The repr() of a string now contains printable Unicode characters unescaped.
The new ascii() builtin can be used to get a repr() with only ASCII characters in it.

PEP and patch were written by Atsuo Ishimoto.

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  r64130 | georg.brandl | 2008-06-11 19:57:44 +0200 (Wed, 11 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  Clarify what ":errorhandler" refers to.
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Correct the exported symbol for extension modules built by distutils

with non-ascii characters.

This is the simple fix, which uses the FileSystemEncoding.
Replacing all the char* with unicode strings is a major rewrite,
and needs more thinking.

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  r64123 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-06-11 11:50:57 -0500 (Wed, 11 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  fix Windows building for multiprocessing
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  r64104 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-06-10 21:40:25 -0500 (Tue, 10 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  add the multiprocessing package to fulfill PEP 371
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  r64117 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-06-11 07:26:31 -0500 (Wed, 11 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  fix import of multiprocessing by juggling imports
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  r64090 | armin.ronacher | 2008-06-10 15:52:19 -0500 (Tue, 10 Jun 2008) | 3 lines

  Documented the new AST constructor.
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  r64002 | travis.oliphant | 2008-06-07 00:33:21 +0200 (Sat, 07 Jun 2008) | 1 line

  Add long double check support to configure test.
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  r64003 | travis.oliphant | 2008-06-07 00:39:47 +0200 (Sat, 07 Jun 2008) | 1 line

  Remove locking part of new buffer protocol.
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  r64012 | facundo.batista | 2008-06-07 15:36:36 +0200 (Sat, 07 Jun 2008) | 4 lines


  Finished bug #2451.  Fixed the retrying part to make it
  more robust.
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  r64036 | georg.brandl | 2008-06-08 10:54:40 +0200 (Sun, 08 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  #3028: tokenize passes the physical line.
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  r64037 | georg.brandl | 2008-06-08 10:59:38 +0200 (Sun, 08 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  Argh, I read it wrong. Reverted 64036 and added a clarifying remark.
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  r64047 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-06-09 03:28:30 +0200 (Mon, 09 Jun 2008) | 1 line

  Issue3065:  Fixed pickling of named tuples.  Added tests.
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  r64050 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-06-09 08:54:45 +0200 (Mon, 09 Jun 2008) | 1 line

  Issue #2138: Add math.factorial().
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  r64051 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-06-09 10:33:37 +0200 (Mon, 09 Jun 2008) | 1 line

  Let set.union() and set.update() accept multiple inputs.
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  r64052 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-06-09 11:29:17 +0200 (Mon, 09 Jun 2008) | 1 line

  Address double-rounding scenarios by setting all variables to long doubles.
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  r64054 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-06-09 13:24:47 +0200 (Mon, 09 Jun 2008) | 1 line

  Unhappy buildbots.  Revert 64052.  Long doubles have unexpected effects on some builds.
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  r64055 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-06-09 15:07:27 +0200 (Mon, 09 Jun 2008) | 1 line

  Let set.intersection() and set.intersection_update() take multiple input arguments.
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  r64066 | robert.schuppenies | 2008-06-10 12:10:31 +0200 (Tue, 10 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  Issue 3048: Fixed sys.getsizeof for unicode objects.
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  r64071 | thomas.heller | 2008-06-10 16:07:12 +0200 (Tue, 10 Jun 2008) | 3 lines

  NEWS entry for:
  Add an optional 'offset' parameter to byref, defaulting to zero.
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  r63562 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-05-23 17:06:50 +0200 (Fri, 23 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Patch #1722225: Support QNX 6.
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  r63570 | trent.nelson | 2008-05-23 22:33:14 +0200 (Fri, 23 May 2008) | 1 line

  Introduce a user macro named $(externalsDir), which should point to the root directory of where all the external sources should live.  Developers can change this value if their external sources live elsewhere.  The default of '..\..' matches the current status quo.
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  r63728 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-05-26 23:16:34 +0200 (Mon, 26 May 2008) | 4 lines

