doesn't support the same funcationality as on Unix.  I'm not sure if
this fix is the best (or if it will even work)--it's a test to see
if the buildbots start passing again.

It might be better to not even run this test if it's windows (or non-posix).

Is there really no other way to read the umask than to set it?

Hope this works on Windows...

described, and add a test for it.

2.5 bugfix candidate, maybe; arguably this patch changes the API of
dumbdbm and shouldn't be added in a point-release.

[Bug #1172763] dumbdbm uses eval() on lines, so it chokes if there's an extra \r on the end of a line; fixed by stripping off trailing whitespace.

closing idempotent (it used to raise a nuisance exception on the 2nd
close attempt).

Bugfix candidate?  Probably, but arguable.

Weinberg).  This changes all uses of deprecated tempfile functions to
the recommended ones.

imports e.g. test_support must do so using an absolute package name
such as "import test.test_support" or "from test import test_support".

This also updates the README in Lib/test, and gets rid of the
duplicate data dirctory in Lib/test/data (replaced by
Lib/email/test/data).

Now Tim and Jack can have at it. :)

add test case for bug #482460

for dumbdbm.py, by Skip Montanaro.  The first half of Skip's patch has
been postponed until Py2.3 since it adds new features.