test_macfs found an error on the first day of its existence: round trips for date values to FSSpec.{Get,Set}Dates didn't work in MacPython-OS9. Fixed.

between cPickle and pickle.py regarding __safe_for_unpickling__ before
Python 2.3.

TempAbstractPickleTests, because they don't work with cPickle yet.

more, to make it easier to tell apart from the verbatim content.

interfere with the flow of the sentence.

pickletools:  Import decode_long from pickle instead of duplicating it.

sys.platform != mac.  Likewise expect test_win{reg,sound} to get skipped
on non-win32 platforms.

only get run by test_pickle.py now (& not by test_cpickle.py).  This
should be undone when protocol 2 is implemented in cPickle too.
test_cpickle should pass again.

__getnewargs__ method.

Also tidied up a few lines, got rid of apply(), added a comment.

fails, for reasons unrelated to this patch.

object.__reduce__, do a getattr() on the class so we can explicitly
test for it.  The reduce()-calling code becomes a bit more regular as
a result.

Also add support slots: if an object has slots, the default state is
(dict, slots) where dict is the __dict__ or None, and slots is a dict
mapping slot names to slot values.  We do a best-effort approach to
find slot names, assuming the __slots__ fields of classes aren't
modified after class definition time to misrepresent the actual list
of slots defined by a class.

and also create a symlink "python" pointing to "python$(VERSION)".
Fixes #675745.

non-windowing Python.

macostools.

isn't checked in yet. :-(

start for the C implemention of new pickle LONG1 and LONG4 opcodes (the
linear-time way to pickle a long is to call _PyLong_AsByteArray, but
the caller has no idea how big an array to allocate, and correct
calculation is a bit subtle).

possibility of calling save_reduce().  Add a special hack for this.
The tests for this are much simpler now (no __getstate__ or
__getnewargs__ needed).

Check return value of PyLong_AsDouble(), it can return an error.

after checking for __reduce__.

fixed a bug in load_newobj().

so merge from the bsddb-bsddb3-schizo-branch back to the trunk.

was used before string-escape codecs were added to the core.)

checks to save_reduce(), which can also be called from a subclass.)

Also tweaked some more comments.