  Fix issue2589: there was a potential integer overflow leading to
  memory corruption on esoteric platforms and incorrect behavior on
  normal platforms.
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  r63734 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-05-27 00:07:28 +0200 (Tue, 27 May 2008) | 3 lines

  Fix issue2588: Do not execute str[size-1] = '\0' when a 0 size is
  passed in.  (The assert won't prevent this in non-debug builds).
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  r63784 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-05-29 10:38:23 +0200 (Thu, 29 May 2008) | 1 line

  Fix two typos.
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  r63788 | facundo.batista | 2008-05-29 18:39:26 +0200 (Thu, 29 May 2008) | 6 lines


  Fixed the semantic of timeout for socket.create_connection and
  all the upper level libraries that use it, including urllib2.
  Added and fixed some tests, and changed docs correspondingly.
  Thanks to John J Lee for the patch and the pusing, :)
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  r63802 | mark.dickinson | 2008-05-30 04:46:53 +0200 (Fri, 30 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix typo in testSum
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  r63817 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-05-30 20:20:50 +0200 (Fri, 30 May 2008) | 8 lines

  * Mark intermedidate computes values (hi, lo, yr) as volatile.
  * Expand comments.
  * Swap variable names in the sum_exact code so that x and y
    are consistently chosen as the larger and smaller magnitude
    values respectively.
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  r63827 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-05-31 05:24:31 +0200 (Sat, 31 May 2008) | 1 line

  Implement heapq in terms of less-than (to match list.sort()).
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  r63839 | gerhard.haering | 2008-05-31 23:33:27 +0200 (Sat, 31 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Fixed rowcount for SELECT statements. They're -1 now (again), for better DB-API 2.0 compliance.
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  r63887 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-06-02 06:05:52 +0200 (Mon, 02 Jun 2008) | 4 lines

  Fix issue 2782: be less strict about the format string type in strftime.
  Accept unicode and anything else ParseTuple "s#" can deal with.  This
  matches the time.strftime behavior.
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  r63975 | neal.norwitz | 2008-06-06 06:47:01 +0200 (Fri, 06 Jun 2008) | 3 lines

  Aldo Cortesi confirmed this is still needed for OpenBSD 4.2 and 4.3.
  (I didn't regen configure, since I don't have a working autoconf.)
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  r63998 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-06-06 23:47:51 +0200 (Fri, 06 Jun 2008) | 1 line

  Issue 3501: Make heapq support both __le__ and __lt__.
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  r63384 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-05-16 20:03:52 +0200 (Fri, 16 May 2008) | 5 lines

  Patch by Quentin Gallet-Gilles: Renaming leftovers for 2.6.

  This fixes the omissions of configparser, copyreg, queue and
  socketserver renaming.
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  r63545 | mark.dickinson | 2008-05-23 06:22:50 +0200 (Fri, 23 May 2008) | 6 lines

  Temporary checkin to get configure to report more
  information about the processor on the Debian/alpha
  buildbot.  (I'm still trying to track down the cause
  of the test_math failures for this machine.)  This
  checkin will be reverted within the next 48 hours.
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  r63568 | mark.dickinson | 2008-05-23 20:04:06 +0200 (Fri, 23 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Revert temporary checkin in revision 63545.
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  r63914 | georg.brandl | 2008-06-03 12:23:15 +0200 (Tue, 03 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix Tkinter sequence passing. #2906.
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  r63932 | georg.brandl | 2008-06-04 13:17:26 +0200 (Wed, 04 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  Complete revision of new turtle module's docs.
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  r64028 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-06-07 22:44:48 +0200 (Sat, 07 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  capitalization nit
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  r63724 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-05-26 22:22:14 +0200 (Mon, 26 May 2008) | 6 lines

  Fixes issue2791: subprocess.Popen.communicate leaked a file descripton until
  the last reference to the Popen instance was dropped.  Adding explicit
  close() calls fixes it.

