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  r57820 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-31 08:59:27 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Document new shorthand notation for index entries.
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  r57827 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-31 10:47:51 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix subitem markup.
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  r57833 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-08-31 12:01:07 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line

  Mark registry components as 64-bit on Win64.
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  r57854 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:02:23 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line

  deprecate use of FakeSocket
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  r57855 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:02:46 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line

  remove mentions of socket.ssl in comments
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  r57856 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:03:31 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line

  remove use of non-existent SSLFakeSocket in apparently untested code
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  r57859 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-01 08:36:03 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 3 lines

  Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF.
  Will backport to 2.5.
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  r57865 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-01 09:51:24 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix RST link (backport from Py3k).
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  r57876 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-01 17:49:49 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines

  Document sets' ">" and "<" operations (backport from py3k).
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  r57878 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-01 19:40:03 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 4 lines

  Added a note and examples to explain that re.split does not split on an
  empty pattern match. (issue 852532).
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  r57879 | walter.doerwald | 2007-09-01 20:18:09 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix wrong function names.
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  r57880 | walter.doerwald | 2007-09-01 20:34:05 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix typo.
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  r57889 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 22:31:59 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line

  Markup fix
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  r57892 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 22:43:36 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line

  Add various items
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  r57895 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 23:17:58 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line

  Wording change
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  r57896 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 23:18:31 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line

  Add more items
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  r57904 | ronald.oussoren | 2007-09-02 11:46:07 +0200 (Sun, 02 Sep 2007) | 3 lines

  Macosx: this patch ensures that the value of MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET used
  by the Makefile is also used at configure-time.
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  r57925 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-03 09:16:46 +0200 (Mon, 03 Sep 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix #883466: don't allow Unicode as arguments to quopri and uu codecs.
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  r57936 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 01:33:04 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines

  - Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.6.x.
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  r57954 | mark.summerfield | 2007-09-04 10:16:15 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines

  Added cross-references plus a note about dict & list shallow copying.
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  r57958 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 11:51:57 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines

  Document that we rely on the OS to release the crypto
  context. Fixes #1626801.
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  r57960 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 15:13:14 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines

  Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and
  get_completion_type to readline.
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  r57961 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 16:19:28 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines

  Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its original
  source encoding. Will backport to 2.5.
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  r57972 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 20:17:36 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines

  - Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script pybuildbot.identify
    to include some information about the build environment.
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  r57973 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 21:05:38 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines

  - Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Remove whitespace at eol.
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  r57975 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 22:46:02 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines

  - Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*.
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  r57980 | bill.janssen | 2007-09-05 02:46:27 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 1 line

  SSL certificate distinguished names should be represented by tuples
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  r57985 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-05 08:39:17 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 3 lines

  Patch #1105: Explain that one needs to build the solution
  to get dependencies right.
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  r57987 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-05 09:51:21 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 4 lines

  PyDict_GetItem() returns a borrowed reference.
  There are probably a number of places that are open to attacks
  such as the following one, in bltinmodule.c:min_max().
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  r57991 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-05 13:47:34 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 3 lines

  Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to
  a readonly source.
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  r57993 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-05 15:36:44 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 2 lines

  Backport from Py3k: Bug #1684991: explain lookup semantics for __special__ methods (new-style classes only).
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  r58004 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-06 10:30:51 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 4 lines

  Patch #1733973 by peaker:
  ptrace_enter_call() assumes no exception is currently set.
  This assumption is broken when throwing into a generator.
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  r58006 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-06 11:30:38 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 4 lines

  PyDict_GetItem() returns a borrowed reference.
  This attack is against ceval.c:IMPORT_NAME, which calls an
  object (__builtin__.__import__) without holding a reference to it.
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  r58013 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-06 16:49:56 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 2 lines

  Backport from 3k: #1116: fix reference to old filename.
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  r58021 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-06 22:26:20 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 1 line

  Fix typo:  c_float represents to C float type.
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  r58022 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-07 00:29:06 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 3 lines

  If this is correct for py3k branch and it's already in the release25-maint
  branch, seems like it ought to be on the trunk as well.
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  r58023 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-09-07 00:59:59 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 4 lines

  Apply the fix from Issue1112 to make this test more robust and keep
  windows happy.
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  r58031 | brett.cannon | 2007-09-07 05:17:50 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 4 lines

  Make uuid1 and uuid4 tests conditional on whether ctypes can be imported;
  implementation of either function depends on ctypes but uuid as a whole does
  not.
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  r58032 | brett.cannon | 2007-09-07 06:18:30 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 6 lines

  Fix a crasher where Python code managed to infinitely recurse in C code without
  ever going back out to Python code in PyObject_Call().  Required introducing a
  static RuntimeError instance so that normalizing an exception there is no
  reliance on a recursive call that would put the exception system over the
  recursion check itself.
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  r58034 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 08:32:17 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 1 line

  Add a 'c_longdouble' type to the ctypes module.
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  r58035 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 11:30:40 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 1 line

