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  r59822 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-07 17:43:47 +0100 (Mon, 07 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Restore "somenamedtuple" as the "class" for named tuple attrs.
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  r59824 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-07 18:09:35 +0100 (Mon, 07 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Patch #602345 by Neal Norwitz and me: add -B option and PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE envvar to skip writing bytecode.
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  r59827 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-07 18:25:53 +0100 (Mon, 07 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  patch #1668: clarify envvar docs; rename THREADDEBUG to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
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  r59830 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-07 19:16:36 +0100 (Mon, 07 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Make Python compile with --disable-unicode.
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  r59831 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-07 19:23:27 +0100 (Mon, 07 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Restructure urllib doc structure.
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  r59833 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-07 19:41:34 +0100 (Mon, 07 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix #define ordering.
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  r59834 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-07 19:47:44 +0100 (Mon, 07 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  #467924, patch by Alan McIntyre: Add ZipFile.extract and ZipFile.extractall.
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  r59835 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-07 19:52:19 +0100 (Mon, 07 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Fix inconsistent title levels -- it made the whole doc build crash horribly.
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  r59836 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-07 19:57:03 +0100 (Mon, 07 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix two further doc build warnings.
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  r59837 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-07 20:17:10 +0100 (Mon, 07 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Clarify metaclass docs and add example.
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  r59838 | vinay.sajip | 2008-01-07 20:40:10 +0100 (Mon, 07 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Added section about adding contextual information to log output.
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  r59839 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-07 20:58:41 +0100 (Mon, 07 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Fixed indention problem that caused the second TIPC test to run on systems without TIPC
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  r59840 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-07 21:07:38 +0100 (Mon, 07 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Cleanup named tuple subclassing example.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 8a77060..34690da 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,8 +12,20 @@ What's New in Python 3.0a3?
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+<<<<<<< .working
 - Issue #1762972: __file__ points to the source file instead of the pyc/pyo
   file if the py file exists.
+=======
+- Patch #1668: renamed THREADDEBUG envvar to PYTHONTHREADDEBUG.
+
+- Patch #602345: Add -B command line option, PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE envvar
+  and sys.dont_write_bytecode attribute. All these can be set to forbid Python
+  to attempt to write compiled bytecode files.
+
+- Improve some exception messages when Windows fails to load an extension
+  module. Now we get for example '%1 is not a valid Win32 application' instead
+  of 'error code 193'.
+>>>>>>> .merge-right.r59840
 
 - Issue #1393: object_richcompare() returns NotImplemented instead of
   False if the objects aren't equal, to give the other side a chance.
@@ -44,6 +56,890 @@ Core and Builtins
   of PyString.
 
 
+<<<<<<< .working
+=======
+- Issue #1534: Added ``PyFloat_GetMax()``, ``PyFloat_GetMin()`` and
+  ``PyFloat_GetInfo()`` to the float API.
+
+- Issue #1521: On 64bit platforms, using PyArgs_ParseTuple with the t# of w#
+  format code incorrectly truncated the length to an int, even when
+  PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is set.  The str.decode method used to return incorrect
+  results with huge strings.
+
+- Issue #1402: Fix a crash on exit, when another thread is still running, and
+  if the deallocation of its frames somehow calls the PyGILState_Ensure() /
+  PyGILState_Release() functions.
+
+- Expose the Py_Py3kWarningFlag as sys.py3kwarning.
+
+- Issue #1445: Fix a SystemError when accessing the ``cell_contents`` 
+  attribute of an empty cell object.
+
+- Issue #1460: The utf-7 incremental decoder did not accept truncated input.
+  It now correctly saves its state between chunks of data.
+
+- Patch #1739468: Directories and zipfiles containing a __main__.py file can
+  now be directly executed by passing their name to the interpreter. The
+  directory/zipfile is automatically inserted as the first entry in sys.path.
+
+- Issue #1265: Fix a problem with sys.settrace, if the tracing function uses a
+  generator expression when at the same time the executed code is closing a
+  paused generator.
+
+- sets and frozensets now have an isdisjoint() method.
+
+- optimize the performance of builtin.sum().
+
+- Fix warnings found by the new version of the Coverity checker.
