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author Simon Howkins <simonh@symbian.org>
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:57:59 +0100
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Re-apply changes to allow sources.csv to specify a revision by a *local* tag in the web repository. Uses "hg id" instead of "hg in", so not affected by the aborts we had previously. And no need for an empty repo this time either.

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<h1 class="epydoc">Class NestedConfiguration</h1><span class="codelink"><a href="configuration-pysrc.html#NestedConfiguration">source&nbsp;code</a></span><br /><br />
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            object --+    
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UserDict.DictMixin --+    
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  Set an item from the configuration via dictionary interface.
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