UserDict and UserList and mixins in the intro. Fixed a typo.

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  r60752 | mark.dickinson | 2008-02-12 22:31:59 +0100 (Tue, 12 Feb 2008) | 5 lines

  Implementation of Fraction.limit_denominator.

  Remove Fraction.to_continued_fraction and
  Fraction.from_continued_fraction
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  Replace R=fractions.Fraction with F=fractions.Fraction in
  test_fractions.py.  This should have been part of the name
  change from Rational to Fraction.
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  r60758 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-13 08:20:22 +0100 (Wed, 13 Feb 2008) | 3 lines

  #2063: correct order of utime and stime in os.times()
  result on Windows.
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  r60762 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-02-13 18:58:04 +0100 (Wed, 13 Feb 2008) | 7 lines

  Working on issue #1762: Brought
    ./python.exe -m timeit -s 'from fractions import Fraction; f = Fraction(3, 2)' 'isinstance(3, Fraction); isinstance(f, Fraction)'
  from 12.3 usec/loop to 3.44 usec/loop and
    ./python.exe -m timeit -s 'from fractions import Fraction' 'Fraction(3, 2)'
  from 48.8 usec to 23.6 usec by avoiding genexps and sets in __instancecheck__
  and inlining the common case from __subclasscheck__.
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  r60765 | brett.cannon | 2008-02-13 20:15:44 +0100 (Wed, 13 Feb 2008) | 5 lines

  Fix --enable-universalsdk and its comment line so that zsh's flag completion
  works.

  Thanks to Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven for the fix.
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  r60771 | kurt.kaiser | 2008-02-14 01:08:55 +0100 (Thu, 14 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Bring NEWS.txt up to date from check-in msgs.
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  r60772 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-14 02:08:02 +0100 (Thu, 14 Feb 2008) | 3 lines

  Update notes on Decimal.
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  r60773 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-14 03:41:22 +0100 (Thu, 14 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Fix decimal repr which should have used single quotes like other reprs.
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  r60785 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-02-14 07:12:24 +0100 (Thu, 14 Feb 2008) | 11 lines

  Performance optimizations on Fraction's constructor.

    ./python.exe -m timeit -s 'from fractions import Fraction' 'Fraction(3)`
  31.7 usec/loop -> 9.2 usec/loop

    ./python.exe -m timeit -s 'from fractions import Fraction' 'Fraction(3, 2)'`
  27.7 usec/loop -> 9.32 usec/loop

    ./python.exe -m timeit -s 'from fractions import Fraction; f = Fraction(3, 2)' 'Fraction(f)'
  31.9 usec/loop -> 14.3 usec/loop
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  Change simple instances (in Fraction) of self.numerator and self.denominator to
  self._numerator and self._denominator. This speeds abs() up from 12.2us to
  10.8us and trunc() from 2.07us to 1.11us. This doesn't change _add and friends
  because they're more complicated.
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  Add pickle support to ctypes types.
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  Make the test somewhat clearer (I hope).
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  Add notes on how decimal fits into the model.
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  Fix markup
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  Backport ABC docs
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  Restore fractions.rst to the document tree.
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  r60740 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-12 01:48:20 +0100 (Tue, 12 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Fix typo in comments
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  Bring decimal a bit closer to the spec for Reals.
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  r60743 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-02-12 14:47:26 +0100 (Tue, 12 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.
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  r60745 | kurt.kaiser | 2008-02-12 16:45:50 +0100 (Tue, 12 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  what??! Correct r60225.
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  r60747 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-02-12 19:47:34 +0100 (Tue, 12 Feb 2008) | 4 lines

  Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
  implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
  Will backport to 2.5.
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  r60749 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-12 20:05:36 +0100 (Tue, 12 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  dict.copy() rises from the ashes.  Revert r60687.
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  No need to register classes that already inherit from ABCs.
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  r60701 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-09 22:36:15 +0100 (Sat, 09 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Needs only 2.4 now.
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  r60702 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-09 22:38:54 +0100 (Sat, 09 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Docs are rst now.
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  Fix link.
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  Fix for newest doctools.
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  r60709 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-10 08:21:09 +0100 (Sun, 10 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Clarify that decimal also supports fixed-point arithmetic.
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  r60710 | nick.coghlan | 2008-02-10 08:32:52 +0100 (Sun, 10 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Add missing NEWS entry for r60695
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  r60712 | mark.dickinson | 2008-02-10 15:58:38 +0100 (Sun, 10 Feb 2008) | 3 lines

  Turn classmethods into staticmethods, and avoid calling the constructor
  of subclasses of Rational.  (See discussion in issue #1682.)
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  r60715 | mark.dickinson | 2008-02-10 16:19:58 +0100 (Sun, 10 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Typos in decimal comment and documentation
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  r60716 | skip.montanaro | 2008-02-10 16:31:54 +0100 (Sun, 10 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Get the saying right. ;-)
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  r60717 | skip.montanaro | 2008-02-10 16:32:16 +0100 (Sun, 10 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  whoops - revert
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  r60718 | mark.dickinson | 2008-02-10 20:23:36 +0100 (Sun, 10 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Remove reference to Rational
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  Complete an open todo on pickletools -- add a pickle optimizer.
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  r60721 | mark.dickinson | 2008-02-10 22:29:51 +0100 (Sun, 10 Feb 2008) | 3 lines

