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 The functools module
 ====================
 
-The :mod:`functools` module in Python 2.5 contains some higher-order functions.
+The :mod:`functools` module contains some higher-order functions.
 A **higher-order function** takes one or more functions as input and returns a
 new function.  The most useful tool in this module is the
 :func:`functools.partial` function.