Blocked revisions 67498,67521,67581,67584,67587 via svnmerge

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  r67498 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-12-03 16:42:10 +0100 (Wed, 03 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  Backport r67478
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  r67521 | christian.heimes | 2008-12-04 15:34:40 +0100 (Thu, 04 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  Bumped up 2.6 to 2.7
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  r67581 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-05 16:42:03 +0100 (Fri, 05 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #3171: document that *slice are removed in 3k.
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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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