  Candidate for backport to release25-maint.
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  r63726 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-26 22:43:24 +0200 (Mon, 26 May 2008) | 2 lines

  fix minor grammar typo
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  r63732 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-26 23:44:26 +0200 (Mon, 26 May 2008) | 2 lines

  remove duplication in test module
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  r63744 | lars.gustaebel | 2008-05-27 14:39:23 +0200 (Tue, 27 May 2008) | 3 lines

  Do not close external file objects passed to tarfile.open(mode='w:bz2')
  when the TarFile is closed.
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  r63754 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-28 03:12:35 +0200 (Wed, 28 May 2008) | 2 lines

  update tutorial function with more appropiate one from Eric Smith
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  r63755 | mark.hammond | 2008-05-28 03:54:55 +0200 (Wed, 28 May 2008) | 2 lines

  bdist_wininst now works correctly when both --skip-build and --plat-name are specified.
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  r63757 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-28 13:21:39 +0200 (Wed, 28 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #2989: add PyType_Modified().
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  r63758 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-28 13:51:41 +0200 (Wed, 28 May 2008) | 2 lines

  fix spelling
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  r63760 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-28 17:41:36 +0200 (Wed, 28 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #2990: prevent inconsistent state while updating method cache.
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  r63775 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-29 09:18:17 +0200 (Thu, 29 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Two fixes in bytearray docs.
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  r63781 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-29 09:38:37 +0200 (Thu, 29 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #2988: add note about catching CookieError when parsing untrusted cookie data.
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  r63782 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-29 09:45:26 +0200 (Thu, 29 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #2985: allow i8 in XMLRPC responses.
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  r63787 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-29 16:35:39 +0200 (Thu, 29 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Revert #2990 patch; it's not necessary as Armin showed.
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  r63805 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-05-30 08:37:27 +0200 (Fri, 30 May 2008) | 1 line

  Issue 2784: fix leaks in exception exit.
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  r63806 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-05-30 08:49:47 +0200 (Fri, 30 May 2008) | 1 line

  Issue 2855: Fix obscure crasher by slowing down the entire module.  Mimics what was done to dictionaries in r59223.
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  r63807 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-05-30 09:16:53 +0200 (Fri, 30 May 2008) | 1 line

  Issue 2903:  Add __name__ in globals for namedtuple namespace.
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  r63808 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-30 09:54:16 +0200 (Fri, 30 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #2999: fix name of third parameter in unicode.replace()'s docstring.
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  r63818 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-30 21:12:13 +0200 (Fri, 30 May 2008) | 2 lines

  getloadavg() is not available on Windows.
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  r63819 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-30 21:17:29 +0200 (Fri, 30 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Better quote with single quotes.
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  r63823 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-30 22:44:39 +0200 (Fri, 30 May 2008) | 2 lines

  fix grammar
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  r63824 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2008-05-30 22:52:18 +0200 (Fri, 30 May 2008) | 5 lines

  Update the locale module alias table.

  Closes #3011.
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  r63829 | mark.summerfield | 2008-05-31 15:05:34 +0200 (Sat, 31 May 2008) | 4 lines

  Added a note to [] that special forms & special chars lose their meaning
  and backrefs can't be used inside []
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  r63830 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-31 16:40:09 +0200 (Sat, 31 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #3010: clarification about stdin/use_rawinput.
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  r63831 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-31 16:45:55 +0200 (Sat, 31 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #3005: add explaining sentence to easydialogs docs.
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  r63858 | georg.brandl | 2008-06-01 18:41:31 +0200 (Sun, 01 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  Add plain text make target.
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  r63865 | georg.brandl | 2008-06-01 21:24:36 +0200 (Sun, 01 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  Spaces vs. tabs.
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  r63879 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-06-02 00:57:47 +0200 (Mon, 02 Jun 2008) | 3 lines

