Blocked revisions 67584,67587,67601,67614,67628 via svnmerge

Blocked revisions 67584,67587,67601,67614,67628 via svnmerge

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  r67584 | fred.drake | 2008-12-05 16:52:25 +0100 (Fri, 05 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  bump version number
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  r67587 | fred.drake | 2008-12-05 17:14:18 +0100 (Fri, 05 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  be more specific, and parallel to the py3k branch
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  r67601 | mark.dickinson | 2008-12-05 22:55:28 +0100 (Fri, 05 Dec 2008) | 3 lines

  Issue #4445: save 3 bytes (on average, on a typical machine) per
  string allocation.
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  r67614 | skip.montanaro | 2008-12-06 18:43:30 +0100 (Sat, 06 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  issue 4483 - dbm build failures on systems with gdbm_compat lib.
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  r67628 | skip.montanaro | 2008-12-07 03:16:00 +0100 (Sun, 07 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  muffed the default case
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