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  r69998 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-26 13:04:40 -0600 (Thu, 26 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  the startship is rather outdated now
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  r69999 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-26 13:05:59 -0600 (Thu, 26 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  comma
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  r70002 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-02-26 16:34:30 -0600 (Thu, 26 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  The curses panel library is now supported
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  r70022 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-27 10:23:18 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  #5361: fix typo.
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  r70023 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-27 10:39:26 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  #5363: fix cmpfiles() docs. Another instance where a prose description is twice as long as the code.
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  r70025 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-27 10:52:55 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  #5344: fix punctuation.
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  r70026 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-27 10:59:03 -0600 (Fri, 27 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  #5365: add quick look conversion table for different time representations.
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  r70061 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2009-02-28 09:24:00 -0600 (Sat, 28 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  Binary flag is needed on windows.
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  r70086 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-01 21:35:12 -0600 (Sun, 01 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  fix a silly problem of caching gone wrong #5401
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  r70145 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-03 16:51:57 -0600 (Tue, 03 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  making the writing more formal
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  r70171 | facundo.batista | 2009-03-04 15:18:17 -0600 (Wed, 04 Mar 2009) | 3 lines

  Fixed a typo.
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  r70183 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-04 18:17:57 -0600 (Wed, 04 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  add example
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  r70188 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2009-03-05 03:34:14 -0600 (Thu, 05 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  Fixed memory leak on failure.
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  r70235 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-07 18:21:17 -0600 (Sat, 07 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  fix funky indentation
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  r70244 | martin.v.loewis | 2009-03-08 09:06:19 -0500 (Sun, 08 Mar 2009) | 2 lines

  Add Chris Withers.
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  r70275 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-09 11:35:48 -0500 (Mon, 09 Mar 2009) | 2 lines

  Add missing space.
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  r70281 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-09 15:38:56 -0500 (Mon, 09 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  gzip and bz2 are context managers
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Doc/howto/curses.rst

@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ quirks, and provide complete lists of all the functions, attributes, and
 Because the curses API is so large, some functions aren't supported in the
 Python interface, not because they're difficult to implement, but because no one
 has needed them yet.  Feel free to add them and then submit a patch.  Also, we
-don't yet have support for the menus or panels libraries associated with
+don't yet have support for the menu library associated with
 ncurses; feel free to add that.
 
 If you write an interesting little program, feel free to contribute it as

Doc/library/bz2.rst

@@ -58,6 +58,11 @@ Handling of compressed files is offered by the :class:`BZ2File` class.
    reading. Instances support iteration in the same way as normal :class:`file`
    instances.
 
+   :class:`BZ2File` supports the :keyword:`with` statement.
+
+   .. versionchanged:: 2.7
+      Support for the :keyword:`with` statement was added.
+
 
    .. method:: close()
 

Doc/library/filecmp.rst

@@ -31,17 +31,24 @@ The :mod:`filecmp` module defines the following functions:
 
 .. function:: cmpfiles(dir1, dir2, common[, shallow])
 
-   Returns three lists of file names: *match*, *mismatch*, *errors*.  *match*
-   contains the list of files match in both directories, *mismatch* includes the
-   names of those that don't, and *errros* lists the names of files which could not
-   be compared.  Files may be listed in *errors* because the user may lack
-   permission to read them or many other reasons, but always that the comparison
-   could not be done for some reason.
+   Compare the files in the two directories *dir1* and *dir2* whose names are
+   given by *common*.
 
-   The *common* parameter is a list of file names found in both directories. The
-   *shallow* parameter has the same meaning and default value as for
+   Returns three lists of file names: *match*, *mismatch*,
+   *errors*.  *match* contains the list of files that match, *mismatch* contains
+   the names of those that don't, and *errors* lists the names of files which
+   could not be compared.  Files are listed in *errors* if they don't exist in
+   one of the directories, the user lacks permission to read them or if the
+   comparison could not be done for some other reason.
+
+   The *shallow* parameter has the same meaning and default value as for
    :func:`filecmp.cmp`.
 
+   For example, ``cmpfiles('a', 'b', ['c', 'd/e'])`` will compare ``a/c`` with
+   ``b/c`` and ``a/d/e`` with ``b/d/e``.  ``'c'`` and ``'d/e'`` will each be in
+   one of the three returned lists.
+
+
 Example::
 
    >>> import filecmp

Doc/library/gzip.rst

@@ -67,6 +67,11 @@ The module defines the following items:
    writing as *fileobj*, and retrieve the resulting memory buffer using the
    :class:`StringIO` object's :meth:`getvalue` method.
 
