* Decode thousands separator and decimal point using PyUnicode_DecodeLocale()
   (from the locale encoding), instead of decoding them implicitly from latin1
 * Remove _PyUnicode_InsertThousandsGroupingLocale(), it was not used
 * Change _PyUnicode_InsertThousandsGrouping() API to return the maximum
   character if unicode is NULL
 * Replace MIN/MAX macros by Py_MIN/Py_MAX
 * stringlib/undef.h undefines STRINGLIB_IS_UNICODE
 * stringlib/localeutil.h only supports Unicode

 * If needle is 0, try (p[0] >> 16) & 0xff for UCS4
 * Disable fastsearch_memchr_1char() if needle is zero for UCS2 and UCS4

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  r77461 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-01-13 08:55:48 +0100 (mer., 13 janv. 2010) | 5 lines

  Issue #7622: Improve the split(), rsplit(), splitlines() and replace()
  methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
  implementation based on stringlib's fast search.  Patch by Florent Xicluna.
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methods of bytes, bytearray and unicode objects by using a common
implementation based on stringlib's fast search.  Patch by Florent Xicluna.

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  r77241 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-01-02 22:12:58 +0100 (sam., 02 janv. 2010) | 4 lines

  Issue #7462: Implement the stringlib fast search algorithm for the `rfind`,
  `rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods.  Patch by Florent Xicluna.
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`rindex`, `rsplit` and `rpartition` methods.  Patch by Florent Xicluna.

Issue #5748: bytesobject.c should not have its own private defines for stringlib macros. Also removed unused defines and include for localutil.h.

This is incomplete, but I want to get some version into the next alpha. I am still working on:
Documentation.
More tests.
Implement for floats.

In addition, there's an existing bug with 'n' formatting that carries forward to thousands grouping (issue 5515).

The repr() of a string now contains printable Unicode characters unescaped.
The new ascii() builtin can be used to get a repr() with only ASCII characters in it.

PEP and patch were written by Atsuo Ishimoto.

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When forward porting this, I added _PyUnicode_InsertThousandsGrouping.

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  r63078 | eric.smith | 2008-05-11 15:52:48 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 14 lines

  Addresses issue 2802: 'n' formatting for integers.

  Adds 'n' as a format specifier for integers, to mirror the same
  specifier which is already available for floats.  'n' is the same as
  'd', but inserts the current locale-specific thousands grouping.

  I added this as a stringlib function, but it's only used by str type,
  not unicode.  This is because of an implementation detail in
  unicode.format(), which does its own str->unicode conversion.  But the
  unicode version will be needed in 3.0, and it may be needed by other
  code eventually in 2.6 (maybe decimal?), so I left it as a stringlib
  implementation.  As long as the unicode version isn't instantiated,
  there's no overhead for this.
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Adds 'n' as a format specifier for integers, to mirror the same
specifier which is already available for floats.  'n' is the same as
'd', but inserts the current locale-specific thousands grouping.

I added this as a stringlib function, but it's only used by str type,
not unicode.  This is because of an implementation detail in
unicode.format(), which does its own str->unicode conversion.  But the
unicode version will be needed in 3.0, and it may be needed by other
code eventually in 2.6 (maybe decimal?), so I left it as a stringlib
implementation.  As long as the unicode version isn't instantiated,
there's no overhead for this.

formatting.

Includes:
 - Modifying tests for basic types to use __format__ methods, instead
   of builtin "format".
 - Adding PyObject_Format.
 - General str/unicode cleanup discovered when backporting to 2.6.
 - Removing datetimemodule.c's time_format, since it was identical
   to date_format.

The files in Objects/stringlib that implement PEP 3101 (stringdefs.h,
unicodedefs.h, formatter.h, string_format.h) are identical in trunk
and py3k.  Any changes from here on should be made to trunk, and
changes will propogate to py3k).

Highlights:
 - Adding PyObject_Format.
 - Adding string.Format class.
 - Adding __format__ for str, unicode, int, long, float, datetime.
 - Adding builtin format.
 - Adding ''.format and u''.format.
 - str/unicode fixups for formatters.

The files in Objects/stringlib that implement PEP 3101 (stringdefs.h,
unicodedefs.h, formatter.h, string_format.h) are identical in trunk
and py3k.  Any changes from here on should be made to trunk, and
changes will propogate to py3k).

#define for PyObject_Unicode in object.h.

to be called a buffer).  Shares code with stringobject when possible.
Adds unit tests with common code that should be usable to test the PEPs
mutable buffer() and immutable bytes() types.

 http://bugs.python.org/issue1261

Changed STRINGLIB_CMP from an inline function to a macro in order to avoid a 'defined but not used' warning.

Known issues:

The string.Formatter class, as discussed in the PEP, is incomplete.

Error handling needs to conform to the PEP.

Need to fix this warning that I introduced in Python/formatter_unicode.c:
Objects/stringlib/unicodedefs.h:26: warning: `STRINGLIB_CMP' defined but not used

Need to make sure sign formatting is correct, more tests needed.

Need to remove '()' sign formatting, left over from an earlier version of the PEP.