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  r53545 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-01-24 21:06:41 +0100 (Wed, 24 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  Strengthen warning about using lock()
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  r53556 | thomas.heller | 2007-01-25 19:34:14 +0100 (Thu, 25 Jan 2007) | 3 lines

  Fix for #1643874: When calling SysAllocString, create a PyCObject
  which will eventually call SysFreeString to free the BSTR resource.
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  r53563 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-01-25 21:02:13 +0100 (Thu, 25 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  Add item
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  r53564 | brett.cannon | 2007-01-25 21:22:02 +0100 (Thu, 25 Jan 2007) | 8 lines

  Fix time.strptime's %U support.  Basically rewrote the algorithm to be more
  generic so that one only has to shift certain values based on whether the week
  was specified to start on Monday or Sunday.  Cut out a lot of edge case code
  compared to the previous version.  Also broke algorithm out into its own
  function (that is private to the module).

  Fixes bug #1643943 (thanks Biran Nahas for the report).
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  r53570 | brett.cannon | 2007-01-26 00:30:39 +0100 (Fri, 26 Jan 2007) | 4 lines

  Remove specific mention of my name and email address from modules.  Not really
  needed and all bug reports should go to the bug tracker, not directly to me.
  Plus I am not the only person to have edited these files at this point.
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  r53573 | fred.drake | 2007-01-26 17:28:44 +0100 (Fri, 26 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  fix typo (extraneous ")")
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  r53575 | georg.brandl | 2007-01-27 18:43:02 +0100 (Sat, 27 Jan 2007) | 4 lines

  Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly compile
  a with statement; previously, executing code containing a with statement
  compiled by the compiler package crashed the interpreter.
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  r53578 | georg.brandl | 2007-01-27 18:59:42 +0100 (Sat, 27 Jan 2007) | 3 lines

  Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
  iso8859_16.
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  r53579 | georg.brandl | 2007-01-27 20:38:50 +0100 (Sat, 27 Jan 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1645944: os.access now returns bool but docstring is not updated
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  r53590 | brett.cannon | 2007-01-28 21:58:00 +0100 (Sun, 28 Jan 2007) | 2 lines

  Use the thread lock's context manager instead of a try/finally statement.
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  r53591 | brett.cannon | 2007-01-29 05:41:44 +0100 (Mon, 29 Jan 2007) | 2 lines

  Add a test for slicing an exception.
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  r53594 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-01-29 21:21:43 +0100 (Mon, 29 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  Minor edits to the curses HOWTO
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  r53596 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-01-29 21:55:40 +0100 (Mon, 29 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  Various minor edits
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  r53597 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-01-29 22:28:48 +0100 (Mon, 29 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  More edits
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  r53601 | tim.peters | 2007-01-30 04:03:46 +0100 (Tue, 30 Jan 2007) | 2 lines

  Whitespace normalization.
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  r53603 | georg.brandl | 2007-01-30 21:21:30 +0100 (Tue, 30 Jan 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1648191: typo in docs.
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  r53605 | brett.cannon | 2007-01-30 22:34:36 +0100 (Tue, 30 Jan 2007) | 8 lines

  No more raising of string exceptions!

  The next step of PEP 352 (for 2.6) causes raising a string exception to trigger
  a TypeError.  Trying to catch a string exception raises a DeprecationWarning.
  References to string exceptions has been removed from the docs since they are
  now just an error.
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  r53618 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-02-01 22:02:59 +0100 (Thu, 01 Feb 2007) | 1 line

  Bug #1648179:  set.update() not recognizing __iter__ overrides in dict subclasses.
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Doc/lib/libexcs.tex

@@ -10,22 +10,6 @@ module never needs to be imported explicitly: the exceptions are
 provided in the built-in namespace as well as the \module{exceptions}
 module.
 
-\begin{notice}
-In past versions of Python string exceptions were supported.  In
-Python 1.5 and newer versions, all standard exceptions have been
-converted to class objects and users are encouraged to do the same.
-String exceptions will raise a \code{DeprecationWarning} in Python 2.5 and
-newer.
-In future versions, support for string exceptions will be removed.
-
-Two distinct string objects with the same value are considered different
-exceptions.  This is done to force programmers to use exception names
-rather than their string value when specifying exception handlers.
-The string value of all built-in exceptions is their name, but this is
-not a requirement for user-defined exceptions or exceptions defined by
-library modules.
-\end{notice}
-
 For class exceptions, in a \keyword{try}\stindex{try} statement with
 an \keyword{except}\stindex{except} clause that mentions a particular
 class, that clause also handles any exception classes derived from