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  r67494 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-12-02 22:46:45 -0800 (Tue, 02 Dec 2008) | 5 lines

  Speed up Python (according to pybench and 2to3-on-itself) by 1-2% by caching
  whether any thread has tracing turned on, which saves one load instruction in
  the fast_next_opcode path in PyEval_EvalFrameEx().  See issue 4477.
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(This is a forward port of r67601).

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  r67601 | mark.dickinson | 2008-12-05 21:55:28 +0000 (Fri, 05 Dec 2008) | 3 lines

  Issue #4445: save 3 bytes (on average, on a typical machine) per
  string allocation.
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  r67590 | mark.dickinson | 2008-12-05 17:59:46 +0000 (Fri, 05 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Issue #4461: Safety check in parsenumber (ast.c)
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  r67583 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-05 16:52:20 +0100 (Fri, 05 Dec 2008) | 4 lines

  Move __import__ to the bottom of the functions list.
  It doesn't make sense for such a fundamental document to have
  the most obscure function listed at the top.
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(I guess *all* changes to this file should be backported to the 3.0 branch.)

This fixes test_binascii.

Will backport to 3.0

function which shadows the builtin.

Will backport to 3.0

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  r67528 | fred.drake | 2008-12-04 13:25:17 -0500 (Thu, 04 Dec 2008) | 4 lines

  Issue #1055234: cgi.parse_header(): Fixed parsing of header parameters to
  support unusual filenames (such as those containing semi-colons) in
  Content-Disposition headers.
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- remove silly emoticon

Wording change (flaunt -> disobey); markup fixes.  The largest edit is to the paragraph on relative imports; please review.  (Backport candidate)