on win32 platforms, for 2.7a4 release.
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  r78759 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-07 13:21:36 +0100 (dim, 07 mar 2010) | 2 lines

  #2777: Enable test_send_signal, test_terminate and test_kill on win32 platforms.
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  r78761 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-07 16:27:39 +0100 (dim, 07 mar 2010) | 4 lines

  Do not fail if returncode is 0 on send_signal/kill/terminate, for win32 platforms.
  Do not hide the KeyboardInterrupt on POSIX platforms.
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  r78767 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-07 18:12:23 +0100 (dim, 07 mar 2010) | 2 lines

  #2777: Try hard to make Win7 buildbot happy...
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  r78788 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-08 11:58:12 +0100 (lun, 08 mar 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix syntax: "rc != None" -> "rc is not None"
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  r78789 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-08 11:59:33 +0100 (lun, 08 mar 2010) | 2 lines

  Replace the stderr logging with assertNotEqual(returncode, 0).
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  r78721 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-06 10:54:14 +0100 (sam, 06 mar 2010) | 2 lines

  #2777: Apply same recipe on win32, i.e. do not inherit file handles.
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  r78704 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-06 01:16:57 +0100 (sam, 06 mar 2010) | 2 lines

  #2777: Apply same recipe for test_terminate and test_kill, i.e. close or redirect fds.
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  r78701 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-05 20:31:21 +0100 (ven, 05 mar 2010) | 2 lines

  #2777: Handle fds more carefully to try to fix some x86-Linux failures (namely, neal bot and twisted bot).
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  r78673 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-05 02:05:55 +0100 (ven, 05 mar 2010) | 2 lines

  Let's use assertIsNone / assertIsNotNone. It's hype.
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  r78671 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-05 01:47:40 +0100 (ven, 05 mar 2010) | 3 lines

  Workaround #3137: Retry SIGINT if it is not received the first time.
  test_send_signal should not hang anymore on various Linux distributions.
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  r78661 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-04 20:40:48 +0100 (jeu, 04 mar 2010) | 2 lines

  Cleanup.
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  r78662 | florent.xicluna | 2010-03-04 22:31:58 +0100 (jeu, 04 mar 2010) | 2 lines

  #2777: Enable test_send_signal, test_kill and test_terminate on all platforms.
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And fix an oversight of changeset 78510.

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  r78532 | gregory.p.smith | 2010-02-28 18:53:24 -0800 (Sun, 28 Feb 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix the new test on windows (skip it, its posix only)
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  r78523 | gregory.p.smith | 2010-02-28 16:05:08 -0800 (Sun, 28 Feb 2010) | 3 lines

  Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
  os.waitpid and os.read system calls where appropriate.
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  r78508 | florent.xicluna | 2010-02-27 20:20:50 +0100 (sam, 27 fév 2010) | 2 lines

  Clean test_subprocess: use assertRaises, skipIf, skipUnless helpers and a custom helper assertStderrEqual.
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  r78509 | florent.xicluna | 2010-02-27 22:15:27 +0100 (sam, 27 fév 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix an oversight in r78508: p.wait() should be compared to 0
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  r78136 | ezio.melotti | 2010-02-10 23:40:33 +0200 (Wed, 10 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  #7712: add a temp_cwd context manager to test_support and use it in regrtest to run all the tests in a temporary directory, saving the original CWD in test_support.SAVEDCWD. Thanks to Florent Xicluna who helped with the patch.
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A patch from Dave Malcolm.

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  r73916 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-07-10 00:37:22 +0200 (ven., 10 juil. 2009) | 5 lines

  #6416: Fix compilation of the select module on Windows, as well as test_subprocess:
  PIPE_BUF is not defined on Windows, and probably has no meaning there.

  Anyway the subprocess module uses another way to perform non-blocking reads (with a thread)
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  r73825 | gregory.p.smith | 2009-07-03 18:49:29 -0700 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009) | 9 lines

  Use select.poll() in subprocess, when available, rather than select() so that
  it does not fail when file descriptors are large.  Fixes issue3392.

  Patch largely contributed by Frank Chu (fpmc) with some improvements by me.
  See http://bugs.python.org/issue3392.
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  r73826 | gregory.p.smith | 2009-07-03 18:55:11 -0700 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009) | 2 lines

  news entry for r73825
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Candidate for backporting to release31-maint as it is a bug fix and changes no
public API.

the source dist.

