Merged revisions 68840,68881,68943,68945 via svnmerge from

Merged revisions 68840,68881,68943,68945 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r68840 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-01-20 20:15:43 -0600 (Tue, 20 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Add some items
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  r68881 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-01-23 21:28:18 -0600 (Fri, 23 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Add various items
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  r68943 | tarek.ziade | 2009-01-25 16:09:10 -0600 (Sun, 25 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Issue #5052: removed backward compatibility information (out of date)
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  r68945 | tarek.ziade | 2009-01-25 16:11:04 -0600 (Sun, 25 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  added missing module docstring
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