History
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Changes in 0.6 (released 03/11/2003)
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  * Updated the timestamp functionality so that with Python 2.3 the
    datetime module will be used for timestamps.


Changes in 0.5 (released 08/27/2002)
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  * fileutils has been moved to the ll package.


Changes in 0.4.1 (released 03/18/2002)
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  * Added methods openread and openwrite to be compatible to the new
    url module.
  * Added a function getFirst that returns the first existing file/
    directory from a list.
  * Added a method withoutExt to Filename that returns the filename
    without an extension.


Changes in 0.4 (released 10/02/2001)
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  * Joining Filenames is now done with __div__ instead of __add__.
  * Filenames will no longer be made absolute.
  * Filename can now recognise URLs (i.e. something that starts with
    "file:") as a filename.
  * More docstrings.


Changes in 0.3 (released 08/30/2001)
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  * Filename now has a new method withExt, that returns the same
    filename, but replaces the extention with a new one.


Changes in 0.2 (released 07/19/2001)
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  * The function forceopen has been removed. Use the new class Filename
    instead.


Changes in 0.1.1 (released 04/10/2001)
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  * Fixed several bugs in SafeFile. The encoding constructor parameter
    has been removed from SafeFile.__init__.


Changes in 0.1 (released 03/26/2001)
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  * Initial release