  Rename rational.Rational to fractions.Fraction, to avoid name clash
  with numbers.Rational.  See issue #1682 for related discussion.
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  r60722 | christian.heimes | 2008-02-11 03:26:22 +0100 (Mon, 11 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  The test requires the network resource
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  Put an extra space into the repr of a Fraction:
  Fraction(1, 2) instead of Fraction(1,2).
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  r60696 | christian.heimes | 2008-02-09 20:55:22 +0100 (Sat, 09 Feb 2008) | 5 lines

  Issue #1706: Require Windows 2000+
  Added Py_BUILD_CORE_MODULES macro to set WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION to Windows 2000 for core modules, too
  Added -d option to build.bat (same as -c Debug) and fixed warning about /build option
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  Merge with r60683.
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  Metaclass declaration is inherited
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  Temporarily disable this test. It's been broken for a week.
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  Issue 2021: Allow NamedTemporaryFile and SpooledTemporaryFile to be used as context managers. (The NamedTemporaryFile fix should be considered for backporting to 2.5)
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  r60618 | walter.doerwald | 2008-02-06 15:31:55 +0100 (Wed, 06 Feb 2008) | 6 lines

  Remove month parameter from Calendar.yeardatescalendar(),
  Calendar.yeardays2calendar() and Calendar.yeardayscalendar() as the methods
  don't have such a parameter. Fixes issue #2017.

  Rewrap content to 80 chars.
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  Fixes issue 1959. Converted tests to unittest.
  Thanks Giampaolo Rodola.
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  Fixed refcounts and error handling.

  Should not be merged to py3k branch.
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  Issue 1979: Make Decimal comparisons (other than !=, ==) involving NaN
  raise InvalidOperation (and return False if InvalidOperation is trapped).
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  Remove incorrect usage of :const: in documentation.
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  Revert accidental changes to test_queue in r60605.
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  Issue 2025:  Add tuple.count() and tuple.index() to follow the ABC in collections.Sequence.
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  Fix broken link in decimal documentation.
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  r60638 | mark.dickinson | 2008-02-07 02:42:06 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 3 lines

  IEEE 754 should be IEEE 854;  give precise reference for
  comparisons involving NaNs.
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  Return ints instead of longs for tuple.count() and tuple.index().
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  Merge 60627.
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  r60641 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-07 04:25:46 +0100 (Thu, 07 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Merge r60628, r60631, and r60633.  Register UserList and UserString will the appropriate ABCs.
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  Cast a struct to a void pointer so as to do a type-safe pointer comparison
  (mistmatch found by clang).
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  Remove unnecessary curly braces around an int literal.
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  Update URL
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  Fixes issue 2026.  Tests converted to unittest.  Thanks
  Giampaolo Rodola.
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  Added some statistics code to dict and list object code. I wanted to test how a larger freelist affects the reusage of freed objects. Contrary to my gut feelings 80 objects is more than fine for small apps. I haven't profiled a large app yet.
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  Fixes Issue 1401. When redirected, a possible POST get converted
  to GET, so it loses its payload. So, it also must lose the
  headers related to the payload (if it has no content any more,
  it shouldn't indicate content length and type).
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  Clarify that the output of TextCalendar.formatmonth() and
  TextCalendar.formatyear() for custom instances won't be influenced by calls
  to the module global setfirstweekday() function. Fixes #2018.
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  Fix documentation for Calendar.iterweekdays(): firstweekday is a property.
  Fixes second part of #2018.
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  Fix typo in docstring for Calendar.itermonthdays().
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  The float conversion recipe is simpler in Py2.6
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  Fix typo
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  Make sure a switch statement does not have repetitive case statements.
  Error found through LLVM post-2.1 svn.
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  Deallocate content of the dict free list on interpreter shutdown
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  Use prefix decrement
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  issue 2045: Infinite recursion when printing a subclass of defaultdict,
  if default_factory is set to a bound method.

  Will backport.
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  Oops! 2.6's Rational.__ne__ didn't work.
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  Update big5hkscs codec to conform to the HKSCS:2004 revision.
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  Remove unnecessary modulo division.
  The preceding test guarantees that 0 <= i < len.
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  Speed-up __iter__() mixin method.
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  Fill-in missing Set comparisons
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  Add advice on choosing between DictMixin and MutableMapping
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Identify which abstract methods need to be defined.
Show the inheritance hierarchy.
List all of the mixin methods provided automatically.

the ABC for collections.Sequence.

In its previous form, it always returned instance of frozenset which makes this ABC
nearly useless as a mixin.  In its new form, it needs to be able to assume that the
constructor will take a frozenset input.  This will usually be true.  If it is not,
then only one method (this one) will need to be overriden by the subclass to let
it know about the unique constructor signature.  Will add info on this to the docs.