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  r69576 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-13 04:56:50 -0600 (Fri, 13 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  #1661108: note that urlsafe encoded string can contain "=".
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  r69579 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-13 05:06:59 -0600 (Fri, 13 Feb 2009) | 2 lines

  Fix warnings GCC emits where the argument of PyErr_Format is a single variable.
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  r69580 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-13 05:10:04 -0600 (Fri, 13 Feb 2009) | 2 lines

  Fix warnings GCC emits where the argument of PyErr_Format is a single variable.
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  r69589 | martin.v.loewis | 2009-02-13 14:11:34 -0600 (Fri, 13 Feb 2009) | 2 lines

  Move amd64 properties further to the top, so that they override
  the linker options correctly.
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  r69619 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-14 11:00:51 -0600 (Sat, 14 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  this needn't be a shebang line
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  r69620 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-14 11:01:36 -0600 (Sat, 14 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  #5179: don't leak PIPE fds when child execution fails.
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  r69633 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2009-02-15 03:19:48 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  Fixed typo.
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  r69703 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-02-16 16:42:54 -0600 (Mon, 16 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Issue 5229: Documentation for super() neglects to say what super() actually does
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  r69704 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-02-16 17:00:25 -0600 (Mon, 16 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  Add explanation for super(type1, type2).
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  r69728 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-17 18:22:55 -0600 (Tue, 17 Feb 2009) | 2 lines

  #5297: fix example.
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  r69729 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-17 18:25:13 -0600 (Tue, 17 Feb 2009) | 2 lines

  #5296: sequence -> iterable.
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  r69730 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-17 18:31:36 -0600 (Tue, 17 Feb 2009) | 2 lines

  #5268: mention VMSError.
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  r67511 | vinay.sajip | 2008-12-04 00:22:58 +0100 (Thu, 04 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  Issue #4384: Added logging integration with warnings module using captureWarnings(). This change includes a NullHandler which does nothing; it will be of use to library developers who want to avoid the "No handlers could be found for logger XXX" message which can appear if the library user doesn't configure logging.
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  r67536 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-12-04 21:21:09 +0100 (Thu, 04 Dec 2008) | 3 lines

  Adds a subprocess.check_call_output() function to return the output from a
  process on success or raise an exception on error.
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  r67537 | vinay.sajip | 2008-12-04 21:32:18 +0100 (Thu, 04 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  Took Nick Coghlan's advice about importing warnings globally in logging, to avoid the possibility of race conditions: "This could deadlock if a thread spawned as a side effect of importing a module happens to trigger a warning. warnings is pulled into sys.modules as part of the interpreter startup - having a global 'import warnings' shouldn't have any real effect on logging's import time."
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  r67543 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-12-05 03:27:01 +0100 (Fri, 05 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  rename the new check_call_output to check_output.  its less ugly.
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  r63724 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-05-26 22:22:14 +0200 (Mon, 26 May 2008) | 6 lines

  Fixes issue2791: subprocess.Popen.communicate leaked a file descripton until
  the last reference to the Popen instance was dropped.  Adding explicit
  close() calls fixes it.

  Candidate for backport to release25-maint.
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  r63726 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-26 22:43:24 +0200 (Mon, 26 May 2008) | 2 lines

  fix minor grammar typo
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  r63732 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-26 23:44:26 +0200 (Mon, 26 May 2008) | 2 lines

  remove duplication in test module
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  r63744 | lars.gustaebel | 2008-05-27 14:39:23 +0200 (Tue, 27 May 2008) | 3 lines

  Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
  when the TarFile is closed.
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  r63754 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-28 03:12:35 +0200 (Wed, 28 May 2008) | 2 lines

  update tutorial function with more appropiate one from Eric Smith
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  r63755 | mark.hammond | 2008-05-28 03:54:55 +0200 (Wed, 28 May 2008) | 2 lines

  bdist_wininst now works correctly when both --skip-build and --plat-name are specified.
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  r63757 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-28 13:21:39 +0200 (Wed, 28 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #2989: add PyType_Modified().
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  r63758 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-28 13:51:41 +0200 (Wed, 28 May 2008) | 2 lines

