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Universal Feed Parser 3.1

Virtually all of the bug fixes and improvements in this release were suggested by Aaron Swartz. Thanks for that.

Convert HTML entities to their Unicode equivalents.
Improved test for the existence of a valid XML parser before declaring XML_AVAILABLE.
New optional handlers parameter takes an arbitrary list of urllib2 handlers. This lets you do things like download password-protected feeds.
Expose download-related exceptions in bozo_exception.
Add __contains__ method to FeedParserDict for better compatibility with Python 2.1.
Add publisher_detail.
Add documentation on namespace handling. The handling hasn’t changed; it’s just documented now.
Various minor improvements to documentation.

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