+
+- The enumerate() builtin function is no longer bounded to sequences smaller
+  than LONG_MAX.  Formerly, it raised an OverflowError.  Now, automatically
+  shifts from ints to longs.
+
+- Issue #1686386: Tuple's tp_repr did not take into account the possibility of
+  having a self-referential tuple, which is possible from C code.  Nor did
+  object's tp_str consider that a type's tp_str could do something that could
+  lead to an inifinite recursion.  Py_ReprEnter() and Py_EnterRecursiveCall(),
+  respectively, fixed the issues.
+
+- Issue #1164: It was possible to trigger deadlock when using the 'print'
+  statement to write to a file since the GIL was not released as needed.  Now
+  PyObject_Print() does the right thing along with various tp_print
+  implementations of the built-in types and those in the collections module.
+
+- Issue #1147: Exceptions were directly allowing string exceptions in their
+  throw() method even though string exceptions no longer allowed.
+
+- Issue #1096: Prevent a segfault from getting the repr of a very deeply nested
+  list by using the recursion counter.
+
+- Issue #1202533: Fix infinite recursion calls triggered by calls to
+  PyObject_Call() never calling back out to Python code to trigger recursion
+  depth updates/checks.  Required the creation of a static RuntimeError
+  instance in case normalizing an exception put the recursion check value past
+  its limit.  Fixes crashers infinite_rec_(1|2|4|5).py.
+
+- Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its original source
+  encoding.
+
+- Py_ssize_t fields work in structmember when HAVE_LONG_LONG is not defined.
+
+- PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while keeping
+  backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size, and
+  PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
+
+- Patch #1673759: add a missing overflow check when formatting floats
+  with %G.
+
+- Patch #1733960: Allow T_LONGLONG to accept ints.
+
+- T_PYSSIZET can now be used in PyMemberDef lists for Py_ssize_t members.
+
+- Prevent expandtabs() on string and unicode objects from causing a segfault
+  when a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.
+
+- Bug #1733488: Fix compilation of bufferobject.c on AIX.
+
+- Bug #1722485: remove docstrings again when running with -OO.
+
+- Add new attribute names for function objects.  All the func_* become
+  __*__ attributes.  (Some already existed, e.g., __doc__ and __name__.)
+
+- Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
+  deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.
+
+- Patch #1686487: you can now pass any mapping after '**' in function
+  calls.
+
+- except clauses may now be spelled either "except E, target:" or
+  "except E as target:". This is to provide forwards compatibility with
+  Python 3.0.
+
+- Deprecate BaseException.message as per PEP 352.
+
+- Bug #1303614: don't expose object's __dict__ when the dict is
+  inherited from a builtin base.
+
+- When __slots__ are set to a unicode string, make it work the same as
+  setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.
+
+- Request #1191699:  Slices can now be pickled.
+
+- Request #1193128:  str.translate() now allows a None argument for
+  translations that only remove characters without re-mapping the
+  remaining characters.
+
+- Patch #1682205: a TypeError while unpacking an iterable is no longer
+  masked by a generic one with the message "unpack non-sequence".
+
+- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
+
+- Bug #1683368: The object.__init__() and object.__new__() methods are
+  now stricter in rejecting excess arguments.  The only time when
+  either allows excess arguments is when it is not overridden and the
+  other one is.  For backwards compatibility, when both are
+  overridden, it is a deprecation warning (for now; maybe a Py3k
+  warning later).  Also, type.__init__() insists on the same signature
+  as supported by type.__new__().
+
+- Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an object
+  to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back to the
+  __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath module now
+  can operate on objects that define a __complex__() method.
+
+- Patch #1623563: allow __class__ assignment for classes with __slots__.
+  The old and the new class are still required to have the same slot names.
+
+- Patch #1642547: Fix an error/crash when encountering syntax errors in
+  complex if statements.
+
+- Patch #1462488: Python no longer segfaults when ``object.__reduce_ex__()``
+  is called with an object that is faking its type.
+
+- Patch #1680015: Don't modify __slots__ tuple if it contains an unicode
+  name.
+
+- Patch #1444529: the builtin compile() now accepts keyword arguments.
+
+- Bug #1678647: write a newline after printing an exception in any
+  case, even when converting the value to a string failed.
