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  r67950 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-27 18:00:44 +0100 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fix 2.x isms in distutils test
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  r67962 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 20:08:11 +0100 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4697: clarify that the functions are Unix-only.
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  r67968 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-28 00:12:09 +0100 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Remove confusing error message in bytes.translate.
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  r67969 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-28 00:33:20 +0100 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 5 lines

  Document bytes.translate().

  BTW, having str.maketrans() as a static method and
  string.maketrans() as a function that creates translation tables for bytes objects is not very consistent :)
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  r68027 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-29 21:52:09 +0100 (Mon, 29 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  hexdigest() doesn't return bytes #4771
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  r68075 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-30 19:05:46 +0100 (Tue, 30 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  use $(RUNSHARED) to run plat-mac/regen
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  r68091 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-31 04:43:28 +0100 (Wed, 31 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  #4788 qualify remove a bare except
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  r68093 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-31 05:10:35 +0100 (Wed, 31 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fix name usage
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