Python now supports checking bytecode cache up-to-dateness with a hash of the
source contents rather than volatile source metadata. See the PEP for details.

While a fairly straightforward idea, quite a lot of code had to be modified due
to the pervasiveness of pyc implementation details in the codebase. Changes in
this commit include:

- The core changes to importlib to understand how to read, validate, and
  regenerate hash-based pycs.

- Support for generating hash-based pycs in py_compile and compileall.

- Modifications to our siphash implementation to support passing a custom
  key. We then expose it to importlib through _imp.

- Updates to all places in the interpreter, standard library, and tests that
  manually generate or parse pyc files to grok the new format.

- Support in the interpreter command line code for long options like
  --check-hash-based-pycs.

- Tests and documentation for all of the above.

It is better to not change this in bugfix release.

Use directly dis.opmap[name] rather than dis.opname.index(name).

Patch written by Demur Rumed.

DeprecationWarning.

Thanks to Martin Panter for finding the tests.

The concept of .pyo files no longer exists. Now .pyc files have an
optional `opt-` tag which specifies if any extra optimizations beyond
the peepholer were applied.

Bug filed and initial attempt at a patch by Bohuslav Kabrda.

To make sure there is no issue with code that is both Python 2 and 3
compatible, there are no plans to remove the module any sooner than
Python 4 (unless the community moves to Python 3 solidly before then).

Also fix Misc/ACKS to put part of it back in alphabetical order and
remove some duplicate names.

Patch by Berker Peksag.

importlib.machinery that provide the suffix details for import.
The attributes were not put on imp so as to compartmentalize
everything importlib needs for setting up imports in
importlib.machinery.

This also led to an indirect deprecation of inspect.getmoduleinfo() as
it directly returned imp.get_suffix's returned tuple which no longer
makes sense.

The tests don’t use an internal distutils function anymore, and use
regular assertEqual with sorted lists instead of a convoluted manual
diff.

Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r67028 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-10-25 18:27:07 -0500 (Sat, 25 Oct 2008) | 1 line

  don't use a catch-all
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  r67040 | armin.rigo | 2008-10-28 12:01:21 -0500 (Tue, 28 Oct 2008) | 5 lines

  Fix one of the tests: it relied on being present in an "output test" in
  order to actually test what it was supposed to test, i.e. that the code
  in the __del__ method did not crash.  Use instead the new helper
  test_support.captured_output().
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  r67044 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-10-29 18:15:57 -0500 (Wed, 29 Oct 2008) | 3 lines

  Correct error message in io.open():
  closefd=True is the only accepted value with a file name.
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  r67046 | thomas.heller | 2008-10-30 15:18:13 -0500 (Thu, 30 Oct 2008) | 2 lines

  Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
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  r67052 | christian.heimes | 2008-10-30 16:26:15 -0500 (Thu, 30 Oct 2008) | 1 line

  Issue #4237: io.FileIO() was raising invalid warnings caused by insufficient initialization of PyFileIOObject struct members.
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  r67065 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-10-30 18:59:18 -0500 (Thu, 30 Oct 2008) | 1 line

  move unprefixed error into .c file
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  r67070 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-10-31 15:41:44 -0500 (Fri, 31 Oct 2008) | 1 line

  rephrase has_key doc
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  r67077 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-03 09:14:51 -0600 (Mon, 03 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  #4048 make the parser module accept relative imports as valid
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  r67082 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2008-11-03 12:03:06 -0600 (Mon, 03 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  Issue #3774: Fixed an error when create a Tkinter menu item without command
  and then remove it. Written by Guilherme Polo (gpolo).
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  r67046 | thomas.heller | 2008-10-30 21:18:13 +0100 (Do, 30 Okt 2008) | 2 lines

  Fixed a modulefinder crash on certain relative imports.
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  r59195 | facundo.batista | 2007-11-27 19:50:12 +0100 (Tue, 27 Nov 2007) | 4 lines


  Moved the errno import from inside the functions to the
  module level.  Fixes issue 1755179.
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  r59199 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-27 22:28:40 +0100 (Tue, 27 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Backport of changes to PCbuild9 from the py3k branch
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  r59200 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-27 22:34:01 +0100 (Tue, 27 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Replaced import of the 'new' module with 'types' module and added a deprecation warning to the 'new' module.
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  r59201 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-27 22:35:44 +0100 (Tue, 27 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Added a deprecation warning to the 'new' module.
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Replaced import of the 'new' module with 'types' module and added a deprecation warning to the 'new' module.

No detailed change log; just check out the change log for the py3k-pep3137
branch.  The most obvious changes:

  - str8 renamed to bytes (PyString at the C level);
  - bytes renamed to buffer (PyBytes at the C level);
  - PyString and PyUnicode are no longer compatible.

I.e. we now have an immutable bytes type and a mutable bytes type.

The behavior of PyString was modified quite a bit, to make it more
bytes-like.  Some changes are still on the to-do list.

Code that has been returning str8 becomes much more apparent thanks to this
(e.g., struct module returning str8 for all string-related formats or sqlite3
passing in str8 instances when converting objects that had a __conform__
method).  One also has to watch out in C code when making a key from char *
using PyString in the C code but a str instance in Python code as that will not
longer compare equal.

Once str8 gains a constructor like the current bytes type then
test_modulefinder needs a cleanup as the fix is a little messy in that file.

Thanks goes to Thomas Lee for writing the patch for the change giving an
initial run-down of why most of the tests were failing.

Make PyString's indexing and iteration return integers.
(I changed a few of Alexandre's decisions -- GvR.)

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/p3yk

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  r55329 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-14 16:36:56 -0700 (Mon, 14 May 2007) | 3 lines

  Implement the removal of tuple parameter unpacking (PEP 3113).
  Thanks, Tony Lownds for the patch.
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  r55331 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-14 16:40:30 -0700 (Mon, 14 May 2007) | 1 line

  Update to use Python 3.0
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  r55332 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-14 16:47:18 -0700 (Mon, 14 May 2007) | 2 lines

  Mention PEP 3113.  And thanks to Tony Lownds for the PEP 3113 patch.
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  r55333 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-14 16:57:06 -0700 (Mon, 14 May 2007) | 1 line

  Fix exception printing (no more exceptions module)
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  r55334 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-14 17:11:10 -0700 (Mon, 14 May 2007) | 1 line

  Remove popen* functions from os
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  r55335 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-14 18:03:38 -0700 (Mon, 14 May 2007) | 1 line

  Get rid of most of popen.  There are still some uses I need to cleanup.
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  r55336 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-14 21:11:34 -0700 (Mon, 14 May 2007) | 1 line

  Remove a few more remnants of the compiler package
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  r55337 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-14 22:28:27 -0700 (Mon, 14 May 2007) | 1 line

  Get test_[cx]pickle working on 64-bit platforms (avoid overflow int/long)
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There's one major and one minor category still unfixed:
doctests are the major category (and I hope to be able to augment the
refactoring tool to refactor bona fide doctests soon);
other code generating print statements in strings is the minor category.

(Oh, and I don't know if the compiler package works.)

(a) "except E, V" -> "except E as V"
(b) V is now limited to a simple name (local variable)
(c) V is now deleted at the end of the except block

tests.

Will backport to release25-maint.

Not all code has been fixed yet; this is just a checkpoint...
The C API still has PyDict_HasKey() and _HasKeyString(); not sure
if I want to change those just yet.

Already backported to release23-maint.