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  r77461 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-01-13 08:55:48 +0100 (mer., 13 janv. 2010) | 5 lines

  Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
  methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
  implementation based on stringlib's fast search.  Patch by Florent Xicluna.
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to be called a buffer).  Shares code with stringobject when possible.
Adds unit tests with common code that should be usable to test the PEPs
mutable buffer() and immutable bytes() types.

 http://bugs.python.org/issue1261