+
+- The dir() function has been extended to call the __dir__() method on
+  its argument, if it exists. If not, it will work like before. This allows
+  customizing the output of dir() in the presence of a __getattr__().
+
+- Patch #922167: Python no longer segfaults when faced with infinitely
+  self-recursive reload() calls (as reported by bug #742342).
+
+- Patch #1675981: remove unreachable code from ``type.__new__()`` method.
+
+- Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow parthensized
+  forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of raising a
+  ValueError.
+
+- Patch #703779: unset __file__ in __main__ after running a file. This
+  makes the filenames the warning module prints much more sensible when
+  a PYTHONSTARTUP file is used.
+
+- Variant of patch #697613: don't exit the interpreter on a SystemExit
+  exception if the -i command line option or PYTHONINSPECT environment
+  variable is given, but break into the interactive interpreter just like
+  on other exceptions or normal program exit.
+
+- Patch #1638879: don't accept strings with embedded NUL bytes in long().
+
+- Bug #1674503: close the file opened by execfile() in an error condition.
+
+- Patch #1674228: when assigning a slice (old-style), check for the
+  sq_ass_slice instead of the sq_slice slot.
+
+- When printing an unraisable error, don't print exceptions. before the name.
+  This duplicates the behavior whening normally printing exceptions.
+
+- Bug #1653736: Properly discard third argument to slot_nb_inplace_power.
+
+- PEP 352: Raising a string exception now triggers a TypeError.  Attempting to
+  catch a string exception raises DeprecationWarning.
+
+- Bug #1377858: Fix the segfaulting of the interpreter when an object created
+  a weakref on itself during a __del__ call for new-style classes (classic
+  classes still have the bug).
+
+- Bug #1579370: Make PyTraceBack_Here use the current thread, not the
+  frame's thread state.
+
+- patch #1630975: Fix crash when replacing sys.stdout in sitecustomize.py
+
+- Bug #1637022: Prefix AST symbols with _Py_.
+
+- Prevent seg fault on shutdown which could occur if an object
+  raised a warning.
+
+- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main,
+  to avoid relying on atexit.
+
+- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big number
+
+- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on strings,
+  tuples and lists.
+
+- Bug #1067760: Deprecate passing floats to file.seek.
+
+- Bug #1591996: Correctly forward exception in instance_contains().
+
+- Bug #1588287: fix invalid assertion for `1,2` in debug builds.
+
+- Bug #1576657: when setting a KeyError for a tuple key, make sure that
+  the tuple isn't used as the "exception arguments tuple".
+
+- Bug #1565514, SystemError not raised on too many nested blocks.
+
+- Bug #1576174: WindowsError now displays the windows error code
+  again, no longer the posix error code.
+
+- Patch #1549049: Support long values in structmember, issue warnings
+  if the assigned value for structmember fields gets truncated.
+
+- Update the peephole optimizer to remove more dead code (jumps after returns)
+  and inline unconditional jumps to returns.
+
+- Bug #1545497: when given an explicit base, int() did ignore NULs
+  embedded in the string to convert.
+
+- Bug #1569998: break inside a try statement (outside a loop) is now
+  recognized and rejected.
+
+- list.pop(x) accepts any object x following the __index__ protocol.
+
+- Fix some leftovers from the conversion from int to Py_ssize_t
+  (relevant to strings and sequences of more than 2**31 items).
+
+- A number of places, including integer negation and absolute value,
+  were fixed to not rely on undefined behaviour of the C compiler
+  anymore.
+
+- Bug #1566800: make sure that EnvironmentError can be called with any
+  number of arguments, as was the case in Python 2.4.
+
+- Patch #1567691: super() and new.instancemethod() now don't accept
+  keyword arguments any more (previously they accepted them, but didn't
+  use them).
+
+- Fix a bug in the parser's future statement handling that led to "with"
+  not being recognized as a keyword after, e.g., this statement:
+  from __future__ import division, with_statement
+
+- Bug #1557232: fix seg fault with def f((((x)))) and def f(((x),)).
+
+- Fix %zd string formatting on Mac OS X so it prints negative numbers.
+
+- Allow exception instances to be directly sliced again.
+
+- Bug #1551432: Exceptions do not define an explicit __unicode__ method.  This
+  allows calling unicode() on exceptions classes directly to succeed.
