welcome to 2009, Python!
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 This is Python version 2.7 alpha 0
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-Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
+Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
 Python Software Foundation.
 All rights reserved.