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  r60151 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-21 14:11:15 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  A bunch of header files were not listed as dependencies for object files. Changes to files like Parser/parser.h weren't picked up by make.
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  r60152 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 15:16:46 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  #1087741: make mmap.mmap the type of mmap objects, not a
  factory function. Allow it to be subclassed.
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  r60153 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 15:18:14 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  mmap is an extension module.
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  r60154 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 17:28:13 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix example.
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  r60155 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 17:34:07 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  #1555501: document plistlib and move it to the general library.
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  r60156 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 17:36:00 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Add a stub for bundlebuilder documentation.
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  r60157 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 17:46:58 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Removing bundlebuilder docs again -- it's not to be used anymore (see #779825).
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  r60158 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 17:51:51 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  #997912: acknowledge nested scopes in tutorial.
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  r60159 | vinay.sajip | 2008-01-21 18:02:26 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Fix: #1836: Off-by-one bug in TimedRotatingFileHandler rollover calculation. Patch thanks to Kathryn M. Kowalski.
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  r60161 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 18:13:03 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Adapt pydoc to new doc URLs.
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  r60162 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 18:17:00 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix old link.
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  r60163 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 18:22:06 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  #1726198: replace while 1: fp.readline() with file iteration.
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  r60164 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 18:29:23 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Clarify $ behavior in re docstring. #1631394.
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  r60165 | vinay.sajip | 2008-01-21 18:39:22 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Minor documentation change - hyperlink tidied up.
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  r60166 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 18:42:40 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  #1530959: change distutils build dir for --with-pydebug python builds.
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  r60167 | vinay.sajip | 2008-01-21 19:16:05 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Updated to include news on recent logging fixes and documentation changes.
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  r60168 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 19:35:49 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  Issue #1882: when compiling code from a string, encoding cookies in the
  second line of code were not always recognized correctly.
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  r60170 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 19:36:51 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Add NEWS entry for #1882.
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  r60172 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 19:41:24 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Use original location of document, which has translations.
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  r60173 | walter.doerwald | 2008-01-21 21:18:04 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Follow PEP 8 in module docstring.
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  r60175 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-21 21:20:53 +0100 (Mon, 21 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Adapt to latest doctools refactoring.
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/re.py b/Lib/re.py
index 1e0c468..91b119c 100644
--- a/Lib/re.py
+++ b/Lib/re.py
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ concatenate ordinary characters, so last matches the string 'last'.
 The special characters are:
     "."      Matches any character except a newline.
     "^"      Matches the start of the string.
-    "$"      Matches the end of the string.
+    "$"      Matches the end of the string or just before the newline at
+             the end of the string.
     "*"      Matches 0 or more (greedy) repetitions of the preceding RE.
              Greedy means that it will match as many repetitions as possible.
     "+"      Matches 1 or more (greedy) repetitions of the preceding RE.
@@ -83,8 +84,10 @@ This module exports the following functions:
 Some of the functions in this module takes flags as optional parameters:
     I  IGNORECASE  Perform case-insensitive matching.
     L  LOCALE      Make \w, \W, \b, \B, dependent on the current locale.
-    M  MULTILINE   "^" matches the beginning of lines as well as the string.
-                   "$" matches the end of lines as well as the string.
+    M  MULTILINE   "^" matches the beginning of lines (after a newline)
+                   as well as the string.
+                   "$" matches the end of lines (before a newline) as well
+                   as the end of the string.
     S  DOTALL      "." matches any character at all, including the newline.
     X  VERBOSE     Ignore whitespace and comments for nicer looking RE's.
     U  UNICODE     Make \w, \W, \b, \B, dependent on the Unicode locale.