+
+- Make _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() static, it was not used anywhere
+  outside of pystate.c and should not be necessary.
+
+- Bug #1542051: Exceptions now correctly call PyObject_GC_UnTrack.
+  Also make sure that every exception class has __module__ set to
+  'exceptions'.
+
+- Bug #1550983: emit better error messages for erroneous relative
+  imports (if not in package and if beyond toplevel package).
+
+- Overflow checking code in integer division ran afoul of new gcc
+  optimizations.  Changed to be more standard-conforming.
+
+- Patch #1542451: disallow continue anywhere under a finally.
+
+- Patch #1546288: fix seg fault in dict_equal due to ref counting bug.
+
+- The return tuple from str.rpartition(sep) is (tail, sep, head) where
+  head is the original string if sep was not found.
+
+- Bug #1520864: unpacking singleton tuples in list comprehensions and
+  generator expressions (x for x, in ... ) works again.  Fixing this problem
+  required changing the .pyc magic number.  This means that .pyc files
+  generated before 2.5c2 will be regenerated.
+
+- with and as are now keywords.
+
+- Bug #1664966: Fix crash in exec if Unicode filename can't be decoded.
+
+- Issue #1537: Changed GeneratorExit's base class from Exception to BaseException.
+
+Library
+-------
+
+- Patch #467924: add ZipFile.extract() and ZipFile.extractall() in the
+  zipfile module.
+
+- Issue #1646: Make socket support the TIPC protocol.
+
+- Bug #1742: return os.curdir from os.path.relpath() if both arguments are
+  equal instead of raising an exception.
+
+- Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
+
+- Patch #1698: allow '@' in username parsed by urlparse.py.
+
+- Issue #1735: TarFile.extractall() now correctly sets directory permissions
+  and times.
+
+- Bug #1713: posixpath.ismount() claims symlink to a mountpoint is a mountpoint.
+
+- Bug #1687: Fxed plistlib.py restricts <integer> to Python int when writing
+
+- Issue #1700: Regular expression inline flags incorrectly handle certain
+  unicode characters.
+
+- Issue #1689: PEP 3141, numeric abstract base classes.
+
+- Tk issue #1851526: Return results from Python callbacks to Tcl as
+  Tcl objects.
+
+- Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
+
+- Issue #1727780: Support loading pickles of random.Random objects created
+  on 32-bit systems on 64-bit systems, and vice versa. As a consequence
+  of the change, Random pickles created by Python 2.6 cannot be loaded
+  in Python 2.5.
+
+- Issue #1455: The distutils package now supports VS 2005 and VS 2008 for
+  both the msvccompiler and cygwincompiler.
+
+- Issue #1531: tarfile.py: Read fileobj from the current offset, do not
+  seek to the start.
+
+- Issue #1534: Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information about the
+  internal floating point type to the sys module.
+
+- Issue 1429818: patch for trace and doctest modules so they play nicely
+  together.
+
+- doctest made a bad assumption that a package's __loader__.get_data()
+  method used universal newlines.
+
+- Issue #1705170: contextlib.contextmanager was still swallowing
+  StopIteration in some cases. This should no longer happen.
+
+- Issue #1292: On alpha, arm, ppc, and s390 linux systems the
+  --with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes".
+
+- IN module for FreeBSD 8 is added and preexisting FreeBSD 6 and 7
+  files are updated.
+
+- Issues #1181, #1287: unsetenv() is now called when the os.environ.pop()
+  and os.environ.clear() methods are used.
+
+- ctypes will now work correctly on 32-bit systems when Python is
+  configured with --with-system-ffi.
+
+- Patch #1203: ctypes now does work on OS X when Python is built with
+  --disable-toolbox-glue.
+
+- collections.deque() now supports a "maxlen" argument.
+
+- itertools.count() is no longer bounded to LONG_MAX.  Formerly, it raised
+  an OverflowError.  Now, automatically shifts from ints to longs.
+
+- Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
+
+- Decimal is fully updated to the latest Decimal Specification (v1.66).
+
+- Bug #1153: repr.repr() now doesn't require set and dictionary items
+  to be orderable to properly represent them.
