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  r59844 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-07 21:56:05 +0100 (Mon, 07 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Use get() instead of pop() for the optimized version of _replace().
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  r59847 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-07 22:33:51 +0100 (Mon, 07 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Documentation nits.
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  r59849 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-08 03:02:05 +0100 (Tue, 08 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Expand comment.
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  r59850 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-08 03:24:15 +0100 (Tue, 08 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Docs on named tuple's naming conventions and limits of subclassing
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  r59851 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-08 04:40:04 +0100 (Tue, 08 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  It's verbose, not debug
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  r59852 | facundo.batista | 2008-01-08 13:25:20 +0100 (Tue, 08 Jan 2008) | 4 lines


  Issue #1757: The hash of a Decimal instance is no longer affected
  by the current context.  Thanks Mark Dickinson.
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  r59853 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-08 15:30:55 +0100 (Tue, 08 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Patch 1137: allow assigning to .buffer_size attribute of PyExpat.parser objects
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  r59854 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-08 15:56:02 +0100 (Tue, 08 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Patch 1114: fix compilation of curses module on 64-bit AIX, and any other LP64 platforms where attr_t isn't a C long
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  r59856 | thomas.heller | 2008-01-08 16:15:09 +0100 (Tue, 08 Jan 2008) | 5 lines

  Use relative instead of absolute filenames in the C-level tracebacks.
  This prevents traceback prints pointing to files in this way:

    File "\loewis\25\python\Modules\_ctypes\callbacks.c", line 206, in 'calling callback function'
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  r59857 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-08 16:46:10 +0100 (Tue, 08 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Added __enter__ and __exit__ functions to HKEY object
  Added ExpandEnvironmentStrings to the _winreg module.
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  r59858 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-08 17:18:26 +0100 (Tue, 08 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix markup errors from r59857 and clarify key.__enter__/__exit__ docs
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  r59860 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-08 20:42:30 +0100 (Tue, 08 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Better method for associating .py files with the interpreter.
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  r59862 | facundo.batista | 2008-01-08 22:10:12 +0100 (Tue, 08 Jan 2008) | 9 lines


  Issue 846388. Adds a call to PyErr_CheckSignals to
  SRE_MATCH so that signal handlers can be invoked during
  long regular expression matches.  It also adds a new
  error return value indicating that an exception
  occurred in a signal handler during the match, allowing
  exceptions in the signal handler to propagate up to the
  main loop.  Thanks Josh Hoyt and Ralf Schmitt.
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Lib/decimal.py

@@ -809,8 +809,10 @@ class Decimal(_numbers.Real, _numbers.Inexact):
     def __hash__(self):
         """x.__hash__() <==> hash(x)"""
         # Decimal integers must hash the same as the ints
-        # Non-integer decimals are normalized and hashed as strings
-        # Normalization assures that hash(100E-1) == hash(10)
+        #
+        # The hash of a nonspecial noninteger Decimal must depend only
+        # on the value of that Decimal, and not on its representation.
+        # For example: hash(Decimal("100E-1")) == hash(Decimal("10")).
         if self._is_special:
             if self._isnan():
                 raise TypeError('Cannot hash a NaN value.')
@@ -826,7 +828,13 @@ class Decimal(_numbers.Real, _numbers.Inexact):
             # 2**64-1.  So we can replace hash((-1)**s*c*10**e) with
             # hash((-1)**s*c*pow(10, e, 2**64-1).
             return hash((-1)**op.sign*op.int*pow(10, op.exp, 2**64-1))
-        return hash(str(self.normalize()))
+        # The value of a nonzero nonspecial Decimal instance is
+        # faithfully represented by the triple consisting of its sign,
+        # its adjusted exponent, and its coefficient with trailing
+        # zeros removed.
+        return hash((self._sign,
+                     self._exp+len(self._int),
+                     self._int.rstrip('0')))
 
     def as_tuple(self):
         """Represents the number as a triple tuple.