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commit 60a1cd1bc1042a9959ae75ff006052c433d98825
Author: Michael Mueller <michaeldmueller7@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Jun 18 18:40:17 2014 -0400

    Fixed error with string/numerical types

commit 7fe1bcf75466ea2b19d947aff0769c9f03bc23f5
Author: Michael Mueller <michaeldmueller7@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Jun 18 17:47:56 2014 -0400

    release notes

commit 835e490c8d3a3a96aeb6a6c3846217d36469656b
Author: Michael Mueller <michaeldmueller7@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Jun 18 17:15:17 2014 -0400

    Release note

commit 25cee3167b81b9c81e969629cd83968c6736a94f
Author: Michael Mueller <michaeldmueller7@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Jun 18 16:56:44 2014 -0400

    Fixed whitespace issue, made C parser check for delimiters in whitespace lines

commit 593495eb15162833de78d2da65f377fa977ad225
Author: Michael Mueller <michaeldmueller7@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Jun 18 15:41:52 2014 -0400

    Added new functionality to Python reader

commit 8a8325ed883034f176c929b41fe6fad16420e9b5
Author: Michael Mueller <michaeldmueller7@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Jun 17 19:52:41 2014 -0400

    Adjusted tokenizer to ignore whitespace-only lines, fixed tests

commit 3ea2eed22884a63a6e8dec1b795acdf29b030949
Author: Michael Mueller <michaeldmueller7@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Jun 16 12:36:14 2014 -0400

    Moved tests to C parsing suite, corrected multi-index test

commit d5540311ca44992148932ae27e16fc4d02a2a018
Author: Michael Mueller <michaeldmueller7@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Jun 16 12:35:46 2014 -0400

    Changed empty file handling so that a ValueError is raised as expected

commit 03a4c3d27c18052f04bd7cb862d289eabbc773ba
Author: Michael Mueller <michaeldmueller7@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Jun 15 23:07:17 2014 -0400

    Wrote tests for empty lines and comment lines

commit 01db817e97fc8ee0da85cc17603578b56d294b1b
Author: Michael Mueller <michaeldmueller7@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Jun 15 23:02:04 2014 -0400

    Modified C tokenizer so that comments and empty lines are ignored