Completely get rid of StringIO.py and cStringIO.c.

I had to fix a few tests and modules beyond what Christian did, and
invent a few conventions.  E.g. in elementtree, I chose to
write/return Unicode strings whe no encoding is given, but bytes when
an explicit encoding is given.  Also mimetools was made to always
assume binary files.

The problem is that ctypes c_char (and c_char_p) creates unicode string
instead of byte string. I attached a proposition (patch) to change this
behaviour (use bytes for c_char).

So in next example, it will display 'bytes' and not 'str':
  from ctypes import c_buffer, c_char
  buf = c_buffer("abcdef")
  print (type(buf[0]))

Other behaviour changes:
 - repr(c_char) adds a "b"
   eg. repr(c_char('x')) is "c_char(b'x')" instead of "c_char('x')"
 - bytes is mutable whereas str is not:
   this may break some modules based on ctypes

The HTTPResponse object is being passed to BufferedReader, but it
wasn't designed to be used that way.  These changes extend the hacks
that have already been made in urllib2 to get the tests to pass.

The hacks need to be removed and proper support for use with the io
library.  That's a project for another day.

(I'm not sure about it actually working though.)

I should not ignore compiler warnings!

We were using T_CHAR for a UNICODE character.
(This happened to work on x86 most of the time due to endianness;
but not on PPC.)

This fixes test_tarfile.py.
I've added a unit test for the correct bz2 behavior.

All code in the stdlib should be ASCII only, unless (a) it's test
input for testing the *parsing* of unicode, or (b) it's an author's
name in a comment.

We just need to force the encoding when no encoding is passed to toxml()
or toprettyxml(), rather than relying on the default encoding (which is
unreliable).

from name([e1, e2, ...]) to name({e1, e2, ...}).
This makes more sense now we have the set notation.

Finally kill intobject.c, which was #ifdef'ed out a long time ago.

All tests pass, but maybe some tests have become unnecessary now.
Removed PaxUnicodeTest, added MiscTest.

TarFile.extractfile() returns a binary file object which can be used
with a TextIOWrapper for text I/O.

Change plistlib to use bytes instead of strings.
Fix test_plistlib accordingly.

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

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  r56760 | neal.norwitz | 2007-08-05 18:55:39 -0700 (Sun, 05 Aug 2007) | 178 lines

  Merged revisions 56477-56759 via svnmerge from
  svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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    r56485 | facundo.batista | 2007-07-21 17:13:00 -0700 (Sat, 21 Jul 2007) | 5 lines


    Selectively enable tests for asyncore.readwrite based on the presence
    of poll support in the select module (since this is the only case in
    which readwrite can be called). [GSoC - Alan McIntyre]
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    r56488 | nick.coghlan | 2007-07-22 03:18:07 -0700 (Sun, 22 Jul 2007) | 1 line

    Add explicit relative import tests for runpy.run_module
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    r56509 | nick.coghlan | 2007-07-23 06:41:45 -0700 (Mon, 23 Jul 2007) | 5 lines

    Correctly cleanup sys.modules after executing runpy relative import
    tests
    Restore Python 2.4 ImportError when attempting to execute a package
    (as imports cannot be guaranteed to work properly if you try it)
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    r56519 | nick.coghlan | 2007-07-24 06:07:38 -0700 (Tue, 24 Jul 2007) | 1 line

    Tweak runpy test to do a better job of confirming that sys has been manipulated correctly
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    r56520 | nick.coghlan | 2007-07-24 06:58:28 -0700 (Tue, 24 Jul 2007) | 1 line

    Fix an incompatibility between the -i and -m command line switches as reported on python-dev by PJE - runpy.run_module now leaves any changes it makes to the sys module intact after the function terminates
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    r56523 | nick.coghlan | 2007-07-24 07:39:23 -0700 (Tue, 24 Jul 2007) | 1 line

    Try to get rid of spurious failure in test_resource on the Debian buildbots by changing the file size limit before attempting to close the file
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    r56533 | facundo.batista | 2007-07-24 14:20:42 -0700 (Tue, 24 Jul 2007) | 7 lines


    New tests for basic behavior of smtplib.SMTP and
    smtpd.DebuggingServer. Change to use global host & port number
    variables. Modified the 'server' to take a string to send back in
    order to vary test server responses. Added a test for the reaction of
    smtplib.SMTP to a non-200 HELO response. [GSoC - Alan McIntyre]
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    r56538 | nick.coghlan | 2007-07-25 05:57:48 -0700 (Wed, 25 Jul 2007) | 1 line

    More buildbot cleanup - let the OS assign the port for test_urllib2_localnet
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    r56539 | nick.coghlan | 2007-07-25 06:18:58 -0700 (Wed, 25 Jul 2007) | 1 line