  Remove unneeded #include.
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  r58036 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 11:33:24 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 6 lines

  Backport from py3k branch:

  Add a workaround for a strange bug on win64, when _ctypes is compiled
  with the SDK compiler.  This should fix the failing
  Lib\ctypes\test\test_as_parameter.py test.
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  r58037 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-07 16:14:40 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix a wrong indentation for sublists.
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  r58043 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-07 22:10:49 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 2 lines

  #1095: ln -f doesn't work portably, fix in Makefile.
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  r58049 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-08 02:34:17 +0200 (Sat, 08 Sep 2007) | 1 line

  be explicit about the actual location of the missing file
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
index b0e731a..dd537d3 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
@@ -73,6 +73,20 @@ Other Language Changes
 
 Here are all of the changes that Python 2.6 makes to the core Python language.
 
+* The :func:`complex` constructor now accepts strings containing 
+  parenthesized complex numbers, letting ``complex(repr(cmplx))``
+  will now round-trip values.  For example, ``complex('(3+4j)')``
+  now returns the value (3+4j).
+
+  .. % Patch 1491866
+
+* The string :meth:`translate` method now accepts ``None`` as the 
+  translation table parameter, which is treated as the identity 
+  transformation.   This makes it easier to carry out operations
+  that only delete characters.  (Contributed by Bengt Richter.)
+
+  .. % Patch 1193128
+
 * An obscure change: when you use the the :func:`locals` function inside a
   :keyword:`class` statement, the resulting dictionary no longer returns free
   variables.  (Free variables, in this case, are variables referred to in the
@@ -124,6 +138,11 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the CVS logs for all the details.
 
   (Contributed by Fabian Kreutz.)
 
+* An optional ``timeout`` parameter was added to the
+  :class:`ftplib.FTP` class constructor as well as the :meth:`connect`
+  method, specifying a timeout measured in seconds.  (Added by Facundo
+  Batista.)
+
 * The :func:`glob.glob` function can now return Unicode filenames if 
   a Unicode path was used and Unicode filenames are matched within the directory.
 
@@ -157,6 +176,21 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the CVS logs for all the details.
 
   .. % Patch #1490190
 
+* In the :mod:`os.path` module, the :func:`splitext` function
+  has been changed to not split on leading period characters.
+  This produces better results when operating on Unix's dot-files.
+  For example, ``os.path.splitext('.ipython')``
+  now returns ``('.ipython', '')`` instead of ``('', '.ipython')``.
+
+  .. % Bug #115886
+
+  A new function, :func:`relpath(path, start)` returns a relative path
+  from the ``start`` path, if it's supplied, or from the current
+  working directory to the destination ``path``.  (Contributed by
+  Richard Barran.)
+
+  .. % Patch 1339796
+
 * New functions in the :mod:`posix` module: :func:`chflags` and :func:`lchflags`
   are wrappers for the corresponding system calls (where they're available).
   Constants for the flag values are defined in the :mod:`stat` module; some
@@ -166,14 +200,41 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the CVS logs for all the details.
 
 * The :mod:`rgbimg` module has been removed.
 
-* The :mod:`smtplib` module now supports SMTP over  SSL thanks to the addition
-  of the :class:`SMTP_SSL` class. This class supports an interface identical to
-  the existing :class:`SMTP`  class. (Contributed by Monty Taylor.)
+* The :mod:`smtplib` module now supports SMTP over SSL thanks to the
+  addition of the :class:`SMTP_SSL` class. This class supports an
+  interface identical to the existing :class:`SMTP` class.   Both 
+  class constructors also have an optional ``timeout`` parameter
+  that specifies a timeout for the initial connection attempt, measured in
+  seconds.
+
+  An implementation of the LMTP protocol (:rfc:`2033`) was also added to
+  the module.  LMTP is used in place of SMTP when transferring e-mail
+  between agents that don't manage a mail queue.
+
+  (SMTP over SSL contributed by Monty Taylor; timeout parameter
+  added by Facundo Batista; LMTP implemented by Leif
+  Hedstrom.)
+
+  .. % Patch #957003
+
+* An optional ``timeout`` parameter was added to the
+  :class:`telnetlib.Telnet` class constructor, specifying a timeout
+  measured in seconds.  (Added by Facundo Batista.)
 
 * The :mod:`test.test_support` module now contains a :func:`EnvironmentVarGuard`
   context manager that  supports temporarily changing environment variables and
   automatically restores them to their old values. (Contributed by Brett Cannon.)
 
+* The :mod:`timeit` module now accepts callables as well as strings 
+  for the statement being timed and for the setup code.
+  Two convenience functions were added for creating 
+  :class:`Timer` instances: 
+  ``repeat(stmt, setup, time, repeat, number)`` and 
+  ``timeit(stmt, setup, time, number)`` create an instance and call
+  the corresponding method. (Contributed by Erik Demaine.)
+
+  .. % Patch #1533909
+
 .. % ======================================================================
 .. % whole new modules get described in \subsections here