+ fixed an obvious merge glitch in a windows-only test.

Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.

I added a _PyVerify_fd() call to os.device_encoding() (new in python 3.0)
which also uses a raw file descriptor.

Add some cross-references to the docs.  Simplify the python code equivalent for zip().  Supply an optional argument for the nth() recipe.

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  r69576 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-13 04:56:50 -0600 (Fri, 13 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  #1661108: note that urlsafe encoded string can contain "=".
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  r69579 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-13 05:06:59 -0600 (Fri, 13 Feb 2009) | 2 lines

  Fix warnings GCC emits where the argument of PyErr_Format is a single variable.
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  r69580 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-13 05:10:04 -0600 (Fri, 13 Feb 2009) | 2 lines

  Fix warnings GCC emits where the argument of PyErr_Format is a single variable.
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  r69589 | martin.v.loewis | 2009-02-13 14:11:34 -0600 (Fri, 13 Feb 2009) | 2 lines

  Move amd64 properties further to the top, so that they override
  the linker options correctly.
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  r69619 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-14 11:00:51 -0600 (Sat, 14 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  this needn't be a shebang line
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  r69620 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-14 11:01:36 -0600 (Sat, 14 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  #5179: don't leak PIPE fds when child execution fails.
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  r69633 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2009-02-15 03:19:48 -0600 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  Fixed typo.
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  r69703 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-02-16 16:42:54 -0600 (Mon, 16 Feb 2009) | 3 lines

  Issue 5229: Documentation for super() neglects to say what super() actually does
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  r69704 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-02-16 17:00:25 -0600 (Mon, 16 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  Add explanation for super(type1, type2).
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  r69728 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-17 18:22:55 -0600 (Tue, 17 Feb 2009) | 2 lines

  #5297: fix example.
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  r69729 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-17 18:25:13 -0600 (Tue, 17 Feb 2009) | 2 lines

  #5296: sequence -> iterable.
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  r69730 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-17 18:31:36 -0600 (Tue, 17 Feb 2009) | 2 lines

  #5268: mention VMSError.
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  r69748 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-02-18 20:15:14 -0600 (Wed, 18 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  Add keyword arg support to itertools.compress().
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  r69751 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-02-18 20:38:25 -0600 (Wed, 18 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  Add keyword arg support to itertools.repeat().
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  r69716 | ronald.oussoren | 2009-02-17 06:38:42 -0600 (Tue, 17 Feb 2009) | 2 lines

  Fix issue776533.
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  r69414 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-07 12:49:54 -0600 (Sat, 07 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  make "super only for new-style classes" a note.
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  r69561 | gregory.p.smith | 2009-02-12 21:00:00 -0600 (Thu, 12 Feb 2009) | 5 lines

  - Issue #3745: Fix hashlib to always reject unicode and non buffer-api
    supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
    implementations or external openssl library).
  (backported from a py3k branch)
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  r69604 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-02-13 18:25:51 -0600 (Fri, 13 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  Add keyword argument support to itertools.count().
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  r69672 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-16 08:54:34 -0600 (Mon, 16 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  note functions that are not aliased to PyBytes_ #5280
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  r69689 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-16 15:09:09 -0600 (Mon, 16 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  remove some PyBytes_* aliases that are not in 3.x
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  r69709 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-02-17 02:33:01 -0600 (Tue, 17 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  Fix-up intro paragraph for collections docs.
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  r69715 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-02-17 05:00:27 -0600 (Tue, 17 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  Fixup intro paragraphs for the itertools docs.  Add some tables for quick reference.
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  r69717 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2009-02-17 06:48:19 -0600 (Tue, 17 Feb 2009) | 5 lines

  Clarify the deprecation of platform.dist().

  Add versionadded tags.
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  r69739 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-02-18 14:54:53 -0600 (Wed, 18 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  Generalize the itertools.tee() recipe.
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  r69743 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-02-18 17:10:19 -0600 (Wed, 18 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  Py3k warnings now automatically include -Qwarn for division.
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  r69714 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2009-02-17 19:12:10 +0900 | 1 line

  Issue #5292: Fixed mmap crash on its boundary access m[len(m)].
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  r69718 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2009-02-17 22:17:26 +0900 | 3 lines

  Issue #5282: Fixed mmap resize on 32bit windows and unix. When offset > 0,
  The file was resized to wrong size.
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  r69724 | tarek.ziade | 2009-02-18 00:06:51 +0100 (Wed, 18 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  fixed the data_files inclusion behavior
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  r69710 | tarek.ziade | 2009-02-17 10:42:44 +0100 (Tue, 17 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  #2279 added the plain path case for data_files
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load failure in relation to reloads. Also expose
importlib.util.module_for_loader to handle all of the details of this along
with making sure all current loaders behave nicely.

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  r69700 | tarek.ziade | 2009-02-16 23:38:43 +0100 (Mon, 16 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  note about #2279
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  r69693 | tarek.ziade | 2009-02-16 22:41:54 +0100 (Mon, 16 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  #2279: use os.sep so the MANIFEST file test work on win32
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  r69692 | tarek.ziade | 2009-02-16 22:38:01 +0100 (Mon, 16 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  Fixed #2279: distutils.sdist.add_defaults now add files listed in package_data and data_files
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  r69688 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-16 15:07:52 -0600 (Mon, 16 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  fix compiler warnings
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  r69690 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-16 15:23:04 -0600 (Mon, 16 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  PyList_Append() can fail
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  r69685 | raymond.hettinger | 2009-02-16 14:39:12 -0600 (Mon, 16 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  Add GC support to count() objects.  Backport candidate.
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  r69666 | eric.smith | 2009-02-16 04:56:39 -0500 (Mon, 16 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  Added Ross Light to ACKS, for bug 4285 (r69331).
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contained non ascii character on windows.

sizeof(digit) < sizeof(int).

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  r69639 | mark.dickinson | 2009-02-15 15:48:39 +0000 (Sun, 15 Feb 2009) | 2 lines

  A few more minor fixed in longobject.c
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