  fix spelling
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  r63760 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-28 17:41:36 +0200 (Wed, 28 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #2990: prevent inconsistent state while updating method cache.
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  r63775 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-29 09:18:17 +0200 (Thu, 29 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Two fixes in bytearray docs.
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  r63781 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-29 09:38:37 +0200 (Thu, 29 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #2988: add note about catching CookieError when parsing untrusted cookie data.
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  r63782 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-29 09:45:26 +0200 (Thu, 29 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #2985: allow i8 in XMLRPC responses.
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  r63787 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-29 16:35:39 +0200 (Thu, 29 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Revert #2990 patch; it's not necessary as Armin showed.
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  r63805 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-05-30 08:37:27 +0200 (Fri, 30 May 2008) | 1 line

  Issue 2784: fix leaks in exception exit.
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  r63806 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-05-30 08:49:47 +0200 (Fri, 30 May 2008) | 1 line

  Issue 2855: Fix obscure crasher by slowing down the entire module.  Mimics what was done to dictionaries in r59223.
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  r63807 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-05-30 09:16:53 +0200 (Fri, 30 May 2008) | 1 line

  Issue 2903:  Add __name__ in globals for namedtuple namespace.
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  r63808 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-30 09:54:16 +0200 (Fri, 30 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #2999: fix name of third parameter in unicode.replace()'s docstring.
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  r63818 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-30 21:12:13 +0200 (Fri, 30 May 2008) | 2 lines

  getloadavg() is not available on Windows.
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  r63819 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-30 21:17:29 +0200 (Fri, 30 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Better quote with single quotes.
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  r63823 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-30 22:44:39 +0200 (Fri, 30 May 2008) | 2 lines

  fix grammar
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  r63824 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2008-05-30 22:52:18 +0200 (Fri, 30 May 2008) | 5 lines

  Update the locale module alias table.

  Closes #3011.
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functions have been added to the subprocess module.

The fixer for this still needs to be written and proper Py3K deprecation
warnings for the functions that didn't make the transition need to be done in
2.6.

This is all part of trying to close issue #2872.

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  r63402 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-05-16 23:13:36 -0500 (Fri, 16 May 2008) | 1 line

  Fix-up docstring
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  r63405 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-05-17 02:17:34 -0500 (Sat, 17 May 2008) | 3 lines

  fix issue2381: test_subprocess fails if your sys.executable is on a
  path with a space in it.
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  r63411 | lars.gustaebel | 2008-05-17 11:50:22 -0500 (Sat, 17 May 2008) | 8 lines

  Replace signatures with optional arguments in square brackets with
  keyword arguments and the actual default values.
  Fix references that point nowhere or to the wrong place.
  Add description of the ENCODING module-level variable.
  Fix the URL pointing to the GNU tar manual.
  Remove two obsolete examples.
  Add an example on how to use a generator with TarFile.extractall().
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  r63457 | ronald.oussoren | 2008-05-18 15:09:54 -0500 (Sun, 18 May 2008) | 9 lines

  MacOSX: ctypes annotation in implementation of getproxies_macosx_sysconf

  getproxies_macosx_sysconf uses ctypes to call SystemConfiguration APIs. This
  checkin adds ctypes annotation to specify the right argument types for the
  API's that are used.

  This is needed to be able to use urllib on a 64-bit system, without
  annotations you'd get a hard crash.
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  r63467 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-05-18 22:03:46 -0500 (Sun, 18 May 2008) | 1 line

  Re-organize the increasingly long list of deprecated modules
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  r63468 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-19 06:55:54 -0500 (Mon, 19 May 2008) | 2 lines

  just MacOS (instead of MacOS 9)
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  r63480 | neal.norwitz | 2008-05-20 00:21:57 -0500 (Tue, 20 May 2008) | 1 line

  Add html package so it gets installed and more tests work (from installed copy)
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  r63507 | vinay.sajip | 2008-05-20 10:34:36 -0500 (Tue, 20 May 2008) | 1 line

  Fixed: #2914 (RFE for UTC support in TimedRotatingFileHandler) and #2929 (wrong filename used to delete old log files).
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  r63508 | vinay.sajip | 2008-05-20 10:37:22 -0500 (Tue, 20 May 2008) | 1 line

  Updated with fixes for #2914 and #2929.
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  r63516 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-05-21 02:31:31 -0500 (Wed, 21 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Add Robert Schuppenies.
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  r63534 | brett.cannon | 2008-05-21 22:18:35 -0500 (Wed, 21 May 2008) | 1 line

