Blocked revisions 62960 via svnmerge

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  r62960 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-05-09 17:49:43 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 5 lines

  Backport fast alternate io.BytesIO implementation.
  Merged r62778, r62779, r62802, r62806, r62807, r62808, r62809, r62844,
  r62846, r62952, r62956.
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