merging revision 73819 from trunk

merging revision 73819 from trunk

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  r73834 | tarek.ziade | 2009-07-04 04:59:19 +0200 (Sat, 04 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  using print statements when used for user interaction
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  r73825 | gregory.p.smith | 2009-07-03 18:49:29 -0700 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009) | 9 lines

  Use select.poll() in subprocess, when available, rather than select() so that
  it does not fail when file descriptors are large.  Fixes issue3392.

  Patch largely contributed by Frank Chu (fpmc) with some improvements by me.
  See http://bugs.python.org/issue3392.
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  r73826 | gregory.p.smith | 2009-07-03 18:55:11 -0700 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009) | 2 lines

  news entry for r73825
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Candidate for backporting to release31-maint as it is a bug fix and changes no
public API.

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  r73818 | gregory.p.smith | 2009-07-03 13:48:31 -0700 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009) | 2 lines

  Adds the select.PIPE_BUF attribute to expose the system constant.
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  r73827 | tarek.ziade | 2009-07-04 04:02:41 +0200 (Sat, 04 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  Fixed #6413: fixed log level in distutils.dist.announce
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Incorrect exception handling for xmlrpclient retry

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  r73814 | tarek.ziade | 2009-07-03 21:01:12 +0200 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  basic tests to raise distutils.file_util coverage
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  r73815 | tarek.ziade | 2009-07-03 21:14:49 +0200 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  cleaned distutils.file_util
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  r73801 | tarek.ziade | 2009-07-03 11:01:07 +0200 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  cleaned up distutils.command.build_py
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  r73790 | tarek.ziade | 2009-07-03 10:22:56 +0200 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  Fixed #6403 : package path usage for build_ext
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only root could start IDLE for example.

Beware that os.path.walk does not translate as is to os.walk!
the former uses a callback to call on each dir, the latter is a generator...

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  r73781 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-07-02 16:38:36 -0500 (Thu, 02 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  test that compile() accepts the future flag
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  r73776 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-07-02 13:16:45 -0500 (Thu, 02 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  when print() gets unicode arguments, sep and end should be unicode by default #4618
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  r73767 | jesus.cea | 2009-07-02 16:30:18 +0200 (Thu, 02 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  multiprocessing doesn't compile in Solaris because a typo
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  r73762 | tarek.ziade | 2009-07-02 16:20:47 +0200 (Thu, 02 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  pep8-fied and cleaned up distutils.util
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  r73756 | tarek.ziade | 2009-07-02 14:47:54 +0200 (Thu, 02 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  raising bdist_dumb test coverage
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  r73757 | tarek.ziade | 2009-07-02 14:51:56 +0200 (Thu, 02 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  cleaned up the bdist_dumb module
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  r73744 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-07-01 08:34:35 -0500 (Wed, 01 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  proxy the __exit__ call
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  r73638 | kristjan.jonsson | 2009-06-28 16:04:17 -0500 (Sun, 28 Jun 2009) | 2 lines

  http://bugs.python.org/issue6267
  Cumulative patch to http and xmlrpc
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  r73697 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-06-29 14:10:29 -0500 (Mon, 29 Jun 2009) | 1 line

  Issue 6370: Performance issue with collections.Counter().
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