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  r64623 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-01 21:51:54 +0200 (Tue, 01 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  write a short little section for multiprocessing; it still needs help
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  r64640 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-01 22:56:03 +0200 (Tue, 01 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Add a comment about incref'ing w.
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  r64665 | jesse.noller | 2008-07-02 18:56:51 +0200 (Wed, 02 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Add #!/usr/bin/env python for ben
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  r64687 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-07-03 14:50:03 +0200 (Thu, 03 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Tweak wording
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  r64689 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-03 14:57:35 +0200 (Thu, 03 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  lowercase glossary term
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  r64690 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-03 15:01:17 +0200 (Thu, 03 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  let the term be linked
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  r64719 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-05 04:11:55 +0200 (Sat, 05 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Update comment on prediction macros.
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  r64721 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-05 12:07:18 +0200 (Sat, 05 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix tabs.
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  r64735 | mark.dickinson | 2008-07-05 17:25:48 +0200 (Sat, 05 Jul 2008) | 3 lines

  Minor rewrite of cmath_log to work around a Sun compiler bug.  See issue
  #3168.
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  r64742 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-05 18:29:38 +0200 (Sat, 05 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  make regrtest aware of the lib2to3 resource
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  r64744 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-05 18:43:45 +0200 (Sat, 05 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Keep below 80 chars.
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  r64745 | facundo.batista | 2008-07-05 21:19:50 +0200 (Sat, 05 Jul 2008) | 3 lines


  Issue 3289.  Removed two lines that ended doing nothing.
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  r64746 | facundo.batista | 2008-07-05 22:39:59 +0200 (Sat, 05 Jul 2008) | 4 lines


  Issue #3239. Differentiate the ascii call from the curses one and
  the builtin one.
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  r64756 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-07-06 09:16:40 +0200 (Sun, 06 Jul 2008) | 3 lines

  - Issue #2113: Fix error in subprocess.Popen if the select system call is
    interrupted by a signal.
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  r64757 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-06 14:39:09 +0200 (Sun, 06 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  remove test_compact_freelists from test_sys
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  r64758 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-07-06 19:06:29 +0200 (Sun, 06 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  fix issue3304 - remove an incorrect PyMem_Free in fileio_init
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  r64759 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-06 19:36:20 +0200 (Sun, 06 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix opensearch template.
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  r64760 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-07-06 19:43:16 +0200 (Sun, 06 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Wording fix
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  r64761 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-07-06 19:44:17 +0200 (Sun, 06 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Add two items; rewrap paragraph
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  r64767 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-07-07 06:31:58 +0200 (Mon, 07 Jul 2008) | 4 lines

  - Issue #3309: Fix bz2.BZFile itererator to release its internal lock
    properly when raising an exception due to the bz2file being closed.
    Prevents a deadlock.
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  r64768 | josiah.carlson | 2008-07-07 06:51:46 +0200 (Mon, 07 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Fixed bugs 760475, 953599, and 1519.
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  r64769 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-07-07 06:54:31 +0200 (Mon, 07 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Add commented out #_sha256 and #_sha512 lines per issue 3183.
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  r64771 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-07-07 07:09:12 +0200 (Mon, 07 Jul 2008) | 4 lines

  - Issue #3094: httplib.HTTPSConnection Host: headers no longer include the
    redundant ":443" port number designation when the connection is using the
    default https port (443).
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  r64772 | skip.montanaro | 2008-07-07 13:16:14 +0200 (Mon, 07 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Correct grammar.
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  r64774 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-07-07 18:51:09 +0200 (Mon, 07 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Fix example to match text
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  r64775 | facundo.batista | 2008-07-07 19:02:59 +0200 (Mon, 07 Jul 2008) | 3 lines


  Issue 3306. Better control for a lenght in findmax() function.
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  r64788 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-08 09:05:23 +0200 (Tue, 08 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Add missing ABCs to list.
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  r64793 | nick.coghlan | 2008-07-08 16:21:42 +0200 (Tue, 08 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Add missing NEWS and ACK entries for r64791
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  r64835 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-10 11:31:08 +0200 (Thu, 10 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Issue 3287: Raise correct exception for float inputs.
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  r64836 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-10 12:28:41 +0200 (Thu, 10 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Use operator.index() instead of n.__index__().
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diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst
index 5ab2f29..c295f29 100644
--- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst
@@ -78,18 +78,39 @@ copying and removal. For operations on individual files, see also the
    Unix command :program:`cp -p`.
 
 
-.. function:: copytree(src, dst[, symlinks])
+.. function:: ignore_patterns(\*patterns)
+
+   This factory function creates a function that can be used as a callable for
+   :func:`copytree`\'s *ignore* argument, ignoring files and directories that
+   match one of the glob-style *patterns* provided.  See the example below.
+
+
+.. function:: copytree(src, dst[, symlinks=False[, ignore=None]])
 
    Recursively copy an entire directory tree rooted at *src*.  The destination
-   directory, named by *dst*, must not already exist; it will be created as well as
-   missing parent directories. Permissions and times of directories are copied with
-   :func:`copystat`, individual files are copied using :func:`copy2`.   If
-   *symlinks* is true, symbolic links in the source tree are represented as
-   symbolic links in the new tree; if false or omitted, the contents of the linked
-   files are copied to the new tree.  If exception(s) occur, an :exc:`Error` is
-   raised with a list of reasons.
-
-   The source code for this should be considered an example rather than a tool.
+   directory, named by *dst*, must not already exist; it will be created as well
+   as missing parent directories.  Permissions and times of directories are
+   copied with :func:`copystat`, individual files are copied using
+   :func:`copy2`.
+
+   If *symlinks* is true, symbolic links in the source tree are represented as
+   symbolic links in the new tree; if false or omitted, the contents of the
+   linked files are copied to the new tree.
+
+   If *ignore* is given, it must be a callable that will receive as its
+   arguments the directory being visited by :func:`copytree`, and a list of its
+   contents, as returned by :func:`os.listdir`.  Since :func:`copytree` is
+   called recursively, the *ignore* callable will be called once for each
+   directory that is copied.  The callable must return a sequence of directory
+   and file names relative to the current directory (i.e. a subset of the items
+   in its second argument); these names will then be ignored in the copy
+   process.  :func:`ignore_patterns` can be used to create such a callable that
+   ignores names based on glob-style patterns.
+
+   If exception(s) occur, an :exc:`Error` is raised with a list of reasons.
+
+   The source code for this should be considered an example rather than the
+   ultimate tool.
 
 
 .. function:: rmtree(path[, ignore_errors[, onerror]])