Before the change help(open) didn't return anything helpful but the doc string of io.OpenWrapper. Now it shows the user the documentation of io.open.

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  r59407 | armin.rigo | 2007-12-07 20:19:55 +0100 (Fri, 07 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  This is probably what was meant here.
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  r59410 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-12-08 05:38:23 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Be (just a bit :) more specific about release date.
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  r59411 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2007-12-08 05:49:22 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 3 lines

  Fix issue #1530.
  Return an error exit status if not all tests passes.
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  r59413 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-08 11:56:39 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix tpyo.
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  r59414 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-08 12:05:05 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix markup in whatsnew, use new directive in ACKS.
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  r59415 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-08 12:05:36 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix Eren's name.
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  r59416 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-08 12:23:13 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Add examples to the datetime documentation. Written for GHOP by "h4wk.cz".
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  r59417 | skip.montanaro | 2007-12-08 15:37:43 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Note that open() is the preferred way to open files (issue 1510).
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  r59418 | skip.montanaro | 2007-12-08 16:23:31 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  + "context manager"
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  r59419 | skip.montanaro | 2007-12-08 16:26:16 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  correct email address
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  r59420 | skip.montanaro | 2007-12-08 16:33:24 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 3 lines

  When splitting, avoid making a copy of the string if the split doesn't find
  anything (issue 1538).
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It prevents the XML RPC tests from blocking until the end of the world.
I think it's a backport candidate and other modules may benefit from the feature, too.

Somehow it went missing during the merge

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  r59377 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-06 01:24:23 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Add another GHOP student to ACKS.
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  r59378 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-06 01:56:53 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 5 lines

  Fix Issue 1045.
  Factor-out common calling code by simplifying the length_hint API.
  Speed-up the function by caching the PyObject_String for the attribute lookup.
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  r59380 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-06 02:52:24 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Diverse markup fixes.
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  r59383 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-06 10:45:39 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Better re.split examples.
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  r59386 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-06 14:15:13 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Fixed get_config_h_filename for Windows. Without the patch it can't find the pyconfig.h file inside a build tree.
  Added several small unit tests for sysconfig.
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  r59387 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-06 14:30:11 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Silence more warnings, _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE is already defined in pyconfig.h but several projects don't include it.
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  r59389 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-06 14:55:01 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Disabled one test that is failing on Unix
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  r59399 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-06 22:13:06 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 8 lines

  Several Windows related cleanups:
  * Removed a #define from pyconfig.h. The macro was already defined a few lines higher.
  * Fixed path to tix in the build_tkinter.py script
  * Changed make_buildinfo.c to use versions of unlink and strcat which are considered safe by Windows (as suggested by MvL).
  * Removed two defines from pyproject.vsprops that are no longer required. Both are defined in pyconfig.h and make_buildinfo.c doesn't use the unsafe versions any more (as suggested by MvL).
  * Added some more information about PGO and the property files to PCbuild9/readme.txt.

  Are you fine with the changes, Martin?
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  r59400 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-07 02:53:01 +0100 (Fri, 07 Dec 2007) | 4 lines

  Don't have the docs berate themselves.  Keep a professional tone.
  If a todo is needed, put it in the tracker.
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  r59402 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-07 10:07:10 +0100 (Fri, 07 Dec 2007) | 3 lines

  Increase unit test coverage of SimpleXMLRPCServer.
  Written for GHOP by Turkay Eren.
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  r59406 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-07 16:16:57 +0100 (Fri, 07 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Update to windows doc from Robert.
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(a) added GC support to the PySSL object
(b) move the call to _real_close() from __del__ methods in Python to
PySSL_dealloc().
(c) remove those __del__ methods -- this makes SSL and socket objects GC'able.

Silence more warnings, _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE is already defined in pyconfig.h but several projects don't include it.

(Next: update the whatsnew docs.)

line buffering.  The TextIOWrapper class no longer calls isatty() on
every write() call.

