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  r77461 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-01-13 08:55:48 +0100 (mer., 13 janv. 2010) | 5 lines

  Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
  methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
  implementation based on stringlib's fast search.  Patch by Florent Xicluna.
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
+  methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
+  implementation based on stringlib's fast search.  Patch by Florent Xicluna.
+
 - Issue #7632: Fix a crash in dtoa.c that occurred in debug builds
   when parsing certain long numeric strings corresponding to subnormal
   values.  Also fix a number of bugs in dtoa.c that could lead to