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 Tools/Demos
 -----------
 
+- A hotshotmain script was added to the Tools/scripts directory that
+  makes it easy to run a script under control of the hotshot profiler.
+
 - The db2pickle and pickle2db scripts can now dump/load gdbm files.
 
 - The pydoc script will display a link to the module documentation for