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  r60080 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-19 17:26:13 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Patch #742598 from Michael Pomraning: add .timeout attribute to SocketServer that will call
  .handle_timeout() method when no requests are received within the timeout period.
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  r60081 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-19 17:34:09 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 1 line

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  r60082 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-19 17:39:27 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Disabled test_xmlrpc:test_404. It's causing lots of false alarms.
  I also disabled a test in test_ssl which requires network access to svn.python.org. This fixes a bug Skip has reported a while ago.
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  r60083 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 18:38:53 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Clarify thread.join() docs. #1873.
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  r60084 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 19:02:46 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  #1782: don't leak in error case in PyModule_AddXxxConstant. Patch by Hrvoje Nik?\197?\161i?\196?\135.
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  r60085 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-19 19:08:52 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Sort two names into position
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  r60086 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-19 19:18:41 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Patch #976880: add mmap .rfind() method, and 'end' paramter to .find().
  Contributed by John Lenton.
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  r60087 | facundo.batista | 2008-01-19 19:38:19 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 5 lines


  Fix #1693149.  Now you can pass several modules separated by
  coma to trace.py in the same --ignore-module option.
  Thanks Raghuram Devarakonda.
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  r60088 | facundo.batista | 2008-01-19 19:45:46 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 3 lines


  Comment in NEWS regarding the change in trace.py.
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  r60089 | skip.montanaro | 2008-01-19 19:47:24 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  missing from r60088 checkin.
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  r60091 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-19 20:14:05 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 1 line

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  r60092 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 20:27:05 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 4 lines

  Fix #1679: "0x" was taken as a valid integer literal.
  Fixes the tokenizer, tokenize.py and int() to reject this.
  Patches by Malte Helmert.
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  r60093 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 20:48:19 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  Fix #1146: TextWrap vs words 1-character shorter than the width.
  Patch by Quentin Gallet-Gilles.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
index 46922a4..e386b36 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
@@ -960,6 +960,13 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the CVS logs for all the details.
 
   .. Patch #1490190
 
+* :class:`mmap` objects now have a :meth:`rfind` method that finds
+  a substring, beginning at the end of the string and searching
+  backwards.  The :meth:`find` method
+  also gained a *end* parameter containing the index at which to stop
+  the forward search.
+  (Contributed by John Lenton.)
+
 * The :mod:`new` module has been removed from Python 3.0.
   Importing it therefore
   triggers a warning message when Python is running in 3.0-warning
@@ -1102,6 +1109,13 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the CVS logs for all the details.
   (Contributed by Alberto Bertogli.)
 
   .. Patch #1646
+
+* The base classes in the :mod:`SocketServer` module now support
+  calling a :meth:`handle_timeout` method after a span of inactivity 
+  specified by the server's :attr:`timeout` attribute.  (Contributed 
+  by Michael Pomraning.)
+
+  .. Patch #742598
  
 * A new variable in the :mod:`sys` module,
   :attr:`float_info`, is an object