+
+- A 'c_longdouble' type was added to the ctypes module.
+
+- Bug #1709599: Run test_1565150 only if the file system is NTFS.
+
+- When encountering a password-protected robots.txt file the RobotFileParser
+  no longer prompts interactively for a username and password (bug 813986).
+
+- TarFile.__init__() no longer fails if no name argument is passed and
+  the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).
+
+- The functools module now provides 'reduce', for forward compatibility
+  with Python 3000.
+
+- Server-side SSL support and cert verification added, by Bill Janssen.
+
+- socket.ssl deprecated; use new ssl module instead.
+
+- uuid creation is now threadsafe.
+
+- EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul
+  syllables.
+
+- GB18030 codec now can encode additional two-byte characters that
+  are missing in GBK.
+
+- Add new codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE.
+
+- Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
+  represent the result in a single character.
+
+- Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
+
+- Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
+
+- Bug #1701409: Fix a segfault in printing ctypes.c_char_p and
+  ctypes.c_wchar_p when they point to an invalid location.  As a
+  sideeffect the representation of these instances has changed.
+
+- tarfile.py: Added "exclude" keyword argument to TarFile.add().
+
+- Bug #1734723: Fix repr.Repr() so it doesn't ignore the maxtuple attribute.
+
+- The urlopen function of urllib2 now has an optional timeout parameter (note 
+  that it actually works with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS connections).
+
+- In ftplib, the FTP.ntransfercmd method, when in passive mode, now uses
+  the socket.create_connection function, using the timeout specified at
+  connection time.
+
+- Bug #1728403: Fix a bug that CJKCodecs StreamReader hangs when it
+  reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint argument
+  for .read() is specified.
+
+- Bug #1730389: Change time.strptime() to use ``\s+`` instead of ``\s*`` when
+  matching spaces in the specified format argument.
+
+- SF 1668596/1720897: distutils now copies data files
+  even if package_dir is empty.
+
+- sha now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
+
+- md5 now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
+
+- Issue1385: The hmac module now computes the correct hmac when using hashes
+  with a block size other than 64 bytes (such as sha384 and sha512).
+
+- mimify now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
+
+- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
+
+- tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
+  officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.
+
+- urllib.ftpwrapper class now accepts an optional timeout.
+
+- shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
+
+- The posixfile module now raises a DeprecationWarning.
+
+- Remove the gopherlib module.  This also leads to the removal of gopher
+  support in urllib/urllib2.
+
+- Fix bug in marshal where bad data would cause a segfault due to
+  lack of an infinite recursion check.
+
+- Removed plat-freebsd2 and plat-freebsd3 directories (and IN.py in
+  the directories).
+
+- HTML-escape the plain traceback in cgitb's HTML output, to prevent
+  the traceback inadvertently or maliciously closing the comment and
+  injecting HTML into the error page.
+
+- The popen2 module and os.popen* are deprecated.  Use the subprocess module.
+
+- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with SMTP
+  servers which require authentication.
+
+- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
+
+- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
+
+- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
+  log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
+  only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
+
+- Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
+  (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
+  ".cpp" too.
+
+- As specified in RFC 2616, an HTTP response like 2xx indicates that
+  the client's request was successfully received, understood, and accepted.
+  Now in these cases no error is raised in urllib (issue #1177) and urllib2.
+
+- Bug #1290505: time.strptime's internal cache of locale information is now
+  properly recreated when the locale is changed.
+
+- Patch #1685563: remove (don't add) duplicate paths in distutils.MSVCCompiler.
+
+- Added a timeout parameter to the constructor of other protocols
+  (telnetlib, ftplib, smtplib and poplib). This is second part of the
+  work started with create_connection() and timeout in httplib, and
+  closes patch #723312.
+
+- Patch #1676823: Added create_connection() to socket.py, which may be
+  called with a timeout, and use it from httplib (whose HTTPConnection
+  and HTTPSConnection now accept an optional timeout).
+
+- Bug #978833: Revert r50844, as it broke _socketobject.dup.
+
+- Bug #1675967: re patterns pickled with Python 2.4 and earlier can
+  now be unpickled with Python 2.5 and newer.
+
+- Patch #1630118: add a SpooledTemporaryFile class to tempfile.py.
