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  r70712 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-30 10:15:38 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  don't rely on the order dict repr #5605
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  r70714 | brett.cannon | 2009-03-30 10:20:53 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  Add an entry to developers.txt.
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  r70764 | martin.v.loewis | 2009-03-30 17:06:33 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 2 lines

  Add several VM developers.
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  r70765 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-30 17:09:34 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #5199: make warning about vars() assignment more visible.
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  r70769 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-03-30 17:29:53 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  Remove comment
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  r70770 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-03-30 17:30:20 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  Add several items and placeholders
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  r70771 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-03-30 17:31:11 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  Many edits
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  r70773 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-30 17:43:00 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #5039: make it clear that the impl. note refers to CPython.
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  r70776 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-03-30 18:08:24 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  typo fix
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  r70777 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-03-30 18:09:46 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  Add more items
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  r70788 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-03-30 20:21:01 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  Add various items
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  r70789 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-30 20:25:15 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  Fix a wrong struct field assignment (docstring as closure).
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  r70824 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 10:43:20 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #5519: remove reference to Kodos, which seems dead.
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  r70828 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 10:50:16 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #5581: fget argument of abstractproperty is optional as well.
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  r70832 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 11:31:11 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #1386675: specify WindowsError as the exception, because it has a winerror attribute that EnvironmentError doesnt have.
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  r70836 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 11:50:25 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #5417: replace references to undocumented functions by ones to documented functions.
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  r70842 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 12:13:06 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #970783: document PyObject_Generic[GS]etAttr.
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  r70851 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 13:26:55 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #837577: note cryptic return value of spawn*e on invalid env dicts.
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  r70855 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 13:30:37 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #5245: note that PyRun_SimpleString doesnt return on SystemExit.
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  r70857 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 13:33:10 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #5227: note that Py_Main doesnt return on SystemExit.
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  r70866 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 14:06:57 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #4882: document named group behavior a bit better.
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  r70867 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 14:10:35 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #1096310: document usage of sys.__std*__ a bit better.
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  r70868 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 14:12:17 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #5190: export make_option in __all__.
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  r70869 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 14:14:42 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  Fix-up unwanted change.
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  r70870 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 14:26:24 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #4411: document mro() and __mro__. (I hope I got it right.)
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  r70871 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 14:30:56 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #5618: fix typo.
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  r70872 | r.david.murray | 2009-03-31 14:31:17 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 3 lines

  Delete out-of-date and little-known README from the test
  directory by consensus of devs at pycon sprint.
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  r70883 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 15:41:08 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #1674032: return value of flag from Event.wait(). OKed by Guido.
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  r70885 | tarek.ziade | 2009-03-31 15:48:31 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  using log.warn for sys.stderr
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  r70893 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 15:56:32 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #1530012: move TQS section before raw strings.
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  r70894 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-31 16:06:30 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  take the usual lock precautions around _active_limbo_lock
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  r70896 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 16:15:33 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #5598: document DocFileSuite *args argument.
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  r70897 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-31 16:34:42 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  fix Thread.ident when it is the main thread or a dummy thread #5632
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  r70903 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 16:45:18 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #1676135: remove trailing slashes from --prefix argument.
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  r70905 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 17:03:40 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #5563: more documentation for bdist_msi.
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  r70906 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 17:11:53 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #1651995: fix _convert_ref for non-ASCII characters.
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  r70907 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 17:18:19 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #3427: document correct return type for urlopen().info().
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  r70915 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 17:40:16 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  #5018: remove confusing paragraph.
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  r70927 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 18:01:27 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  Dont shout to users.
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  r70933 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 19:04:33 -0500 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) | 2 lines

  Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
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  r70951 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 09:02:27 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Add Maksim, who worked on several issues at the sprint.
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  r70960 | jesse.noller | 2009-04-01 11:42:19 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Issue 3270: document Listener address restrictions on windows
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  r70962 | brett.cannon | 2009-04-01 12:07:16 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 2 lines

  Ron DuPlain was given commit privileges at PyCon 2009 to work on 3to2.
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  r70963 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 12:46:01 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  #5655: fix docstring oversight.
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  r70964 | brett.cannon | 2009-04-01 12:52:13 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 2 lines

  Paul Kippes was given commit privileges to work on 3to2.
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  r70998 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 16:54:21 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  In Pdb, stop assigning values to __builtin__._ which interferes with the one commonly installed by gettext.
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  r71001 | brett.cannon | 2009-04-01 18:01:12 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 3 lines

  Add my initials to Misc/developers.txt. Names are now sorted by number of
  characters in the person's name.
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  r71006 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 18:32:17 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Cache the f_locals dict of the current frame, since every access to frame.f_locals overrides its contents with the real locals which undoes modifications made by the debugging user.
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  r71008 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-04-01 19:02:14 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Typo fix
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  r71010 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-04-01 19:11:52 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  fix markup
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  r71011 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-04-01 19:12:47 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  this should be :noindex:
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  r71019 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 21:00:01 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Fix test_doctest, missed two assignments to curframe.
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  r71037 | r.david.murray | 2009-04-01 23:34:04 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 6 lines

  Clarify that datetime strftime does not produce leap seconds and datetime
  strptime does not accept it in the strftime behavior section of the
  datetime docs.

