(Contributed by Michael R Bax.)

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SF patch #1057588; other changes make the rest of the patch out of date
or otherwise unnecessary

(closes SF bug #736659, patch #901369)

   when using X11 and the Fink distribution.  Python Bug 1263656.
2. Eliminate duplicated code in ScriptBinding.run_module_event()
Modified Files:
 	NEWS.txt ScriptBinding.py

A new hashlib module to replace the md5 and sha modules.  It adds
support for additional secure hashes such as SHA-256 and SHA-512.  The
hashlib module uses OpenSSL for fast platform optimized
implementations of algorithms when available.  The old md5 and sha
modules still exist as wrappers around hashlib to preserve backwards
compatibility.

(Contributed by Michael R Bax.)

sequences ==> iterables

Minor clarification.

Fix over-aggressive PyErr_Clear().  The same code fragment appears in
various guises in list.extend(), map(), filter(), zip(), and internally
in PySequence_Tuple().

* set_merge() cannot assume that the table doesn't resize during iteration.

* convert some unnecessary tests to asserts -- they were necessary in
  dictobject.c because PyDict_Next() is a public function.  The same is
  not true for set_next().

* re-arrange the order of functions to more closely match the order
  in dictobject.c.  This makes it must easier to compare the two
  and ought to simplify any issues of maintaining both.

hotshot.stats.load.

* Use set_next() for looping in issubset() and frozenset_hash().
* Re-order the presentation of cmp and hash functions.

was never called during interpreter shutdown GC, so the f_back!=NULL
assertion was correct.  Now that generators get close()d during GC,
the assertion was being triggered because the generator close() was being
called as the top-level frame.  However, nothing actually is broken by
this; it's just that the condition was unexpected in previous Python
versions.