+
+- Patch #1273829: os.walk() now has a "followlinks" parameter. If set to
+  True (which is not the default), it visits symlinks pointing to
+  directories.
+
+- Bug #1681228: the webbrowser module now correctly uses the default
+  GNOME or KDE browser, depending on whether there is a session of one
+  of those present. Also, it tries the Windows default browser before
+  trying Mozilla variants.
+
+- Patch #1339796: add a relpath() function to os.path.
+
+- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
+  initialization failed.
+
+- Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
+  AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response didn't
+  contain a valid HTTP status line.
+
+- Patch #957650: "%var%" environment variable references are now properly
+  expanded in ntpath.expandvars(), also "~user" home directory references
+  are recognized and handled on Windows.
+
+- Patch #1429539: pdb now correctly initializes the __main__ module for
+  the debugged script, which means that imports from __main__ work
+  correctly now.
+
+- The nonobvious commands.getstatus() function is now deprecated.
+
+- Patch #1393667: pdb now has a "run" command which restarts the debugged
+  Python program, optionally with different arguments.
+
+- Patch #1649190: Adding support for _Bool to ctypes as c_bool.
+
+- Patch #1530482: add pydoc.render_doc() which returns the documentation
+  for a thing instead of paging it to stdout, which pydoc.doc() does.
+
+- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition to
+  strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
+  convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its methods.
+
+- Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete" parameter
+  which can be set to False to prevent the default delete-on-close
+  behavior.
+
+- Patch #1581073: add a flag to textwrap that prevents the dropping of
+  whitespace while wrapping.
+
+- Patch #1603688: ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser now checks values that
+  are set for invalid interpolation sequences that would lead to errors
+  on reading back those values.
+
+- Added support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format to tarfile.py. Extended
+  and cleaned up the test suite. Added a new testtar.tar.
+
+- Patch #1449244: Support Unicode strings in
+  email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
+
+- Patch #1542681: add entries for "with", "as" and "CONTEXTMANAGERS" to
+  pydoc's help keywords.
+
+- Patch #1555098: use str.join() instead of repeated string
+  concatenation in robotparser.
+
+- Patch #1635454: the csv.DictWriter class now includes the offending
+  field names in its exception message if you try to write a record with
+  a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.
+
+- Patch #1668100: urllib2 now correctly raises URLError instead of
+  OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.
+
+- Patch #1677862: Require a space or tab after import in .pth files.
+
+- Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they trap
+  the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint number.
+
+- Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to server_bind()
+  and server_activate() in the constructors for TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer
+  and DocXMLRPCServer.
+
+- Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always
+  be equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by
+  patch #1545011.
+
+- Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
+  Python would crash instead of raising an error.
+
+- Bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
+  returned string up to the first NUL character.
+
+- Patch #957003: Implement smtplib.LMTP.
+
+- Patch #1481079: add support for HTTP_REFERER to CGIHTTPServer.
+
+- Patch #1675424: Added tests for uncovered code in the zipfile module. 
+  The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent names now has 
+  a descriptive message.
+
+- Bug #1115886: os.path.splitext('.cshrc') gives now ('.cshrc', '').
+
+- unittest now verifies more of its assumptions. In particular, TestCase
+  and TestSuite subclasses (not instances) are no longer accepted in
+  TestSuite.addTest(). This should cause no incompatibility since it
+  never made sense with ordinary subclasses -- the failure just occurred
+  later, with a more cumbersome exception.
+
+- Patch #787789: allow to pass custom TestRunner instances to unittest's
+  main() function.
+
+- Patches #1550273, #1550272: fix a few bugs in unittest and add a
+  comprehensive test suite for the module.
+
+- Patch #1001604: glob.glob() now returns unicode filenames if it was
+  given a unicode argument and os.listdir() returns unicode filenames.
+
+- Patch #1673619: setup.py identifies extension modules it doesn't know how
+  to build and those it knows how to build but that fail to build.
+
+- Patch #912410: Replace HTML entity references for attribute values
+  in HTMLParser.
+
+- Patch #1663234: you can now run doctest on test files and modules
+  using "python -m doctest [-v] filename ...".
+
+- Patch #1121142: Implement ZipFile.open.