+   :class:`GzipFile` supports the :keyword:`with` statement.
+
+   .. versionchanged:: 2.7
+      Support for the :keyword:`with` statement was added.
+
 
 .. function:: open(filename[, mode[, compresslevel]])
 

Doc/library/mmap.rst

@@ -93,10 +93,10 @@ To map anonymous memory, -1 should be passed as the fileno along with the length
       import mmap
 
       # write a simple example file
-      with open("hello.txt", "w") as f:
+      with open("hello.txt", "wb") as f:
           f.write("Hello Python!\n")
 
-      with open("hello.txt", "r+") as f:
+      with open("hello.txt", "r+b") as f:
           # memory-map the file, size 0 means whole file
           map = mmap.mmap(f.fileno(), 0)
           # read content via standard file methods

Doc/library/stdtypes.rst

@@ -1247,7 +1247,7 @@ The conversion types are:
 +------------+-----------------------------------------------------+-------+
 | ``'o'``    | Signed octal value.                                 | \(1)  |
 +------------+-----------------------------------------------------+-------+
-| ``'u'``    | Obselete type -- it is identical to ``'d'``.        | \(7)  |
+| ``'u'``    | Obsolete type -- it is identical to ``'d'``.        | \(7)  |
 +------------+-----------------------------------------------------+-------+
 | ``'x'``    | Signed hexadecimal (lowercase).                     | \(2)  |
 +------------+-----------------------------------------------------+-------+

Doc/library/struct.rst

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ The module defines the following exception and functions:
 
 .. function:: unpack_from(fmt, buffer[,offset=0])
 
-   Unpack the *buffer* according to tthe given format. The result is a tuple even
+   Unpack the *buffer* according to the given format. The result is a tuple even
    if it contains exactly one item. The *buffer* must contain at least the amount
    of data required by the format (``len(buffer[offset:])`` must be at least
    ``calcsize(fmt)``).

Doc/library/symtable.rst

@@ -164,6 +164,12 @@ Examining Symbol Tables
       If the name is used as the target of a function or class statement, this
       will be true.
 
+      For example::
+
+         >>> table = symtable.symtable("def some_func(): pass", "string", "exec")
+         >>> table.lookup("some_func").is_namespace()
+         True
+
       Note that a single name can be bound to multiple objects.  If the result
       is ``True``, the name may also be bound to other objects, like an int or
       list, that does not introduce a new namespace.

Doc/library/time.rst

@@ -114,6 +114,25 @@ An explanation of some terminology and conventions is in order.
   :class:`struct_time`, or having elements of the wrong type, a :exc:`TypeError`
   is raised.
 
+* Use the following functions to convert between time representations:
+
+  +-------------------------+-------------------------+-------------------------+
+  | From                    | To                      | Use                     |
+  +=========================+=========================+=========================+
+  | seconds since the epoch | :class:`struct_time` in | :func:`gmtime`          |
+  |                         | UTC                     |                         |
+  +-------------------------+-------------------------+-------------------------+
+  | seconds since the epoch | :class:`struct_time` in | :func:`localtime`       |
+  |                         | local time              |                         |
+  +-------------------------+-------------------------+-------------------------+
+  | :class:`struct_time` in | seconds since the epoch | :func:`calendar.timegm` |
+  | UTC                     |                         |                         |
+  +-------------------------+-------------------------+-------------------------+
+  | :class:`struct_time` in | seconds since the epoch | :func:`mktime`          |
+  | local time              |                         |                         |
+  +-------------------------+-------------------------+-------------------------+
+
+
 The module defines the following functions and data items:
 
 

Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst

@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ structure is::
 
 The expression is evaluated, and it should result in an object that supports the
 context management protocol (that is, has :meth:`__enter__` and :meth:`__exit__`
-methods.
+methods).
 
 The object's :meth:`__enter__` is called before *with-block* is executed and
 therefore can run set-up code. It also may return a value that is bound to the

Lib/mimetypes.py

@@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ def guess_type(url, strict=True):
     Optional `strict' argument when false adds a bunch of commonly found, but
     non-standard types.
     """
+    if not inited:
         init()
     return guess_type(url, strict)
 
@@ -254,6 +255,7 @@ def guess_all_extensions(type, strict=True):
     Optional `strict' argument when false adds a bunch of commonly found,
     but non-standard types.
     """
+    if not inited:
         init()
     return guess_all_extensions(type, strict)
 
@@ -269,6 +271,7 @@ def guess_extension(type, strict=True):
     Optional `strict' argument when false adds a bunch of commonly found,
     but non-standard types.
     """
+    if not inited:
         init()
     return guess_extension(type, strict)
 
@@ -284,6 +287,7 @@ def add_type(type, ext, strict=True):
     list of standard types, else to the list of non-standard
     types.
     """
+    if not inited:
         init()
     return add_type(type, ext, strict)
 

Misc/NEWS

@@ -220,6 +220,9 @@ Library
 
 - configparser now defaults to using an ordered dictionary.
 
+- Issue #5401: Fixed a performance problem in mimetypes when ``from mimetypes
+  import guess_extension`` was used.
+
 - Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
   with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)
 

Misc/developers.txt

@@ -17,7 +17,10 @@ the format to accommodate documentation needs as they arise.
 Permissions History
 -------------------
 
-- Tarek Ziadé as given SVN access on Decmeber 21 2008 by NCN,
+- Chris Withers was given SVN access on March 8 2009 by MvL,
+  after recommendation by GvR.
+
+- Tarek Ziadé was given SVN access on December 21 2008 by NCN,
   for maintenance of distutils.
 
 - Hirokazu Yamamoto was given SVN access on August 12 2008 by MvL,

Objects/bytearrayobject.c

@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ PyByteArray_Concat(PyObject *a, PyObject *b)
 
     size = va.len + vb.len;
     if (size < 0) {
-            return PyErr_NoMemory();
+            PyErr_NoMemory();
             goto done;
     }