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  r67654 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-07 16:42:09 -0600 (Sun, 07 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4457: rewrite __import__() documentation.
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  r67676 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-08 20:03:03 -0600 (Mon, 08 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  specify how things are copied
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  r67677 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-08 20:05:11 -0600 (Mon, 08 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  revert unrelated change to installer script
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  r67681 | jeremy.hylton | 2008-12-09 15:03:10 -0600 (Tue, 09 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Add simple unittests for Request
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  r67692 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-12-10 18:03:42 -0600 (Wed, 10 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #1030250: correctly pass the dry_run option to the mkpath() function.
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  r67725 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-12 22:02:20 -0600 (Fri, 12 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fix incorrect example
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  r67761 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-14 11:26:04 -0600 (Sun, 14 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fix missing bracket
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  r67784 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-15 02:33:58 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4446: document "platforms" argument for setup().
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  r67785 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-15 02:36:11 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4611: fix typo.
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  r67787 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-15 02:58:59 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4578: fix has_key() usage in compiler package.
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  r67788 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-15 03:07:39 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4568: remove limitation in varargs callback example.
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  r67802 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-12-15 16:29:14 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 4 lines

  #3632: the "pyo" macro from gdbinit can now run when the GIL is released.

  Patch by haypo.
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  r67848 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-18 20:28:56 -0600 (Thu, 18 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fix typo
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  r67849 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-18 20:31:35 -0600 (Thu, 18 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  _call_method -> _callmethod and _get_value to _getvalue
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  r67850 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-12-19 03:06:07 -0600 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 9 lines

  Fix-up and clean-up docs for int.bit_length().

  * Replace dramatic footnote with in-line comment about possible round-off errors in logarithms of large numbers.
  * Add comments to the pure python code equivalent.
  * replace floor() with int() in the mathematical equivalent so the type is correct (should be an int, not a float).
  * add abs() to the mathematical equivalent so that it matches the previous line that it is supposed to be equivalent to.
  * make one combined example with a negative input.
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  r67862 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-19 20:48:02 -0600 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  copy sentence from docstring
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  r67863 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-19 20:51:26 -0600 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  add headings
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  r67864 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-19 20:57:19 -0600 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  beef up docstring
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  r67880 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 16:49:24 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  remove redundant sentence
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  r67882 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 16:59:49 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  add some recent releases to the list
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Doc/library/optparse.rst

@@ -1625,36 +1625,33 @@ directly).
 Nevertheless, here's a stab at a callback for an option with variable
 arguments::
 
-   def vararg_callback(option, opt_str, value, parser):
-       assert value is None
-       done = 0
-       value = []
-       rargs = parser.rargs
-       while rargs:
-           arg = rargs[0]
+    def vararg_callback(option, opt_str, value, parser):
+        assert value is None
+        value = []
 
-           # Stop if we hit an arg like "--foo", "-a", "-fx", "--file=f",
-           # etc.  Note that this also stops on "-3" or "-3.0", so if
-           # your option takes numeric values, you will need to handle
-           # this.
-           if ((arg[:2] == "--" and len(arg) > 2) or
-               (arg[:1] == "-" and len(arg) > 1 and arg[1] != "-")):
-               break
-           else:
-               value.append(arg)
-               del rargs[0]
+        def floatable(str):
+            try:
+                float(str)
+                return True
+            except ValueError:
+                return False
 
-       setattr(parser.values, option.dest, value)
+        for arg in parser.rargs:
+            # stop on --foo like options
+            if arg[:2] == "--" and len(arg) > 2:
+                break
+            # stop on -a, but not on -3 or -3.0
+            if arg[:1] == "-" and len(arg) > 1 and not floatable(arg):
+                break
+            value.append(arg)
+
+        del parser.rargs[:len(value)]
+        setattr(parser.values, option.dest, value))
 
    [...]
    parser.add_option("-c", "--callback", dest="vararg_attr",
                      action="callback", callback=vararg_callback)
 
-The main weakness with this particular implementation is that negative numbers
-in the arguments following ``"-c"`` will be interpreted as further options
-(probably causing an error), rather than as arguments to ``"-c"``.  Fixing this
-is left as an exercise for the reader.
-
 
 .. _optparse-extending-optparse: