Merged revisions 67898,67904-67907,67912,67918,67920-67921,67923-67924,67927,67930,67932,67943 via svnmerge from
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  r67898 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-21 15:00:53 -0600 (Sun, 21 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  compute DISTVERSION with patchlevel.py
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  r67904 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-22 14:44:58 -0600 (Mon, 22 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  less attitude
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  r67905 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-22 14:51:15 -0600 (Mon, 22 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fix #4720: the format to PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can now start with '|'
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  r67906 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-22 14:52:53 -0600 (Mon, 22 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  add NEWS note
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  r67907 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-22 16:12:19 -0600 (Mon, 22 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  silence compiler warning
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  r67912 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-23 06:37:21 -0600 (Tue, 23 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix missing "svn" command.
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  r67918 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-23 09:44:25 -0600 (Tue, 23 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Markup fix.
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  r67920 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-23 14:09:28 -0600 (Tue, 23 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  use a global variable, so the compiler doesn't optimize the assignment out
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  r67921 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-23 14:12:33 -0600 (Tue, 23 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  make global static
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  r67923 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-24 09:10:27 -0600 (Wed, 24 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  #4736 BufferRWPair.closed shouldn't try to call another property as a function
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  r67924 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-24 10:10:05 -0600 (Wed, 24 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  pretend exceptions don't exist a while longer
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  r67927 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-26 17:26:30 -0600 (Fri, 26 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  python version is included in file name now
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  r67930 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2008-12-26 22:19:48 -0600 (Fri, 26 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Issue #4740: Use HIGHEST_PROTOCOL in pickle test.
  (There is no behavior difference in 2.x because HIGHEST_PROTOCOL == 2)
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  r67932 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-12-27 00:36:10 -0600 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 5 lines

  Remove unnecessary casts related to unicode_decode_call_errorhandler.
  Make the _PyUnicode_Resize macro a static function.

  These changes are needed to avoid breaking strict aliasing rules.
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  r67943 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-12-27 04:02:59 -0600 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix bogus unicode tests in pickletester.
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  r67654 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-07 16:42:09 -0600 (Sun, 07 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4457: rewrite __import__() documentation.
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  r67676 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-08 20:03:03 -0600 (Mon, 08 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  specify how things are copied
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  r67677 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-08 20:05:11 -0600 (Mon, 08 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  revert unrelated change to installer script
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  r67681 | jeremy.hylton | 2008-12-09 15:03:10 -0600 (Tue, 09 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Add simple unittests for Request
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  r67692 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-12-10 18:03:42 -0600 (Wed, 10 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #1030250: correctly pass the dry_run option to the mkpath() function.
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  r67725 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-12 22:02:20 -0600 (Fri, 12 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fix incorrect example
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  r67746 | antoine.pitrou | 2008-12-13 17:12:30 -0600 (Sat, 13 Dec 2008) | 3 lines

  Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions when given an unicode string.
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  r67748 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-13 19:46:11 -0600 (Sat, 13 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  remove has_key usage
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  r67761 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-14 11:26:04 -0600 (Sun, 14 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fix missing bracket
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  r67784 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-15 02:33:58 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4446: document "platforms" argument for setup().
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  r67785 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-15 02:36:11 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4611: fix typo.
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  r67787 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-15 02:58:59 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4578: fix has_key() usage in compiler package.
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  r67788 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-15 03:07:39 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4568: remove limitation in varargs callback example.
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  r67802 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-12-15 16:29:14 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 4 lines

  #3632: the "pyo" macro from gdbinit can now run when the GIL is released.

  Patch by haypo.
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  r67832 | antoine.pitrou | 2008-12-17 16:46:54 -0600 (Wed, 17 Dec 2008) | 4 lines

  Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reports invalid elapsed times.
  Patch by Neil Schemenauer, very slightly modified.
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  r67848 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-18 20:28:56 -0600 (Thu, 18 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fix typo
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  r67849 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-18 20:31:35 -0600 (Thu, 18 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  _call_method -> _callmethod and _get_value to _getvalue
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  r67859 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-12-19 16:56:48 -0600 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 4 lines

  #4700: crtlicense.txt is displayed by the license() command and should be kept ascii-only.

  Will port to 3.0
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  r67862 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-19 20:48:02 -0600 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  copy sentence from docstring
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  r67863 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-19 20:51:26 -0600 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  add headings
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  r67864 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-19 20:57:19 -0600 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  beef up docstring
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  r67880 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 16:49:24 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  remove redundant sentence
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  r67882 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 16:59:49 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  add some recent releases to the list
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  r67885 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 17:48:54 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  silence annoying DeprecationWarning
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  r67889 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 19:04:32 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  sphinx.web is long gone
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  r67890 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 19:12:26 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  update readme
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  r67891 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 19:14:47 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  there are way too many places which need to have the current version added
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  r67892 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 19:29:32 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 9 lines

  Merged revisions 67809 via svnmerge from
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    r67809 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-15 21:54:45 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 1 line

    fix logic error
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  r67895 | neal.norwitz | 2008-12-21 08:28:32 -0600 (Sun, 21 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Add Tarek for work on distutils.
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new text writer.

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