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  r58892 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-11-06 15:32:56 -0800 (Tue, 06 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Add missing "return NULL" in overflow check in PyObject_Repr().
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  r58893 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-06 17:13:09 -0800 (Tue, 06 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Fix marshal's incorrect handling of subclasses of builtin types (backport candidate).
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  r58895 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-06 18:26:17 -0800 (Tue, 06 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Optimize dict.fromkeys() with dict inputs.  Useful for resetting bag/muliset counts for example.
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  r58896 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-06 18:45:46 -0800 (Tue, 06 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Add build option for faster loop execution.
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  r58900 | nick.coghlan | 2007-11-07 03:57:51 -0800 (Wed, 07 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Add missing NEWS entry
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  r58905 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-07 09:50:54 -0800 (Wed, 07 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Backported fix for bug #1392 from py3k branch r58903.
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  r58906 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-07 10:30:22 -0800 (Wed, 07 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Backport of Guido's review of my patch.
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  r58908 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-07 18:52:43 -0800 (Wed, 07 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Add set.isdisjoint()
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  r58915 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-08 10:47:51 -0800 (Thu, 08 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Reposition the decref (spotted by eagle-eye norwitz).
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  r58920 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-09 04:31:43 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix seealso link to sets docs. Do not merge to Py3k.
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  r58921 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-09 05:08:48 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix misleading example.
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  r58923 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-09 09:33:23 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 3 lines

  Correct a comment about testing methods - nowadays most
  tests don't run directly on import.
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  r58924 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-11-09 14:56:30 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Add Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
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  r58925 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-09 15:14:44 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Optimize common case for dict.fromkeys().
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  r58927 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-09 17:54:03 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Use a freelist to speed-up block allocation and deallocation in collections.deque().
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  r58929 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-11-10 14:12:24 -0800 (Sat, 10 Nov 2007) | 3 lines

  Issue 1416.  Add getter, setter, deleter methods to properties that can be
  used as decorators to create fully-populated properties.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_dict.py b/Lib/test/test_dict.py
index 89c127a..56ce722 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_dict.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_dict.py
@@ -236,6 +236,10 @@
 
         self.assertRaises(Exc, baddict2.fromkeys, [1])
 
+        # test fast path for dictionary inputs
+        d = dict(zip(range(6), range(6)))
+        self.assertEqual(dict.fromkeys(d, 0), dict(zip(range(6), [0]*6)))
+
     def test_copy(self):
         d = {1:1, 2:2, 3:3}
         self.assertEqual(d.copy(), {1:1, 2:2, 3:3})