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  r69466 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-02-09 12:39:41 -0600 (Mon, 09 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Issue 5171: itertools.product docstring missing 'repeat' argument
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  r69480 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-02-09 19:24:05 -0600 (Mon, 09 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  Issue 1818: collections.namedtuple() to support automatic renaming of invalid fieldnames.
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 - Issue #5122: Synchronize tk load failure check to prevent a potential
   deadlock.
 
+- Issue #1818: collections.namedtuple() now supports a keyword argument
+  'rename' which lets invalid fieldnames be automatically converted to
+  positional names in the form, _1, _2, ...
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 - Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
 
 - Issue #4512 (part 2): Promote ``ZipImporter._get_filename()`` to be a