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  r62425 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-21 03:45:57 +0200 (Mon, 21 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Comment typo
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  r62426 | mark.dickinson | 2008-04-21 03:55:50 +0200 (Mon, 21 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Silence 'r may be used uninitialized' compiler warning.
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  r62427 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-21 04:08:00 +0200 (Mon, 21 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Markup fix
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  r62428 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-21 04:08:13 +0200 (Mon, 21 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Wording changes
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  r62429 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-21 04:14:24 +0200 (Mon, 21 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Add various items
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  r62434 | thomas.heller | 2008-04-21 15:46:55 +0200 (Mon, 21 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Fix typo.
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  r62435 | david.goodger | 2008-04-21 16:40:22 +0200 (Mon, 21 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  corrections ("reStructuredText" is one word)
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  r62436 | david.goodger | 2008-04-21 16:43:33 +0200 (Mon, 21 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  capitalization
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  r62441 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-04-21 19:46:40 +0200 (Mon, 21 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  explicitly flush after the ... since there wasn't a newline
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  r62444 | jeroen.ruigrok | 2008-04-21 22:15:39 +0200 (Mon, 21 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Windows x64 also falls under VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_NT.
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  r62446 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-04-21 23:31:08 +0200 (Mon, 21 Apr 2008) | 3 lines

  If sys.stdin is not a tty, fall back to default_getpass after printing
  a warning instead of failing with a termios.error.
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  r62447 | mark.dickinson | 2008-04-22 00:32:24 +0200 (Tue, 22 Apr 2008) | 8 lines

  test_math and test_cmath are failing on the FreeBSD 6.2 trunk buildbot,
  apparently because tanh(-0.) loses the sign of zero on that platform.
  If true, this is a bug in FreeBSD.

  Added a configure test to verify this.  I still need to figure out
  how best to deal with this failure.
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  r62448 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-04-22 00:35:30 +0200 (Tue, 22 Apr 2008) | 7 lines

  Issue 2665: On Windows, sys.stderr does not contain a valid file when running without a console.
  It seems to work, but will fail at the first flush.

  This causes IDLE to crash when too many warnings are printed.

  Will backport.
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  r62450 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-04-22 00:57:00 +0200 (Tue, 22 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix Sphinx warnings
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  r62451 | mark.dickinson | 2008-04-22 02:54:27 +0200 (Tue, 22 Apr 2008) | 3 lines

  Make configure test for tanh(-0.) == -0. committed in r62447 actually
  work.  (The test wasn't properly linked with libm.  Sigh.)
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  r62452 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-04-22 04:16:03 +0200 (Tue, 22 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Various io doc updates
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  r62453 | neal.norwitz | 2008-04-22 07:07:47 +0200 (Tue, 22 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Add Thomas Lee
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  r62454 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-04-22 10:08:41 +0200 (Tue, 22 Apr 2008) | 8 lines

  Major improvements:
  * Default to using /dev/tty for the password prompt and input before
    falling back to sys.stdin and sys.stderr.
  * Use sys.stderr instead of sys.stdout.
  * print the 'password may be echoed' warning to stream used to display
    the prompt rather than always sys.stderr.
  * warn() with GetPassWarning when input may be echoed.
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  r62455 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-04-22 10:11:33 +0200 (Tue, 22 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  update the getpass entry
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  r62463 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-04-22 23:14:41 +0200 (Tue, 22 Apr 2008) | 5 lines

  Issue #2670: urllib2.build_opener() failed when two handlers
  derive the same default base class.

