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  r59923 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-11 19:04:55 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Speed-up and simplify code urlparse's result objects.
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  r59924 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-11 20:33:24 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Bug #1790: update link; remove outdated paragraph
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  r59925 | thomas.heller | 2008-01-11 20:34:06 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 5 lines

  Raise an error instead of crashing with a segfault when a NULL
  function pointer is called.

  Will backport to release25-maint.
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  r59927 | thomas.heller | 2008-01-11 21:29:19 +0100 (Fri, 11 Jan 2008) | 4 lines

  Fix a potential 'SystemError: NULL result without error'.
  NULL may be a valid return value from PyLong_AsVoidPtr.

  Will backport to release25-maint.
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  r59928 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-12 00:25:18 +0100 (Sat, 12 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Update the opcode docs for STORE_MAP and BUILD_MAP
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  r59929 | mark.dickinson | 2008-01-12 02:56:00 +0100 (Sat, 12 Jan 2008) | 4 lines

  Issue 1780: Allow leading and trailing whitespace in Decimal constructor,
  when constructing from a string. Disallow trailing newlines in
  Context.create_decimal.
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  r59930 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-12 11:53:29 +0100 (Sat, 12 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  Move OSError docs to exceptions doc, remove obsolete descriptions
  from os docs, rework posix docs.
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  r59931 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-12 14:47:57 +0100 (Sat, 12 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  Patch #1700288: Method cache optimization, by Armin Rigo, ported to
  2.6 by Kevin Jacobs.
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  r59932 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-12 17:11:09 +0100 (Sat, 12 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix editing glitch.
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