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  r59374 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-05 22:52:40 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Add Ross Light, a GHOP student, to ACKs.
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  r59375 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-05 22:57:25 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  The macros _WIN32, _WIN64 and _M_X64 are defined by the compiler. The VS 2008 IDE doesn't know about (some) of the macros and can display wrong information. In my case a section #ifdef _WIN64 was grayed out although the platform was x64. I've added the macros to pyproject.vsprops and x64.vsprops.
  I've also added a paragraph about the property files to the readme and fixed the order of pyupdate > pyinstrument.
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  r59343 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-05 08:02:47 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix typo.
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  r59347 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-05 13:31:44 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Fixed quoting and paths in the sqlite project file
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  r59348 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-05 13:45:11 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Fixed error in regrtest. I must have missed the spot.
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  r59350 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-05 13:49:14 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  merge -r59315:59316 from py3k: Fix issue #1553: An errornous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a SystemError
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  r59352 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-05 13:52:34 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Added msg to Misc/NEWS
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  r59354 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-12-05 14:27:20 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Spelling fix
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  r59356 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-05 18:56:50 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 3 lines

  Add examples to csv, pprint and traceback docs.
  Written by Ross for GHOP.
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  r59358 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-05 19:11:08 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Error checking was too aggressive (reported by Chris Tismer)
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  r59359 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-05 19:30:48 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Add examples to re docs. Written for GHOP by Dan Finnie.
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  r59366 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-05 20:49:21 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix markup.
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  r59367 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-05 20:57:54 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Updated documentation and build_tkinter.py script
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  r59368 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-05 21:03:57 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Another markup fix.
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  r59369 | ronald.oussoren | 2007-12-05 21:07:36 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 7 lines

  This "fixes" compilation issues for the Carbon._OSA module on OSX Leopard
  by purging bindings to OSA's debug API's. Those APIs we're completely
  unsupported on OSX 10.4 and are no longer available on OSX 10.5.

  Note that this patches a generated file. This is somewhat acceptable because
  regenerating the file is non-trivial and wouldn't use system headers anyway.
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  r59370 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-05 21:10:38 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Fixed bug #1557 by using popen.communicate() before popen.wait()
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This fixes them (by updating the "golden" output file).

we also flush stderr and stdout.  (XXX this may override errors if there's a problem
flushing.)

I replaced sys.maxint with sys.maxsize in Lib/*.py. Does anybody see a problem with the change on Win 64bit platforms? Win 64's long is just 32bit but the sys.maxsize is now 2**63-1 on every 64bit platform.
Also added docs for sys.maxsize.

I've modified the semantic of PyTraceBack_Print and sys.tracebacklimit slightly. Overfloats or values <= 0 are replaced with a default value to avoid infinite recursion and other issues.

using PyInt_CheckExact.

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  r59324 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-04 17:10:02 +0100 (Tue, 04 Dec 2007) | 3 lines

  Add "Python on Unix" document, mostly written for GHOP
  by Shriphani Palakodety.
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  r59325 | facundo.batista | 2007-12-04 17:31:53 +0100 (Tue, 04 Dec 2007) | 3 lines


  fma speedup by avoiding to create a Context. Thanks Mark Dickinson.
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  r59326 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-04 17:36:20 +0100 (Tue, 04 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Added warning that make install may overwrite or masquerade the default python binary. Use make altinstall instead.
  A native English speaker may want to rephrase the paragraph. ;)
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  r59327 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-04 17:50:28 +0100 (Tue, 04 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix duplicate label and a typo.
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  r59329 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-04 18:46:27 +0100 (Tue, 04 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Add tutorial and examples to logging docs, from GHOP student "oscar8thegrouch".
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  r59332 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-04 19:43:19 +0100 (Tue, 04 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  These optimizations create smaller and a bit faster code on my machine. I've also disabled an optimization that may be dangerous. Intrinsic functions conflict with errno.
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These optimizations create smaller and a bit faster code on my machine. I've also disabled an optimization that may be dangerous. Intrinsic functions conflict with errno.

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  r59322 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-04 16:52:14 +0100 (Tue, 04 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Added VS 2005 and VS 2008 to the search path for cabarc.exe
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