from ?iga Seilnacht (sorry about the name, but Firefox
on my box can't display the first character of the name --
the SF "Unix name" is zseil).

This appears to cure the oddball intermittent leaks across
runs when running test_exceptions under -R.  I'm not sure
why, but I'm too sleepy to care ;-)

The thrust of the SF patch was to remove randomness in the
pickle protocol used.  I changed the patch to use
range(pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL + 1), to try both pickle and
cPickle, and randomly mucked with other test lines to put
statements on their own lines.

Not a bugfix candidate (this is fiddling new-in-2.5 code).

different results across -R runs (at least on Windows) of
test_filecmp.

configuration files during a framework install.

  with --enable-framework
* Also for --enable-framework: allow users to use --prefix to specify
  the location of the compatibility symlinks (such as /usr/local/bin/python)

This fixes the callback function tests that return float.

big endian platforms.

by mistake in rev 46693, so reverting this part of
rev 46693.

parameter strings") changed this function's signature
seemingly by mistake, which is causing buildbots to fail
test_bsddb3.  Restored the pre-46688 signature.

Found them using::

  find . -name '*.py' | while read i ; do grep 'def[^(]*( ' $i /dev/null ; done
  find . -name '*.py' | while read i ; do grep ' ):' $i /dev/null ; done

(I was doing this all over my own code anyway, because I'd been using spaces in
all defs, so I thought I'd make a run on the Python code as well.  If you need
to do such fixes in your own code, you can use xx-rename or parenregu.el within
emacs.)

structmember typecode for Py_ssize_t fields.  This should fix some of
the errors on the PPC64 debian machine (64-bit, big endian).

Assigning to readonly fields now raises AttributeError instead of
TypeError, so the testcase has to be changed as well.

exact maximum size someone guesses is needed.  In this case, if
we're really worried about extreme integers, then "cp%d" can
actually need 14 bytes (2 for "cp" + 1 for \0 at the end +
11 for -(2**31-1)).  So reserve 128 bytes instead -- nothing is
actually saved by making a stack-local buffer tiny.

  results.  It could previously incorrectly return 0 in some cases.
  Fixes SF bug 1493322 (pybsddb bug 1184012).

Add 3 more bytes to a buffer to cover constants in string and null byte on top of 10 possible digits for an int.

Closes bug #1501223.

string_reverse():  Simplify.

assertRaises():  Raise TestFailed on failure.

test_unpack_from(), test_pack_into(), test_pack_into_fn():  never
use `assert` to test for an expected result (it doesn't test anything
when Python is run with -O).

    supplied [SF pybsddb bug #1477863]