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  r79927 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-04-10 11:22:05 -0500 (Sat, 10 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  bump version to 2.7b1
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  r79928 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-04-10 11:28:34 -0500 (Sat, 10 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  update pydoc-topics
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  r79930 | raymond.hettinger | 2010-04-10 11:57:36 -0500 (Sat, 10 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  Issue 8361: Remove assert from functools.total_ordering\ 1
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  r79932 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-04-10 13:53:58 -0500 (Sat, 10 Apr 2010) | 1 line

  towards beta 2
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