  Add Quentin Gallet-Gilles for (at least) a fixer for markupbase.
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  r63541 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-05-22 19:49:27 -0500 (Thu, 22 May 2008) | 1 line

  Docs for Issue 2819.
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  r62792 | brett.cannon | 2008-05-07 01:22:02 +0200 (Wed, 07 May 2008) | 2 lines

  When testing a module's __all__, we really don't care if it is deprecated.
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  r62799 | christian.heimes | 2008-05-07 01:42:58 +0200 (Wed, 07 May 2008) | 1 line

  Disabled some unit tests for the upcoming release. See #2777
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  r62800 | brett.cannon | 2008-05-07 01:44:04 +0200 (Wed, 07 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Create a TextMate directory in Misc to house a Python-Dev bundle.
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  r62386 | christian.heimes | 2008-04-19 04:23:57 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Added kill, terminate and send_signal to subprocess.Popen
  The bits and pieces for the Windows side were already in place. The POSIX side is trivial (as usual) and uses os.kill().
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  r62387 | georg.brandl | 2008-04-19 10:23:59 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix-up docs for revision 62386.
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  r62389 | georg.brandl | 2008-04-19 18:57:43 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  #2369: clarify that copyfile() doesn't take a target directory.
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  r62390 | georg.brandl | 2008-04-19 18:58:28 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  #2634: clarify meaning of env parameter to spawn/exec*e.
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  r62391 | georg.brandl | 2008-04-19 18:58:49 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  #2633: clarify meaning of env parameter.
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  r62392 | georg.brandl | 2008-04-19 18:59:16 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  #2631: clarify IMPORT_NAME semantics.
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  r62393 | georg.brandl | 2008-04-19 19:00:14 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  :func: et al. should *not* include the parens.
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  r62396 | mark.dickinson | 2008-04-19 20:51:48 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 5 lines

  Additional tests for math.pow, and extra special-case
  handling code in math.pow, in the hope of making all
  tests pass on the alpha Tru64 buildbot.
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  r62400 | mark.dickinson | 2008-04-19 21:41:52 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 3 lines

  Additional special-case handling for math.pow.
  Windows/VS2008 doesn't like (-1)**(+-inf).
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  r62401 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-04-19 21:47:34 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Complete documentation for errors argument of io's open and TextIOWrapper
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  r62402 | mark.dickinson | 2008-04-19 22:31:16 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Document updates to math and cmath modules.
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  r62407 | georg.brandl | 2008-04-19 23:28:38 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Update template for newest Sphinx.
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  r62409 | mark.dickinson | 2008-04-19 23:35:35 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 5 lines

  Correct documentation for math.pow;
  0**nan is nan, not 0.  (But nan**0 and 1**nan are 1.)

  Also fix minor typo: 'quite NaN' -> 'quiet NaN'
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  r62410 | mark.dickinson | 2008-04-19 23:49:22 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 4 lines

  Move asinh documentation to the proper place.
  Remove meaningless 'in radians' from inverse
  hyperbolic functions.
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  r62412 | mark.dickinson | 2008-04-20 03:22:30 +0200 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 5 lines

  Report additional diagnostic information in
  test_math, to help track down debian-alpha
  buildbot failure.
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  r62413 | mark.dickinson | 2008-04-20 03:39:24 +0200 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 3 lines

  FreeBSD doesn't follow C99 for modf(inf); so add explicit
  special-value handling to math.modf code.
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  r62414 | mark.dickinson | 2008-04-20 06:13:13 +0200 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 5 lines

  Yet more explicit special case handling to make
  math.pow behave on alpha Tru64.  All IEEE 754
  special values are now handled directly; only
  the finite**finite case is handled by libm.
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  r62418 | mark.dickinson | 2008-04-20 18:13:17 +0200 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 7 lines

  Issue 2662: Initialize special value tables dynamically (i.e. when
  cmath module is loaded) instead of statically. This fixes compile-time
  problems on platforms where HUGE_VAL is an extern variable rather than
  a constant.

  Thanks Hirokazu Yamamoto for the patch.
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  r62419 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-20 18:54:02 +0200 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Move description of math module changes; various edits to description of cmath changes
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