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r83352 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 20:11:07 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line
#9440: Remove borderline test case that fails based on unpredictable conditions such as compiler flags.
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r83355 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 21:17:11 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line
Fix bad merge: test_support -> support.
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r83356 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 21:29:15 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line
Remove trailing whitespace.
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r83357 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 21:59:55 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line
#5778: document that sys.version can contain a newline.
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r83358 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 22:05:31 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line
#9442: do not document a specific format for sys.version; rather refer to version_info and the platform module.
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r83362 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 23:12:15 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line
#8910: add a file explaining why Lib/test/data is there.
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r83366 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 23:26:40 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line
There always is a False and True now.
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r83368 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 23:40:15 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line
#7909: the prefixes \\.\ and \\?\ indicate special Windows paths, do not try to manipulate them. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247%28VS.85%29.aspx for details.
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r83369 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 23:41:42 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line
Fix "Berkeley" name.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 80e1ced..6752203 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@
Library
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+- Issue #7909: Do not touch paths with the special prefixes ``\\.\``
+ or ``\\?\`` in ntpath.normpath().
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- Issue #5146: Handle UID THREAD command correctly in imaplib.
- Issue #5147: Fix the header generated for cookie files written by
@@ -1551,8 +1554,8 @@
an error. The _PY_STRUCT_FLOAT_COERCE constant has been removed.
The version number has been bumped to 0.3.
-- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkley-DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
- using Berkley-DB.
+- Issue #5359: Readd the Berkeley DB detection code to allow _dbm be built
+ using Berkeley DB.
Tests
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