+
+- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
+
+- Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
+
+- Added collections.namedtuple() for assigning field names to tuples.
+
+- Added itertools.izip_longest().
+
+- Have the encoding package's search function dynamically import using absolute
+  import semantics.
+
+- Patch #1647484: Renamed GzipFile's filename attribute to name.
+
+- Patch #1517891: Mode 'a' for ZipFile now creates the file if it
+  doesn't exist.
+
+- Patch #698833: Support file decryption in zipfile.
+
+- Patch #685268: Consider a package's __path__ in imputil.
+
+- Patch 1463026: Support default namespace in XMLGenerator.
+
+- Patch 1571379: Make trace's --ignore-dir facility work in the face of
+  relative directory names.
+
+- Bug #1600860: Search for shared python library in LIBDIR,
+  not lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
+
+- Patch #1652681: tarfile.py: create nonexistent files in append mode and
+  allow appending to empty files.
+
+- Bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes if GetStdHandle fails in
+  subprocess.
+
+- Patch #1634778: add missing encoding aliases for iso8859_15 and
+  iso8859_16.
+
+- Patch #1638243: the compiler package is now able to correctly compile
+  a with statement; previously, executing code containing a with statement
+  compiled by the compiler package crashed the interpreter.
+
+- Bug #1643943: Fix time.strptime's support for the %U directive.
+
+- Patch #1507247: tarfile.py: use current umask for intermediate
+  directories.
+
+- Patch #1627441: close sockets properly in urllib2.
+
+- Bug #494589: make ntpath.expandvars behave according to its docstring.
+
+- Changed platform module API python_version_tuple() to actually
+  return a tuple (it used to return a list).
+
+- Added new platform module APIs python_branch(), python_revision(),
+  python_implementation() and linux_distribution().
+
+- Added support for IronPython and Jython to the platform module.
+
+- The sets module has been deprecated.  Use the built-in set/frozenset types
+  instead.
+
+- Bug #1610795: make ctypes.util.find_library work on BSD systems.
+
+- Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the
+  definitions of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types.  Make
+  parameterless foreign function calls work.
+
+- The version number of the ctypes package changed to "1.1.0".
+
+- Bug #1627575: logging: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can
+  be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the
+  encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
+
+- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
+  SMTPHandler.emit. Now, only ImportError is trapped.
+
+- Bug #411881: logging.handlers: bare except clause removed from
+  SocketHandler.createSocket. Now, only socket.error is trapped.
+
+- Bug #411881: logging: bare except clause removed from LogRecord.__init__.
+  Now, only ValueError, TypeError and AttributeError are trapped.
+
+- Patch #1504073: Fix tarfile.open() for mode "r" with a fileobj argument.
+
+- Patch #1182394 from Shane Holloway: speed up HMAC.hexdigest.
+
+- Patch #1262036: Prevent TarFiles from being added to themselves under
+  certain conditions.
+
+- Patch #1230446: tarfile.py: fix ExFileObject so that read() and tell()
+  work correctly together with readline().
+
+- Patch #1484695: The tarfile module now raises a HeaderError exception
+  if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.
+
+- Bug #1503765: Fix a problem in logging.config with spaces in comma-
+  separated lists read from logging config files.
+
+- Patch #1604907: Fix problems in logging.handlers caused at logging shutdown
+  when syslog handlers fail to initialize because of syslogd problems.
+
+- Patch #1608267: fix a race condition in os.makedirs() if the directory
+  to be created is already there.
+
+- Patch #1610437: fix a tarfile bug with long filename headers.
+
+- Patch #1371075: Make ConfigParser accept optional dict type
+  for ordering, sorting, etc.
+
+- Bug #1563807: _ctypes built on AIX fails with ld ffi error.
+
+- Bug #1598620: A ctypes Structure cannot contain itself.
+
+- Patch #1070046: Marshal new-style objects like InstanceType
+  in xmlrpclib.
+
+- cStringIO.truncate(-1) now raises an IOError, like StringIO and
+  regular files.
+
+- Patch #1472877: Fix Tix subwidget name resolution.
+
+- Patch #1594554: Always close a tkSimpleDialog on ok(), even
+  if an exception occurs.
+
+- Patch #1538878: Don't make tkSimpleDialog dialogs transient if
+  the parent window is withdrawn.