  Closes issue 2568.
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  r71056 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-02 12:43:07 -0500 (Thu, 02 Apr 2009) | 2 lines

  Actually the displayhook should print the repr.
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  r71094 | vinay.sajip | 2009-04-03 05:23:18 -0500 (Fri, 03 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Added warning about logging use from asynchronous signal handlers.
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  r71101 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-04-03 16:43:00 -0500 (Fri, 03 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Add some items
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  r71102 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-04-03 16:44:49 -0500 (Fri, 03 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Fix 'the the'; grammar fix
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  r71103 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-04-03 16:45:29 -0500 (Fri, 03 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Fix 'the the' duplication
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  r71106 | vinay.sajip | 2009-04-03 16:58:16 -0500 (Fri, 03 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Clarified warning about logging use from asynchronous signal handlers.
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  r71119 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-04-04 00:37:47 -0500 (Sat, 04 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Add helpful link.
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  r71123 | r.david.murray | 2009-04-04 01:39:56 -0500 (Sat, 04 Apr 2009) | 2 lines

  Fix error in description of 'oct' (issue 5678).
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  r71149 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-04 08:42:39 -0500 (Sat, 04 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  #5642: clarify map() compatibility to the builtin.
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  r71150 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-04 08:45:49 -0500 (Sat, 04 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  #5601: clarify that webbrowser is not meant for file names.
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  r71203 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-04-04 18:46:34 -0500 (Sat, 04 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  note how using iter* are unsafe while mutating and document iter(dict)
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  r71212 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-05 05:24:20 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  #1742837: expand HTTP server docs, and fix SocketServer ones to document methods as methods, not functions.
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  r71214 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-05 05:29:57 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Normalize spelling of Mac OS X.
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  r71215 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-05 05:32:26 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Avoid sure signs of a diseased mind.
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  r71216 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-05 05:41:02 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  #1718017: document the relation of os.path and the posixpath, ntpath etc. modules better.
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  r71217 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-05 05:48:47 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  #1726172: dont raise an unexpected IndexError if a voidresp() call has an empty response.
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  r71221 | vinay.sajip | 2009-04-05 06:06:24 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Issue #5695: Moved logging.captureWarnings() call inside with statement in WarningsTest.test_warnings.
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  r71240 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-05 09:40:06 -0500 (Sun, 05 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  #5370: doc update about unpickling objects with custom __getattr__ etc. methods.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
index 0dbd0e2..fade6ec 100644
--- a/Doc/library/re.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/re.rst
@@ -8,10 +8,9 @@
 .. sectionauthor:: Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>
 
 
-
-
 This module provides regular expression matching operations similar to
-those found in Perl.  The :mod:`re` module is always available.
+those found in Perl. Both patterns and strings to be searched can be
+Unicode strings as well as 8-bit strings.
 
 Both patterns and strings to be searched can be Unicode strings as well as
 8-bit strings. However, Unicode strings and 8-bit strings cannot be mixed:
@@ -47,9 +46,6 @@ fine-tuning parameters.
       second edition of the book no longer covers Python at all, but the first
       edition covered writing good regular expression patterns in great detail.
 
-   `Kodos <http://kodos.sf.net/>`_
-      is a graphical regular expression debugger written in Python.
-
 
 .. _re-syntax:
 
@@ -241,16 +237,18 @@ The special characters are:
 
 ``(?P<name>...)``
    Similar to regular parentheses, but the substring matched by the group is
-   accessible via the symbolic group name *name*.  Group names must be valid Python
-   identifiers, and each group name must be defined only once within a regular
-   expression.  A symbolic group is also a numbered group, just as if the group
-   were not named.  So the group named 'id' in the example below can also be
-   referenced as the numbered group 1.
+   accessible within the rest of the regular expression via the symbolic group
+   name *name*.  Group names must be valid Python identifiers, and each group
+   name must be defined only once within a regular expression.  A symbolic group
+   is also a numbered group, just as if the group were not named.  So the group
+   named ``id`` in the example below can also be referenced as the numbered group
+   ``1``.
 
    For example, if the pattern is ``(?P<id>[a-zA-Z_]\w*)``, the group can be
    referenced by its name in arguments to methods of match objects, such as
-   ``m.group('id')`` or ``m.end('id')``, and also by name in pattern text (for
-   example, ``(?P=id)``) and replacement text (such as ``\g<id>``).
+   ``m.group('id')`` or ``m.end('id')``, and also by name in the regular
+   expression itself (using ``(?P=id)``) and replacement text given to
+   ``.sub()`` (using ``\g<id>``).
 
 ``(?P=name)``
    Matches whatever text was matched by the earlier group named *name*.