merge with future 5.5
Test also run on 3.8 with minor cosmetic change. The 'separate' function is not
available before 3.9 so we had to drop it.
This software was downloaded from
http://hg.netv6.net/evolve-main/
Copyright 2011 Peter Arrenbrecht <peter.arrenbrecht@gmail.com>
Logilab SA <contact@logilab.fr>
Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@ens-lyon.org>
Patrick Mezard <patrick@mezard.eu>
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