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  r68532 | kristjan.jonsson | 2009-01-11 17:23:37 +0100 (So, 11 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Issue 4879: Allow buffering for HTTPResponse
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  r68542 | martin.v.loewis | 2009-01-12 09:11:24 +0100 (Mo, 12 Jan 2009) | 2 lines

  Issue #4893: Use NT threading on CE.
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  r68544 | kristjan.jonsson | 2009-01-12 10:20:34 +0100 (Mo, 12 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Update Misc/NEWS for issue 3582
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  r68545 | kristjan.jonsson | 2009-01-12 10:24:04 +0100 (Mo, 12 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Misc/NEWS for issue 4293
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  r68546 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-01-12 11:37:32 +0100 (Mo, 12 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Optimize heapq.nsmallest/nlargest for cases where n==1 or n>=size.
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  r68559 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-01-12 23:58:41 +0100 (Mo, 12 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Issue 1696199: Add collections.Counter().
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  r68560 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-01-13 00:36:55 +0100 (Di, 13 Jan 2009) | 6 lines

  #3720: Interpreter crashes when an evil iterator removes its own next function.

  Now the slot is filled with a function that always raises.

  Will not backport: extensions compiled with 2.6.x would not run on 2.6.0.
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  r68562 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-01-13 02:05:03 +0100 (Di, 13 Jan 2009) | 7 lines

  Simplify Counter() API.  Replace items keyword argument
  with a mapping.  Makes Counter() idempotent, makes update()
  API the same as Counter.__init__(), makes a more readable
  repr, makes the API more dict-like, and allows Steven
  Bethard's update() example to work.
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  r68565 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-01-13 04:49:43 +0100 (Di, 13 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Minor documentation tweaks and simpler update() example.
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  r68566 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-01-13 05:13:53 +0100 (Di, 13 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Fixup and simplify docstrings and doctests.
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  r68567 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-01-13 05:50:35 +0100 (Di, 13 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Speed-up __repr__.  Eliminate duplicate tests.  Use a from-irmport.
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  r68568 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-13 09:11:07 +0100 (Di, 13 Jan 2009) | 2 lines

  Fix call signature and markup.
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  r68569 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-01-13 09:38:14 +0100 (Di, 13 Jan 2009) | 7 lines

  Add table of idioms/patterns for using Counter objects.
  Improve the appearance and flow of the References section -- it used
  to have a box around it that wasn't distinct from the preceding code
  boxes and it had a weird bolding pattern and hanging indents that
  made the section disproportionately large.
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