  Will backport.
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  r62465 | skip.montanaro | 2008-04-23 00:45:09 +0200 (Wed, 23 Apr 2008) | 3 lines

  Factor in documentation changes from issue 1753732.
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  r62466 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-04-23 03:06:42 +0200 (Wed, 23 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  syntax fixup
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  r62469 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-04-23 22:38:06 +0200 (Wed, 23 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  #2673 Fix example typo in optparse docs
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  r62474 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-04-24 11:50:50 +0200 (Thu, 24 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Add Guilherme Polo.
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  r62476 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-04-24 15:16:36 +0200 (Thu, 24 Apr 2008) | 3 lines

  Remove Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size, as they were added only
  for backwards compatibility, yet 2.5 did not have them at all.
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  r62477 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-04-24 15:17:24 +0200 (Thu, 24 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix typo.
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  r62478 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-04-24 15:18:03 +0200 (Thu, 24 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Add Jesus Cea.
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  r62480 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-04-24 20:07:05 +0200 (Thu, 24 Apr 2008) | 4 lines

  Issue2681: the literal 0o8 was wrongly accepted, and evaluated as float(0.0).
  This happened only when 8 is the first digit.
  Credits go to Lukas Meuser.
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  r62485 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-04-24 22:10:26 +0200 (Thu, 24 Apr 2008) | 5 lines

  Disable gc when running test_trace, or we may record the __del__ of collected objects.

  See http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-checkins/2008-April/068633.html
  the extra events perfectly match several calls to socket._fileobject.__del__()
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  r62492 | neal.norwitz | 2008-04-25 05:40:17 +0200 (Fri, 25 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Fix typo (now -> no)
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  r62497 | armin.rigo | 2008-04-25 11:35:18 +0200 (Fri, 25 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  A new crasher.
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  r62498 | thomas.heller | 2008-04-25 17:44:16 +0200 (Fri, 25 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Add from_buffer and from_buffer_copy class methods to ctypes types.
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  r62500 | mark.dickinson | 2008-04-25 18:59:09 +0200 (Fri, 25 Apr 2008) | 3 lines

  Issue 2635: fix bug in the fix_sentence_endings option to textwrap.fill.
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  r62507 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-04-25 23:43:56 +0200 (Fri, 25 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Allow test_import to work when it is invoked directly
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  r62513 | georg.brandl | 2008-04-26 20:31:07 +0200 (Sat, 26 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  #2691: document PyLong (s)size_t APIs, patch by Alexander Belopolsky.
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  r62514 | georg.brandl | 2008-04-26 20:32:17 +0200 (Sat, 26 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Add missing return type to dealloc.
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  r62516 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-04-27 02:52:24 +0200 (Sun, 27 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Fixed URL of PEP 205 in weakref's module docstring.
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  r62521 | georg.brandl | 2008-04-27 11:39:59 +0200 (Sun, 27 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  #2677: add note that not all functions may accept keyword args.
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  r62531 | georg.brandl | 2008-04-27 19:38:55 +0200 (Sun, 27 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Use correct XHTML tags.
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  r62535 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-04-27 20:14:39 +0200 (Sun, 27 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  #2700 Document PyNumber_ToBase
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  r62545 | skip.montanaro | 2008-04-27 22:53:57 +0200 (Sun, 27 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  minor wording changes, rewrap a few lines
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  r62546 | kurt.kaiser | 2008-04-27 23:07:41 +0200 (Sun, 27 Apr 2008) | 7 lines

  Home / Control-A toggles between left margin and end of leading white
  space.  Patch 1196903 Jeff Shute.

  M    idlelib/PyShell.py
  M    idlelib/EditorWindow.py
  M    idlelib/NEWS.txt
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  r62548 | kurt.kaiser | 2008-04-27 23:38:05 +0200 (Sun, 27 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Improved AutoCompleteWindow logic.  Patch 2062 Tal Einat.
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  r62549 | kurt.kaiser | 2008-04-27 23:52:19 +0200 (Sun, 27 Apr 2008) | 4 lines

  Autocompletion of filenames now support alternate separators, e.g. the
  '/' char on Windows.  Patch 2061 Tal Einat.
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  r62550 | skip.montanaro | 2008-04-28 00:49:56 +0200 (Mon, 28 Apr 2008) | 6 lines