    Add a temporary diagnostic message before a strange failure on the alpha Debian buildbot
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    r56543 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-07-25 09:24:23 -0700 (Wed, 25 Jul 2007) | 2 lines

    Change location of the package index to pypi.python.org/pypi
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    r56551 | georg.brandl | 2007-07-26 02:36:25 -0700 (Thu, 26 Jul 2007) | 2 lines

    tabs, newlines and crs are valid XML characters.
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    r56553 | nick.coghlan | 2007-07-26 07:03:00 -0700 (Thu, 26 Jul 2007) | 1 line

    Add explicit test for a misbehaving math.floor
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    r56561 | mark.hammond | 2007-07-26 21:52:32 -0700 (Thu, 26 Jul 2007) | 3 lines

    In consultation with Kristjan Jonsson, only define WINVER and _WINNT_WIN32
    if (a) we are building Python itself and (b) no one previously defined them
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    r56562 | mark.hammond | 2007-07-26 22:08:54 -0700 (Thu, 26 Jul 2007) | 2 lines

    Correctly detect AMD64 architecture on VC2003
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    r56566 | nick.coghlan | 2007-07-27 03:36:30 -0700 (Fri, 27 Jul 2007) | 1 line

    Make test_math error messages more meaningful for small discrepancies in results
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    r56588 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-07-27 11:28:22 -0700 (Fri, 27 Jul 2007) | 2 lines

    Bug #978833: Close https sockets by releasing the _ssl object.
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    r56601 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-07-28 00:03:05 -0700 (Sat, 28 Jul 2007) | 3 lines

    Bug #1704793: Return UTF-16 pair if unicodedata.lookup cannot
    represent the result in a single character.
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    r56604 | facundo.batista | 2007-07-28 07:21:22 -0700 (Sat, 28 Jul 2007) | 9 lines


    Moved all of the capture_server socket setup code into the try block
    so that the event gets set if a failure occurs during server setup
    (otherwise the test will block forever).  Changed to let the OS assign
    the server port number, and client side of test waits for port number
    assignment before proceeding. The test data in DispatcherWithSendTests
    is also sent in multiple send() calls instead of one to make sure this
    works properly. [GSoC - Alan McIntyre]
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    r56611 | georg.brandl | 2007-07-29 01:26:10 -0700 (Sun, 29 Jul 2007) | 2 lines

    Clarify PEP 343 description.
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    r56614 | georg.brandl | 2007-07-29 02:11:15 -0700 (Sun, 29 Jul 2007) | 2 lines

    try-except-finally is new in 2.5.
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    r56617 | facundo.batista | 2007-07-29 07:23:08 -0700 (Sun, 29 Jul 2007) | 9 lines


    Added tests for asynchat classes simple_producer & fifo, and the
    find_prefix_at_end function. Check behavior of a string given as a
    producer.  Added tests for behavior of asynchat.async_chat when given
    int, long, and None terminator arguments. Added usepoll attribute to
    TestAsynchat to allow running the asynchat tests with poll support
    chosen whether it's available or not (improves coverage of asyncore
    code). [GSoC - Alan McIntyre]
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    r56620 | georg.brandl | 2007-07-29 10:38:35 -0700 (Sun, 29 Jul 2007) | 2 lines

    Bug #1763149: use proper slice syntax in docstring.
     (backport)
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    r56624 | mark.hammond | 2007-07-29 17:45:29 -0700 (Sun, 29 Jul 2007) | 4 lines

    Correct use of Py_BUILD_CORE - now make sure it is defined before it is
    referenced, and also fix definition of _WIN32_WINNT.
    Resolves patch 1761803.
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    r56632 | facundo.batista | 2007-07-30 20:03:34 -0700 (Mon, 30 Jul 2007) | 8 lines


    When running asynchat tests on OS X (darwin), the test client now
    overrides asyncore.dispatcher.handle_expt to do nothing, since
    select.poll gives a POLLHUP error at the completion of these tests.
    Added timeout & count arguments to several asyncore.loop calls to
    avoid the possibility of a test hanging up a build. [GSoC - Alan
    McIntyre]
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    r56633 | nick.coghlan | 2007-07-31 06:38:01 -0700 (Tue, 31 Jul 2007) | 1 line

    Eliminate RLock race condition reported in SF bug #1764059
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    r56636 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-07-31 12:57:56 -0700 (Tue, 31 Jul 2007) | 2 lines

    Define _BSD_SOURCE, to get access to POSIX extensions on OpenBSD 4.1+.
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    r56653 | facundo.batista | 2007-08-01 16:18:36 -0700 (Wed, 01 Aug 2007) | 9 lines


