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- doctest now excludes functions and classes not defined by the module
being tested, thanks to Tim Hochberg.
+- profile now produces correct output in situations where an exception
+ raised in Python is cleared by C code (e.g. hasattr()). This used
+ to cause wrong output, including spurious claims of recursive
+ functions and attribution of time spent to the wrong function.
+
- quopri's encode and decode methods take an optional header parameter,
which indicates whether output is intended for the header 'Q' encoding.