  A few small changes:
  * The only exception we should catch when trying to import cStringIO is an
    ImportError.
  * Delete the function signatures embedded in the mk*temp docstrings.
  * The tempdir global variable was initialized twice.
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  r62551 | skip.montanaro | 2008-04-28 00:52:02 +0200 (Mon, 28 Apr 2008) | 4 lines

  Wrap some long paragraphs and include the default values for optional
  function parameters.
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  r62553 | skip.montanaro | 2008-04-28 04:57:23 +0200 (Mon, 28 Apr 2008) | 7 lines

  Minor cleanups:
  * Avoid creating unused local variables where we can.  Where we can't prefix
    the unused variables with '_'.
  * Avoid shadowing builtins where it won't change the external interface of a
    function.
  * Use None as default path arg to readmodule and readmodule_ex.
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  r62554 | skip.montanaro | 2008-04-28 04:59:45 +0200 (Mon, 28 Apr 2008) | 6 lines

  Correct documentation to match implementation: "Class" instead of
  "class_descriptor", "Function" instead of "function_descriptor".  Note
  default path value for readmodule*.  Wrap some long paragraphs.  Don't
  mention 'inpackage' which isn't part of the public API.
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  r62555 | brett.cannon | 2008-04-28 05:23:50 +0200 (Mon, 28 Apr 2008) | 5 lines

  Fix a bug introduced by the warnings rewrite where tracebacks were being
  improperly indented.

  Closes issue #2699.
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  r62556 | skip.montanaro | 2008-04-28 05:25:37 +0200 (Mon, 28 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Wrap some long lines.
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  r62557 | skip.montanaro | 2008-04-28 05:27:53 +0200 (Mon, 28 Apr 2008) | 6 lines

  Get rid of _test(), _main(), _debug() and _check().  Tests are no longer
  needed (better set available in Lib/test/test_robotparser.py).  Clean up a
  few PEP 8 nits (compound statements on a single line, whitespace around
  operators).
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  r62558 | brett.cannon | 2008-04-28 06:50:06 +0200 (Mon, 28 Apr 2008) | 3 lines

  Rename the test_traceback_print() function to traceback_print() to prevent
  test_capi from automatically calling the function.
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  r62559 | georg.brandl | 2008-04-28 07:16:30 +0200 (Mon, 28 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix markup.
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  r62569 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-04-28 23:07:06 +0200 (Mon, 28 Apr 2008) | 5 lines

  test_sundry performs minimal tests (a simple import...) on modules that are not tested otherwise.

  Some of them now have tests and can be removed.
  Only 70 to go...
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  r62574 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-29 04:03:54 +0200 (Tue, 29 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Strip down SSL docs; I'm not managing to get test programs working, so I'll just give a minimal description
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  r62577 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-04-29 08:10:53 +0200 (Tue, 29 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Add Rodrigo and Heiko.
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  r62593 | nick.coghlan | 2008-04-30 16:23:36 +0200 (Wed, 30 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Update command line usage documentation to reflect 2.6 changes (also includes some minor cleanups). Addresses TODO list issue 2258
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  r62595 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-30 18:19:55 +0200 (Wed, 30 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Typo fix
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  r62604 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-04-30 23:03:58 +0200 (Wed, 30 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  make test_support's captured_output a bit more robust when exceptions happen
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  r62605 | georg.brandl | 2008-04-30 23:08:42 +0200 (Wed, 30 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  #1748: use functools.wraps instead of rolling own metadata update.
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  r62606 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-04-30 23:25:55 +0200 (Wed, 30 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Remove some from __future__ import with_statements
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  r62608 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-01 00:03:36 +0200 (Thu, 01 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix typo in whatsnew
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  r62616 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-01 20:24:32 +0200 (Thu, 01 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix synopsis.
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  r62626 | brett.cannon | 2008-05-02 04:25:09 +0200 (Fri, 02 May 2008) | 6 lines

  Fix a backwards-compatibility mistake where a new optional argument for
  warnings.showwarning() was being used. This broke pre-existing replacements for
  the function since they didn't support the extra argument.

