Merged revisions 60053-60078 via svnmerge from

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  r60054 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-18 20:12:56 +0100 (Fri, 18 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Silence Coverity false alerts with CIDs #172, #183, #184
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  r60057 | guido.van.rossum | 2008-01-18 21:56:30 +0100 (Fri, 18 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  Fix an edge case whereby the __del__() method of a classic class could
  create a new weakref to the object.
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  r60058 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-18 22:14:58 +0100 (Fri, 18 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Better variable name in an example.
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  r60063 | guido.van.rossum | 2008-01-19 00:05:40 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  This got fixed for classic classes in r60057,
  and backported to 2.5.2 in 60056.
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  r60068 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-01-19 10:56:06 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 4 lines

  Several tweaks: add construction from strings and .from_decimal(), change
  __init__ to __new__ to enforce immutability, and remove "rational." from repr
  and the parens from str.
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  r60069 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 11:11:27 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix markup.
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  r60070 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 11:16:09 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  Amend curses docs by info how to write non-ascii characters.
  Thanks to Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven.
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  r60071 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 11:18:07 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Indentation normalization.
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  r60073 | facundo.batista | 2008-01-19 13:32:27 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 5 lines

  Fix issue #1822: MIMEMultipart.is_multipart() behaves correctly for a
  just-created (and empty) instance.  Added tests for this. Thanks
  Jonathan Share.
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  r60074 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-19 14:33:20 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Polish sentence
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  r60075 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-19 14:46:06 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Added unit test to verify that threading.local doesn't cause ref leaks. It seems that the thread local storage always keeps the storage of the last stopped thread alive. Can anybody comment on it, please?
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  r60076 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-19 16:06:09 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Update for threading.local test.
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  r60077 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-19 16:16:37 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Polish sentence
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  r60078 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-19 16:22:16 +0100 (Sat, 19 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix typos.
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