  Make the _H #define's match the header file names.  Fix comments to
  mention the correct type names.
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  r63882 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-06-02 01:48:47 +0200 (Mon, 02 Jun 2008) | 3 lines

  Adds a Thread.getIdent() method to provide the _get_ident() value for
  any given threading.Thread object.  feature request issue 2871.
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  r63948 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-06-04 22:41:44 +0200 (Wed, 04 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  Fixed complex.__getnewargs__() to not emit another complex object.
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  r63970 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-06-06 01:33:54 +0200 (Fri, 06 Jun 2008) | 1 line

  Document 'utc' parameter
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  r63971 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-06-06 01:35:31 +0200 (Fri, 06 Jun 2008) | 1 line

  Add various items
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  r63972 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-06-06 01:35:48 +0200 (Fri, 06 Jun 2008) | 1 line

  Grammar fix
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  r63976 | georg.brandl | 2008-06-06 09:34:50 +0200 (Fri, 06 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  Markup fix.
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  r63989 | thomas.heller | 2008-06-06 20:42:11 +0200 (Fri, 06 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  Add a reminder for the maintainer of whatsnew.
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  r64014 | georg.brandl | 2008-06-07 17:59:10 +0200 (Sat, 07 Jun 2008) | 3 lines

  Factor out docstring dedenting from inspect.getdoc() into inspect.cleandoc()
  to ease standalone use of the algorithm.
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  r64015 | georg.brandl | 2008-06-07 18:04:01 +0200 (Sat, 07 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  Revert unwanted changes.
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  r64021 | georg.brandl | 2008-06-07 20:16:12 +0200 (Sat, 07 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  X-ref to numbers module.
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  r64022 | georg.brandl | 2008-06-07 20:17:37 +0200 (Sat, 07 Jun 2008) | 3 lines

  Document the "st" API, to avoid confusion with the "new" AST.
  Add a note about using the new AST module.
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  r64063 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-06-10 07:03:35 +0200 (Tue, 10 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  Add Gregor Lingl.
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  r64064 | georg.brandl | 2008-06-10 09:45:28 +0200 (Tue, 10 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  Add the "ast" module, containing helpers to ease use of the "_ast" classes.
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  r64065 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-06-10 09:57:15 +0200 (Tue, 10 Jun 2008) | 1 line

  Add Arnaud for his efforts on multi-arg set operations.
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  r64067 | georg.brandl | 2008-06-10 14:46:39 +0200 (Tue, 10 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  #2536: fix itertools.permutations and itertools.combinations docstrings.
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  r63988 | thomas.heller | 2008-06-06 20:37:55 +0200 (Fr, 06 Jun 2008) | 3 lines

  Performance improvement: Use PyDict_Get/SetItem instead of
  PyDict_Get/SetItemString.
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  r63991 | thomas.heller | 2008-06-06 22:05:15 +0200 (Fr, 06 Jun 2008) | 5 lines

  Document the new ctypes features.

  It would be great if someone could review both sematics, markup, and
  spelling, and correct the versionadded and versionchanges markers.
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  r64070 | thomas.heller | 2008-06-10 16:02:46 +0200 (Di, 10 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  Add an optional 'offset' parameter to byref, defaultingto zero.
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  r64057 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-06-09 23:34:53 -0400 (Mon, 09 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  Issue 2582: Fix pickling of xrange objects.
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  r64058 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-06-10 00:01:23 -0400 (Tue, 10 Jun 2008) | 3 lines

  Added better pickling support to xrange objects.
  Cleaned up the unit test.
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  r64044 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-06-08 17:52:37 -0500 (Sun, 08 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  Warn about assigning to Py3k keywords (True and False)
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  r64045 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-06-08 18:00:00 -0500 (Sun, 08 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  warn about parameter tuple unpacking
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  r64040 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-06-08 10:45:23 -0500 (Sun, 08 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  add an ast_warn helper function to make adding those Py3k warnings easier
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The strftime routines must know how to decode
localized month/day names themselves.