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  r74958 | ezio.melotti | 2009-09-20 10:10:39 +0300 (Sun, 20 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6881 - fixed wrong return type; improved the formatting
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as a resource for the 'release management' topic.

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  r74948 | thomas.heller | 2009-09-19 12:04:54 +0200 (Sa, 19 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Remove unused variable and static function to fix compiler warnings.
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  r74936 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-09-18 16:46:21 -0500 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  backport keyword argument support for bytearray.decode
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  r74937 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-09-18 16:47:27 -0500 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  typo
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  r74929 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-09-18 16:14:55 -0500 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  add keyword arguments support to str/unicode encode and decode #6300
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on python-dev from back in February.  Also consolidate
the autoconf and makefiles topics into one, and add tracker
and svn/hg topics.

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  r74925 | mark.dickinson | 2009-09-18 22:01:50 +0100 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 2 lines

  Use skipUnless to skip math module tests on non-IEEE 754 platforms.
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  r74921 | thomas.heller | 2009-09-18 22:05:44 +0200 (Fr, 18 Sep 2009) | 3 lines

  Issue #4606: Passing 'None' if ctypes argtype is set to POINTER(...)
  does now always result in NULL.
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  r74917 | thomas.heller | 2009-09-18 20:55:17 +0200 (Fr, 18 Sep 2009) | 3 lines

  Issue #5042: Structure sub-subclass does now initialize correctly with
  base class positional arguments.
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Also made small stylistic changes.

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  r74913 | mark.dickinson | 2009-09-18 19:35:42 +0100 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 2 lines

  Add Gawain Bolton to Misc/ACKS for his work on base 10 integer -> string optimizations.
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from _PyLong_Format.

Issue #6882: Import uuid creates zombies processes. I used a slightly different patch than the one attached to the issue, to be consistent with the style in the rest of the module.

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  r74868 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-17 12:23:02 +0200 (Do, 17 Sep 2009) | 2 lines

  String values should be shown with quotes, to avoid confusion with constants.
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  r74877 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-17 18:26:06 +0200 (Do, 17 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Remove duplicate doc of enable/disable_interspersed_args.
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  r74878 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-17 19:14:04 +0200 (Do, 17 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Make the optparse doc style a bit more standard: use standard description units for attrs/methods/etc., and use the correct referencing roles.
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  r74873 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-17 13:48:31 +0200 (Do, 17 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  #6844 followup: the warning when setting Exception.message was removed, do not test for it.
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(Only the new tests, the code had already been corrected due to an API change
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  r74869 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-17 13:28:09 +0200 (Do, 17 Sep 2009) | 4 lines

  Issue #6922: Fix an infinite loop when trying to decode an invalid
  UTF-32 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".
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  r74862 | brett.cannon | 2009-09-16 20:24:45 -0700 (Wed, 16 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Note in the intro to Extending... that ctypes can be a simpler, more portable solution than custom C code.
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