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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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Lib/threading.py

@@ -401,6 +401,7 @@ class Thread(_Verbose):
         self._args = args
         self._kwargs = kwargs
         self._daemonic = self._set_daemon()
+        self._ident = None
         self._started = Event()
         self._stopped = False
         self._block = Condition(Lock())
@@ -421,7 +422,9 @@ class Thread(_Verbose):
         if self._stopped:
             status = "stopped"
         if self._daemonic:
-            status = status + " daemon"
+            status += " daemon"
+        if self._ident is not None:
+            status += " %s" % self._ident
         return "<%s(%s, %s)>" % (self.__class__.__name__, self._name, status)
 
     def start(self):
@@ -469,9 +472,10 @@ class Thread(_Verbose):
 
     def _bootstrap_inner(self):
         try:
+            self._ident = _get_ident()
             self._started.set()
             _active_limbo_lock.acquire()
-            _active[_get_ident()] = self
+            _active[self._ident] = self
             del _limbo[self]
             _active_limbo_lock.release()
             if __debug__:
@@ -536,7 +540,7 @@ class Thread(_Verbose):
             with _active_limbo_lock:
                 self._stop()
                 try:
-                    # We don't call self.__delete() because it also
+                    # We don't call self._delete() because it also
                     # grabs _active_limbo_lock.
                     del _active[_get_ident()]
                 except:
@@ -625,6 +629,10 @@ class Thread(_Verbose):
         assert self._initialized, "Thread.__init__() not called"
         self._name = str(name)
 
+    def getIdent(self):
+        assert self._initialized, "Thread.__init__() not called"
+        return self._ident
+
     def isAlive(self):
         assert self._initialized, "Thread.__init__() not called"
         return self._started.isSet() and not self._stopped