usability for large config files.

The ConfigParser.get() method should have been O(1) but had
O(n) dict copies and updates on every call.  This was
exacerbated by using OrderedDicts which do not copy or
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  r88284 | antoine.pitrou | 2011-01-31 22:08:57 +0100 (lun., 31 janv. 2011) | 4 lines

  Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64.
  Patch by Stan Mihai. Ok'ed by Georg.
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  r88281 | brian.curtin | 2011-01-31 13:35:02 -0600 (Mon, 31 Jan 2011) | 2 lines

  #11083 typo: RuntimeException -> RuntimeError
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  r88232 | ned.deily | 2011-01-29 10:29:01 -0800 (Sat, 29 Jan 2011) | 5 lines

  Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
  menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
  The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
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  r88004 | ned.deily | 2011-01-14 20:44:12 -0800 (Fri, 14 Jan 2011) | 4 lines

  #10907: Update OS X installer build README to better reflect
          current build practices.
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  r88006 | ned.deily | 2011-01-14 21:29:12 -0800 (Fri, 14 Jan 2011) | 6 lines

  #10843: Update third-party library versions used in OS X 32-bit
          installer builds: bzip2 1.0.6, readline 6.1.2, SQLite 3.7.4
          (with FTS3/FTS4 and RTREE enabled), and ncursesw 5.5 (wide-char
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  r88235 | ned.deily | 2011-01-29 10:56:28 -0800 (Sat, 29 Jan 2011) | 5 lines

  Issue #11054: Allow Mac OS X installer builds to again work on 10.5 with
  the system-provided Python.  Also, properly guard a new Python 3 only
  installer build step so that build-installer.py can stay compatible
  with the 2.7 version.  (with release manager approval for 3.2rc2)
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  r88003 | ned.deily | 2011-01-14 20:37:12 -0800 (Fri, 14 Jan 2011) | 5 lines

  #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5,
          rather than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one,
          when running with the 64-/32-bit installer variant.
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  r88236 | ned.deily | 2011-01-29 11:10:26 -0800 (Sat, 29 Jan 2011) | 3 lines

  Issue 11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
  commands.  (with release manager approval for 3.2rc2)
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  r88204 | antoine.pitrou | 2011-01-27 00:29:28 +0100 (jeu., 27 janv. 2011) | 4 lines

  Issue #11018: fix a test to not be a no-op in test_bz2.
  Found by Nadeem Vawda, reviewed by Brett.
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  r88131 | antoine.pitrou | 2011-01-20 22:07:24 +0100 (jeu., 20 janv. 2011) | 6 lines

  Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
  length.  Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.

  This fixes a regression introduced by r88022.
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  r88114 | alexander.belopolsky | 2011-01-19 14:53:30 -0500 (Wed, 19 Jan 2011) | 5 lines

  Issue #10934: Fixed and expanded Internaldate2tuple() and
  Time2Internaldate() documentation.  Thanks Joe Peterson for the report
  and the original patch.
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  r88111 | antoine.pitrou | 2011-01-19 16:21:35 +0100 (mer., 19 janv. 2011) | 4 lines

  Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
  a symbol named FSTAT.
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  r88097 | antoine.pitrou | 2011-01-18 19:57:52 +0100 (mar., 18 janv. 2011) | 4 lines

  Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
  Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
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  r87394 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-19 02:10:32 -0800 (Sun, 19 Dec 2010) | 1 line

  #6075: make idle work with both Carbon AquaTk and Cocoa AquaTk. Patch by Kevin Walzer and Ned Deily.
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  r88008 | ned.deily | 2011-01-14 21:53:33 -0800 (Fri, 14 Jan 2011) | 2 lines

  Add self to mac platform area in maintainers.rst.
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  r88080 | benjamin.peterson | 2011-01-17 17:49:51 -0600 (Mon, 17 Jan 2011) | 1 line

  very out of date file
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  r88069 | benjamin.peterson | 2011-01-17 13:54:55 -0600 (Mon, 17 Jan 2011) | 1 line

  remove unneeded assertion
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  correct assertion
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  r88063 | benjamin.peterson | 2011-01-17 13:24:34 -0600 (Mon, 17 Jan 2011) | 4 lines

  turn some checks into assertions, since they are implied by the caller

  Reviewed by Georg.
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  r88036 | antoine.pitrou | 2011-01-15 18:25:58 +0100 (sam., 15 janv. 2011) | 3 lines

  Fix mmap and test_mmap under Windows too (followup to r88022)
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  Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as
  length and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file
  is made (IndexError is raised instead).  Patch by Ross Lagerwall.

  Requested by Georg.
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  r88012 | antoine.pitrou | 2011-01-15 12:39:23 +0100 (sam., 15 janv. 2011) | 3 lines

  Avoid ResourceWarnings in ccbench
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  Standard streams use file descriptors, not FILE pointers.
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  r88014 | antoine.pitrou | 2011-01-15 12:57:42 +0100 (sam., 15 janv. 2011) | 3 lines

  Restructure a bit
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  r88015 | antoine.pitrou | 2011-01-15 13:10:48 +0100 (sam., 15 janv. 2011) | 3 lines

  Improve description of issues
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  r88016 | antoine.pitrou | 2011-01-15 13:21:53 +0100 (sam., 15 janv. 2011) | 3 lines

  Add mention of how to switch interpreters
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  r88017 | antoine.pitrou | 2011-01-15 13:54:19 +0100 (sam., 15 janv. 2011) | 3 lines

  Reword and restructure the GIL API doc
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  r88018 | antoine.pitrou | 2011-01-15 14:11:48 +0100 (sam., 15 janv. 2011) | 4 lines

  Issue #10913: Deprecate misleading functions PyEval_AcquireLock() and
  PyEval_ReleaseLock().  The thread-state aware APIs should be used instead.
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  r87984 | georg.brandl | 2011-01-13 08:24:40 +0100 (Do, 13 Jan 2011) | 1 line

  Add semicolon for consistency.
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  r87895 | lukasz.langa | 2011-01-09 12:18:53 -0600 (Sun, 09 Jan 2011) | 5 lines

  #10874: test_urllib2 shouldn't use `is` operator for comparing strings

  Patch by Adreas Stührk.
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  r87960 | benjamin.peterson | 2011-01-12 12:56:07 -0600 (Wed, 12 Jan 2011) | 1 line

  use PyErr_SetString instead of PyErr_Format
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  r87958 | antoine.pitrou | 2011-01-12 19:45:27 +0100 (mer., 12 janv. 2011) | 4 lines

  Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris.  Patch
  by Ross Lagerwall.
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  r87952 | benjamin.peterson | 2011-01-12 09:24:27 -0600 (Wed, 12 Jan 2011) | 1 line

  move this test to test_descr; it's not abc specific
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  oops, wrong class
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  don't segfault on deleting __abstractmethods__ #10892
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  r87949 | benjamin.peterson | 2011-01-11 22:44:41 -0600 (Tue, 11 Jan 2011) | 1 line

  fix weirdly ambigious sentence
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  r87942 | alexander.belopolsky | 2011-01-11 16:44:00 -0500 (Tue, 11 Jan 2011) | 3 lines

  Issue #5109: array.array constructor will now use fast code when
  initial data is provided in an array object with correct type.
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  r82547 | alexander.belopolsky | 2010-07-04 13:00:20 -0400 (Sun, 04 Jul 2010) | 3 lines

  Issue #9118: help(None) will now return NoneType doc instead of
  starting interactive help.
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