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  r75264 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-10-05 17:30:22 -0500 (Mon, 05 Oct 2009) | 1 line

  Add various items
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  r75268 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-10-05 17:45:39 -0500 (Mon, 05 Oct 2009) | 1 line

  Remove two notes
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  r75293 | kristjan.jonsson | 2009-10-09 09:32:19 -0500 (Fri, 09 Oct 2009) | 2 lines

  http://bugs.python.org/issue7029
  a non-default timer wasn't actually used by the individual Tests.
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  r75318 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-10-10 16:15:58 -0500 (Sat, 10 Oct 2009) | 1 line

  remove script which uses long gone module
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  r75391 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-10-13 10:49:33 -0500 (Tue, 13 Oct 2009) | 1 line

  Link to PEP
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  r75392 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-10-13 11:11:49 -0500 (Tue, 13 Oct 2009) | 1 line

  Various link, textual, and markup fixes
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  r75436 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-10-15 10:39:15 -0500 (Thu, 15 Oct 2009) | 1 line

  don't need to mess up sys.path
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  r75478 | senthil.kumaran | 2009-10-17 20:58:45 -0500 (Sat, 17 Oct 2009) | 3 lines

  Fix a typo.
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  r75971 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-10-30 22:56:15 -0500 (Fri, 30 Oct 2009) | 1 line

  add some checks for evaluation order with parenthesis #7210
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  r76003 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-10-31 19:30:13 -0500 (Sat, 31 Oct 2009) | 6 lines

  Hopefully fix the buildbot problems on test_mailbox, by computing
  the maildir toc cache refresh date before actually refreshing the cache.

  (see #6896)
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  r76058 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-11-02 10:14:19 -0600 (Mon, 02 Nov 2009) | 1 line

  grant list.index() a more informative error message #7252
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  r76140 | nick.coghlan | 2009-11-07 02:13:55 -0600 (Sat, 07 Nov 2009) | 1 line

  Add test for runpy.run_module package execution and use something other than logging as the example of a non-executable package
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  r76141 | nick.coghlan | 2009-11-07 02:15:01 -0600 (Sat, 07 Nov 2009) | 1 line

  Some minor cleanups to private runpy code and docstrings
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  r76231 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-11-12 17:42:23 -0600 (Thu, 12 Nov 2009) | 1 line

  this main is much more useful
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  r76380 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-11-18 14:20:46 -0600 (Wed, 18 Nov 2009) | 3 lines

  Mention Giampolo R's new FTP TLS support in the what's new file
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  r76428 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-11-19 20:15:50 -0600 (Thu, 19 Nov 2009) | 1 line

  turn goto into do while loop
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  r76429 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-11-19 20:56:43 -0600 (Thu, 19 Nov 2009) | 2 lines

  avoid doing an uneeded import in a function
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diff --git a/Objects/listobject.c b/Objects/listobject.c
index 09fba48..f54b97d 100644
--- a/Objects/listobject.c
+++ b/Objects/listobject.c
@@ -2098,7 +2098,8 @@
 listindex(PyListObject *self, PyObject *args)
 {
 	Py_ssize_t i, start=0, stop=Py_SIZE(self);
-	PyObject *v;
+	PyObject *v, *format_tuple, *err_string;
+	static PyObject *err_format = NULL;
 
 	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "O|O&O&:index", &v,
 	                            _PyEval_SliceIndex, &start,
@@ -2121,7 +2122,20 @@
 		else if (cmp < 0)
 			return NULL;
 	}
-	PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "list.index(x): x not in list");
+	if (err_format == NULL) {
+		err_format = PyUnicode_FromString("%r is not in list");
+		if (err_format == NULL)
+			return NULL;
+	}
+	format_tuple = PyTuple_Pack(1, v);
+	if (format_tuple == NULL)
+		return NULL;
+	err_string = PyUnicode_Format(err_format, format_tuple);
+	Py_DECREF(format_tuple);
+	if (err_string == NULL)
+		return NULL;
+	PyErr_SetObject(PyExc_ValueError, err_string);
+	Py_DECREF(err_string);
 	return NULL;
 }