  Closes issue 2705.
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  r62627 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-05-02 09:26:52 +0200 (Fri, 02 May 2008) | 20 lines

  This should fix issue2632.  A long description of the two competing
  problems is in the bug report (one old, one recently introduced trying
  to fix the old one).  In short:

  buffer data during socket._fileobject.read() and readlines() within a
  cStringIO object instead of a [] of str()s returned from the recv()
  call.

  This prevents excessive memory use due to the size parameter being
  passed to recv() being grossly larger than the actual size of the data
  returned *and* prevents excessive cpu usage due to looping in python
  calling recv() with a very tiny size value if min() is used as the
  previous memory-use bug "fix" did.

  It also documents what the socket._fileobject._rbufsize member is
  actually used for.

  This is a candidate for back porting to 2.5.
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  r62636 | mark.hammond | 2008-05-02 14:48:15 +0200 (Fri, 02 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #2581: Vista UAC/elevation support for bdist_wininst
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  r62638 | facundo.batista | 2008-05-02 19:39:00 +0200 (Fri, 02 May 2008) | 3 lines


  Fixed some test structures. Thanks Mark Dickinson.
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  r62644 | ronald.oussoren | 2008-05-02 21:45:11 +0200 (Fri, 02 May 2008) | 7 lines

  Fix for issue #2573: Can't change the framework name on OS X builds

  This introduces a new configure option: --with-framework-name=NAME
  (defaulting to 'Python'). This allows you to install several copies
  of the Python framework with different names (such as a normal build
  and a debug build).
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  r62645 | ronald.oussoren | 2008-05-02 21:58:56 +0200 (Fri, 02 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Finish fix for issue2573, previous patch was incomplete.
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  r62647 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-05-02 23:30:20 +0200 (Fri, 02 May 2008) | 13 lines

  Merged revisions 62263-62646 via svnmerge from
  svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/sandbox/trunk/2to3/lib2to3

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    r62470 | david.wolever | 2008-04-24 02:11:07 +0200 (Do, 24 Apr 2008) | 3 lines

    Fixed up and applied the patch for #2431 -- speeding up 2to3 with a lookup table.
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    r62646 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-05-02 23:29:27 +0200 (Fr, 02 Mai 2008) | 2 lines

    Fix whitespace.
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  r62648 | ronald.oussoren | 2008-05-02 23:42:35 +0200 (Fri, 02 May 2008) | 4 lines

  Fix for #1905: PythonLauncher not working correctly on OSX 10.5/Leopard

  This fixes both Python Launchar and the terminalcommand module.
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  r62651 | ronald.oussoren | 2008-05-02 23:54:56 +0200 (Fri, 02 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix for issue #2520 (cannot import macerrors)
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  r62652 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-03 00:12:58 +0200 (Sat, 03 May 2008) | 2 lines

  capitalization nit for reStructuredText
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  r62653 | brett.cannon | 2008-05-03 03:02:41 +0200 (Sat, 03 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix some indentation errors.
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  r62656 | brett.cannon | 2008-05-03 05:19:39 +0200 (Sat, 03 May 2008) | 6 lines

  Fix the C implementation of 'warnings' to infer the filename of the module that
  raised an exception properly when __file__ is not set, __name__ == '__main__',
  and sys.argv[0] is a false value.

  Closes issue2743.
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  r62661 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-05-03 14:21:13 +0200 (Sat, 03 May 2008) | 8 lines

  In test_io, StatefulIncrementalDecoderTest was not part of the test suite.
  And of course, the test failed:
  a bytearray was used without reason in io.TextIOWrapper.tell().

