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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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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/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
index 21ccf9b..df5ccb6 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
@@ -1681,6 +1681,11 @@ details.
   available, instead of restricting itself to protocol 1.
   (Contributed by W. Barnes; :issue:`1551443`.)
 
+* The :mod:`cgi` module will now read variables from the query string of an 
+  HTTP POST request.  This makes it possible to use form actions with 
+  URLs such as "/cgi-bin/add.py?category=1".  (Contributed by 
+  Alexandre Fiori and Nubis; :issue:`1817`.)
+
 * The :mod:`cmath` module underwent an extensive set of revisions,
   thanks to Mark Dickinson and Christian Heimes, that added some new
   features and greatly improved the accuracy of the computations.
@@ -2137,6 +2142,24 @@ details.
 * The :mod:`sets` module has been deprecated; it's better to
   use the built-in :class:`set` and :class:`frozenset` types.
 
+* The :func:`shutil.copytree` function now has an optional **ignore** argument
+  that takes a callable object.  This callable will receive each directory path
+  and a list of the directory's contents, and returns a list of names that
+  will be ignored, not copied.  
+
+  The :mod:`shutil` module also provides an :func:`ignore_patterns`
+  function for use with this new parameter.
+  :func:`ignore_patterns` takes an arbitrary number of glob-style patterns
+  and will ignore any files and directories that match this pattern.
+  The following example copies a directory tree, but skip both SVN's internal
+  :file:`.svn` directories and Emacs backup 
+  files, which have names ending with '~'::
+
+      shutil.copytree('Doc/library', '/tmp/library', 
+                      ignore=shutil.ignore_patterns('*~', '.svn'))
+
+  (Contributed by Tarek Ziadé; :issue:`2663`.)
+
 * Integrating signal handling with GUI handling event loops
   like those used by Tkinter or GTk+ has long been a problem; most
   software ends up polling, waking up every fraction of a second.
@@ -2500,9 +2523,10 @@ handle it safely::
       ...
     ValueError: malformed string
 
-The module also includes 
-:class:`NodeVisitor` and :class:`NodeTransformer` classes 
-for traversing and modifying an AST, and functions for common transformations such as changing line numbers.
+The module also includes :class:`NodeVisitor` and
+:class:`NodeTransformer` classes for traversing and modifying an AST,
+and functions for common transformations such as changing line
+numbers.
 
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