    Allow the OS to select a free port for each test server. For
    DebuggingServerTests, construct SMTP objects with a localhost argument
    to avoid abysmally long FQDN lookups (not relevant to items under
    test) on some machines that would cause the test to fail. Moved server
    setup code in the server function inside the try block to avoid the
    possibility of setup failure hanging the test.  Minor edits to conform
    to PEP 8. [GSoC - Alan McIntyre]
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    r56681 | matthias.klose | 2007-08-02 14:33:13 -0700 (Thu, 02 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

    - Allow Emacs 22 for building the documentation in info format.
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    r56689 | neal.norwitz | 2007-08-02 23:46:29 -0700 (Thu, 02 Aug 2007) | 1 line

    Py_ssize_t is defined regardless of HAVE_LONG_LONG.  Will backport
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    r56727 | hyeshik.chang | 2007-08-03 21:10:18 -0700 (Fri, 03 Aug 2007) | 3 lines

    Fix gb18030 codec's bug that doesn't map two-byte characters on
    GB18030 extension in encoding. (bug reported by Bjorn Stabell)
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    r56751 | neal.norwitz | 2007-08-04 20:23:31 -0700 (Sat, 04 Aug 2007) | 7 lines

    Handle errors when generating a warning.
    The value is always written to the returned pointer if getting it was
    successful, even if a warning causes an error. (This probably doesn't matter
    as the caller will probably discard the value.)

    Will backport.
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Fix csv to read/write bytes from/to binary files.
Fix the unit tests to test this and to use with TemporaryFile().

Thanks Paul Colomiets.

and StringValues classes. Fix test suite.

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

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  r56497 | kurt.kaiser | 2007-07-22 14:55:16 -0700 (Sun, 22 Jul 2007) | 4 lines

  In the case of syntax errors, in py3k format_exception_only()
  was including line number and position in the final line of the
  exception notification, duplicating info in previous lines.
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  r56501 | kurt.kaiser | 2007-07-22 19:35:50 -0700 (Sun, 22 Jul 2007) | 2 lines

  Hum, needed a newline in the last change.
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  r56536 | kurt.kaiser | 2007-07-24 19:06:48 -0700 (Tue, 24 Jul 2007) | 5 lines

  Not all instantiations of SyntaxError set the args attribute.
  e.g. symtable.c
  Modify format_exception_only() to get SyntaxError attributes directly
  instead of unpacking 'args'.
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  r56537 | kurt.kaiser | 2007-07-24 19:13:03 -0700 (Tue, 24 Jul 2007) | 3 lines

  Update doctest strings: traceback.py no longer prints redundant location
  information in the last line of the exception display.
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  r56627 | kurt.kaiser | 2007-07-29 21:06:57 -0700 (Sun, 29 Jul 2007) | 2 lines

  Interactive interpreter emulator (code.py) failing to print exceptions.
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  r56628 | kurt.kaiser | 2007-07-29 21:41:02 -0700 (Sun, 29 Jul 2007) | 2 lines

  Eliminate extra lines before and after tracebacks.
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  r56638 | kurt.kaiser | 2007-07-31 19:36:45 -0700 (Tue, 31 Jul 2007) | 3 lines

  Refactor syntax error display in shell and edit windows; move
  colorize_syntax_error() to EditorWindow; update to py3k.
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  r56685 | neal.norwitz | 2007-08-02 22:20:23 -0700 (Thu, 02 Aug 2007) | 10 lines

  Remove several h/w and o/s specific modules that are undocumented, obsolete,
  and/or not widely used:
   linuxaudiodev.c, sunaudiodev.c Lib/plat-sunos5/SUNAUDIODEV.py
   Lib/audiodev.py Tools/audiopy/audiopy

  Move Lib/toaiff.py to Demo.

  See PEP 3108 for most of the details.
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  r56686 | neal.norwitz | 2007-08-02 22:21:48 -0700 (Thu, 02 Aug 2007) | 4 lines

  Missed one module that should have been removed since it relied
  on audiodev which was removed.
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  r56748 | neal.norwitz | 2007-08-04 19:19:04 -0700 (Sat, 04 Aug 2007) | 1 line

  Make from X import * outside module scope an error.
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  r56750 | neal.norwitz | 2007-08-04 19:35:01 -0700 (Sat, 04 Aug 2007) | 1 line

  Use READONLY consistently instead of RO
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Changes the way the httplib classes are stubbed out.

The HTTP class is a backwards compatibility layer for the Python 1.5
API.  (The only remaining use in the std library is xmlrpclib.)

The current change makes urllib issue HTTP/1.0 requests with
HTTPConnection, because is accesses HTTPResponse.fp directly instead
of using the read() method.  Using fp directly interacts poorly with
persistent connections.  There are probably better solutions than the
current one, but this is a start.