  The difference is that iterating over bytes (i.e. str in python2.6) returns 1-char bytes,
  whereas bytearrays yield integers.
  This code should still work with python3.0
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  r62663 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-03 17:56:42 +0200 (Sat, 03 May 2008) | 2 lines

  The compiling struct is now passed around to all AST helpers (see issue 2720)
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  r62680 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-03 23:35:18 +0200 (Sat, 03 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Moved testing of builtin types out of test_builtin and into type specific modules
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  r62686 | mark.dickinson | 2008-05-04 04:25:46 +0200 (Sun, 04 May 2008) | 4 lines

  Make sure that Context traps and flags dictionaries have values 0 and 1
  (as documented) rather than True and False.
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  r62687 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-04 05:05:49 +0200 (Sun, 04 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix typo in whatsnew
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  r62696 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-04 11:15:04 +0200 (Sun, 04 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #2752: wrong meaning of '' for socket host.
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  r62699 | christian.heimes | 2008-05-04 13:50:53 +0200 (Sun, 04 May 2008) | 1 line

  Added note that Python requires at least Win2k SP4
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  r62700 | gerhard.haering | 2008-05-04 14:59:57 +0200 (Sun, 04 May 2008) | 3 lines

  SQLite requires 64-bit integers in order to build. So the whole HAVE_LONG_LONG
  #ifdefing was useless.
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  r62701 | gerhard.haering | 2008-05-04 15:15:12 +0200 (Sun, 04 May 2008) | 3 lines

  Applied sqliterow-richcmp.diff patch from Thomas Heller in Issue2152. The
  sqlite3.Row type is now correctly hashable.
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  r62702 | gerhard.haering | 2008-05-04 15:42:44 +0200 (Sun, 04 May 2008) | 5 lines

  Implemented feature request 2157: Converter names are cut off at '('
  characters. This avoids the common case of something like 'NUMBER(10)' not
  being parsed as 'NUMBER', like expected. Also corrected the docs about
  converter names being case-sensitive. They aren't any longer.
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  r62703 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-04 17:45:05 +0200 (Sun, 04 May 2008) | 2 lines

  #2757: Remove spare newline.
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  r62711 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-04 21:10:02 +0200 (Sun, 04 May 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix typo in bugs.rst
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.. _reporting-bugs:
************************
Reporting Bugs in Python
************************
Python is a mature programming language which has established a reputation for
stability. In order to maintain this reputation, the developers would like to
know of any deficiencies you find in Python.
If you find errors in the documentation, please use either the "Add a comment"
or the "Suggest a change" features of the relevant page in the most recent
online documentation at http://docs.python.org/.
All other bug reports should be submitted via the Python Bug Tracker
(http://bugs.python.org/). The bug tracker offers a Web form which allows
pertinent information to be entered and submitted to the developers.
The first step in filing a report is to determine whether the problem has
already been reported. The advantage in doing so, aside from saving the
developers time, is that you learn what has been done to fix it; it may be that
the problem has already been fixed for the next release, or additional
information is needed (in which case you are welcome to provide it if you can!).
To do this, search the bug database using the search box on the top of the page.
If the problem you're reporting is not already in the bug tracker, go back to
the Python Bug Tracker. If you don't already have a tracker account, select the
"Register" link in the sidebar and undergo the registration procedure.
Otherwise, if you're not logged in, enter your credentials and select "Login".
It is not possible to submit a bug report anonymously.
Being now logged in, you can submit a bug. Select the "Create New" link in the
sidebar to open the bug reporting form.
The submission form has a number of fields. For the "Title" field, enter a
*very* short description of the problem; less than ten words is good. In the
"Type" field, select the type of your problem; also select the "Component" and
"Versions" to which the bug relates.
In the "Comment" field, describe the problem in detail, including what you
expected to happen and what did happen. Be sure to include whether any
extension modules were involved, and what hardware and software platform you
were using (including version information as appropriate).
Each bug report will be assigned to a developer who will determine what needs to
be done to correct the problem. You will receive an update each time action is
taken on the bug.
.. seealso::
`How to Report Bugs Effectively <http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html>`_
Article which goes into some detail about how to create a useful bug report.
This describes what kind of information is useful and why it is useful.
`Bug Writing Guidelines <http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Bug_writing_guidelines>`_
Information about writing a good bug report. Some of this is specific to the
Mozilla project, but describes general good practices.