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  r59952 | thomas.heller | 2008-01-14 02:35:28 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Issue 1821: configure libffi for amd64 on FreeeBSD.
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  r59953 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-14 06:48:43 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Update description of float_info
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  r59959 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-14 14:58:05 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Fix 1698398:  Zipfile.printdir() crashed because the format string expected a tuple object of length six instead of a time.struct_time object.
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  r59961 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-14 17:29:16 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Typo fixes
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  r59962 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-14 17:29:44 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Markup fix
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  r59963 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-14 17:47:32 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Add many items
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  r59964 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-14 17:55:32 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Repair unfinished sentence
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  r59967 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-14 19:02:37 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 5 lines

  Issue 1820:  structseq objects did not work with the % formatting operator or isinstance(t, tuple).

  Orignal patch (without tests) by Leif Walsh.
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  r59968 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-14 19:07:42 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Tighten the definition of a named tuple.
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  r59969 | skip.montanaro | 2008-01-14 19:40:20 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  Better (?) text describing the lack of guarantees provided by qsize(),
  empty() and full().
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  r59970 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-14 21:39:59 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Temporarily revert 59967 until GC can be added.
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  r59971 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-14 21:46:43 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Small grammar nit
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  r59972 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-14 22:55:56 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Typo.
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  r59973 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-14 22:58:15 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Remove duplicate entry.
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  r59974 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-01-14 23:46:24 -0800 (Mon, 14 Jan 2008) | 12 lines

  Add rational.Rational as an implementation of numbers.Rational with infinite
  precision. This has been discussed at http://bugs.python.org/issue1682. It's
  useful primarily for teaching, but it also demonstrates how to implement a
  member of the numeric tower, including fallbacks for mixed-mode arithmetic.

  I expect to write a couple more patches in this area:
   * Rational.from_decimal()
   * Rational.trim/approximate() (maybe with different names)
   * Maybe remove the parentheses from Rational.__str__()
   * Maybe rename one of the Rational classes
   * Maybe make Rational('3/2') work.
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  r59978 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-15 06:38:05 -0800 (Tue, 15 Jan 2008) | 8 lines

  Restore description of sys.dont_write_bytecode.

  The duplication is intentional -- this paragraph is in a section
  describing additions to the sys module, and there's a later section
  that mentions the switch.  I think most people scan the what's-new and
  don't read it in detail, so a bit of duplication is OK.
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  r59984 | guido.van.rossum | 2008-01-15 09:59:29 -0800 (Tue, 15 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  Issue #1786 (by myself): pdb should use its own stdin/stdout around an
  exec call and when creating a recursive instance.
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Doc/library/test.rst

@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ The :mod:`test.test_support` module defines the following functions:
 
    This is a context manager than runs the :keyword:`with` statement body using
    a :class:`StringIO.StringIO` object as sys.stdout.  That object can be
-   retrieved using the ``as`` clause of the with statement.
+   retrieved using the ``as`` clause of the :keyword:`with` statement.
 
    Example use::