+
+- Bug #1597824: return the registered function from atexit.register()
+  to facilitate usage as a decorator.
+
+- Patch #1360200: Use unmangled_version RPM spec field to deal with
+  file name mangling.
+
+- Patch #1359217: Process 2xx response in an ftplib transfer
+  that precedes an 1xx response.
+
+- Patch #1355023: support whence argument for GzipFile.seek.
+
+- Patch #1065257: Support passing open files as body in
+  HTTPConnection.request().
+
+- Bug #1569790: mailbox.py: Maildir.get_folder() and MH.get_folder()
+  weren't passing the message factory on to newly created Maildir/MH
+  objects.
+
+- Patch #1514543: mailbox.py: In the Maildir class, report errors if there's
+  a filename clash instead of possibly losing a message.  (Patch by David
+  Watson.)
+
+- Patch #1514544: Try to ensure that messages/indexes have been physically
+  written to disk after calling .flush() or .close(). (Patch by David
+  Watson.)
+
+- Patch #1592250: Add elidge argument to Tkinter.Text.search.
+
+- Patch #838546: Make terminal become controlling in pty.fork()
+
+- Patch #1351744: Add askyesnocancel helper for tkMessageBox.
+
+- Patch #1060577: Extract list of RPM files from spec file in
+  bdist_rpm
+
+- Bug #1586613: fix zlib and bz2 codecs' incremental en/decoders.
+
+- Patch #1583880: fix tarfile's problems with long names and posix/
+  GNU modes.
+
+- Bug #1586448: the compiler module now emits the same bytecode for
+  list comprehensions as the builtin compiler, using the LIST_APPEND
+  opcode.
+
+- Fix codecs.EncodedFile which did not use file_encoding in 2.5.0, and
+  fix all codecs file wrappers to work correctly with the "with"
+  statement (bug #1586513).
+
+- Lib/modulefinder.py now handles absolute and relative imports
+  correctly.
+
+- Patch #1567274: Support SMTP over TLS.
+
+- Patch #1560695: Add .note.GNU-stack to ctypes' sysv.S so that
+  ctypes isn't considered as requiring executable stacks.
+
+- ctypes callback functions only support 'fundamental' data types as
+  result type.  Raise an error when something else is used.  This is a
+  partial fix for Bug #1574584.
+
+- Fix turtle so that time.sleep is imported for the entire library.  Allows
+  the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only when the
+  module is run as a script.
+
+- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent
+  is started with that option.
+
+- Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
+
+- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
+
+- Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name given
+  to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
+
+- Bug #1560617: in pyclbr, return full module name not only for classes,
+  but also for functions.
+
+- Bug #1457823: cgi.(Sv)FormContentDict's constructor now takes
+  keep_blank_values and strict_parsing keyword arguments.
+
+- Bug #1566602: correct failure of posixpath unittest when $HOME ends
+  with a slash.
+
+- Bug #1565661: in webbrowser, split() the command for the default
+  GNOME browser in case it is a command with args.
+
+- Made the error message for time.strptime when the data data and format do
+  match be more clear.
+
+- Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
+  being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
+  In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.
+
+- Make webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser usable in Windows (it wasn't because
+  the close_fds arg to subprocess.Popen is not supported).
+
+- Reverted patch #1504333 to sgmllib because it introduced an infinite loop.
+
+- Patch #1553314: Fix the inspect.py slowdown that was hurting IPython & SAGE
+  by adding smarter caching in inspect.getmodule()
+
+- Fix missing import of the types module in logging.config.
+
+- Patch #1550886: Fix decimal module context management implementation
+  to match the localcontext() example from PEP 343.
+
+- Bug #1545341: The 'classifier' keyword argument to the Distutils setup()
+  function now accepts tuples as well as lists.
+
+- Bug #1541863: uuid.uuid1 failed to generate unique identifiers
+  on systems with low clock resolution.
+
+- Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
+
+- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug #299092).
+
+- Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when the
+  first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was longer than 3 bytes.
+
+- The implementation of UnicodeError objects has been simplified (start and end
+  attributes are now stored directly as Py_ssize_t members).
+
+>>>>>>> .merge-right.r59840
 Extension Modules
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