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  r74003 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-07-13 22:38:21 +0200 (Mo, 13 Jul 2009) | 15 lines

  Merged revisions 74000-74001 via svnmerge from
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    r74000 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-07-13 22:01:11 +0200 (lun., 13 juil. 2009) | 4 lines

    #1616979: Add the cp720 (Arabic DOS) encoding.
    Since there is no official mapping file from unicode.org,
    the codec file is generated on Windows with the new genwincodec.py script.
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    r74001 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-07-13 22:03:21 +0200 (lun., 13 juil. 2009) | 2 lines

    NEWS entry for r74000.
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  r74004 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-07-13 22:48:07 +0200 (Mo, 13 Jul 2009) | 2 lines

  Oops, really pass a bytes string to the ctypes function.
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  r74009 | brett.cannon | 2009-07-15 06:08:33 +0200 (Mi, 15 Jul 2009) | 4 lines

  Importlib was using custom code to discover all test modules in importlib.test.
  This has now been removed in favor of using unittest's test discovery code in
  TestLoader.discover().
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  r74012 | ezio.melotti | 2009-07-15 19:17:17 +0200 (Mi, 15 Jul 2009) | 9 lines

  Merged revisions 74011 via svnmerge from
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    r74011 | ezio.melotti | 2009-07-15 20:07:04 +0300 (Wed, 15 Jul 2009) | 1 line

    methods' names pep8ification
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  r74013 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2009-07-15 19:49:23 +0200 (Mi, 15 Jul 2009) | 4 lines

  Issue #2389: Implement a portable mechanism for pickling array objects.

  Reviewed by: Martin v. Löwis
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  r74015 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2009-07-15 20:31:06 +0200 (Mi, 15 Jul 2009) | 2 lines

  Fix omission in a comment.
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  r74017 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-07-15 21:21:18 +0200 (Mi, 15 Jul 2009) | 9 lines

  Merged revisions 74006 via svnmerge from
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    r74006 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-07-14 01:11:54 +0200 (mar., 14 juil. 2009) | 2 lines

    Document the newly added codec
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  r74018 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2009-07-15 22:53:55 +0200 (Mi, 15 Jul 2009) | 2 lines

  Don't check 64-bit test cases on 32-bit machine.
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  r74030 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2009-07-17 05:51:27 +0200 (Fr, 17 Jul 2009) | 7 lines

  Use the proper autoconf macro for checking byte order.

  The BYTEORDER_IS_BIG_ENDIAN macro is defined Objects/unicodeobject.c,
  thus the code was always emitting the little-endian machine format codes.

  This should fix the failure seen on the SPARC buildbot.
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