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  r61118 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-28 23:30:42 +0100 (Thu, 28 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Have itertools.chain() consume its inputs lazily instead of building a tuple of iterators at the outset.
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  r61119 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-28 23:46:41 +0100 (Thu, 28 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Add alternate constructor for itertools.chain().
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  r61123 | mark.dickinson | 2008-02-29 03:16:37 +0100 (Fri, 29 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Add __format__ method to Decimal, to support PEP 3101
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  r61124 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-29 03:21:48 +0100 (Fri, 29 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Handle the repeat keyword argument for itertools.product().
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  r61125 | mark.dickinson | 2008-02-29 04:29:17 +0100 (Fri, 29 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix docstring typo.
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