importing encoded modules that do not depend on specific stdlib
modules being encoded in a certain way.

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r78351 | r.david.murray | 2010-02-22 19:24:49 -0500 (Mon, 22 Feb 2010) | 5 lines

  Issue 6292: for the moment at least, the test suite passes if run
  with -OO.  Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.  Patch by
  Brian Curtin, thanks to Matias Torchinsky for helping review and
  improve the patch.
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with -OO.  Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.  Patch by
Brian Curtin, thanks to Matias Torchinsky for helping review and
improve the patch.

We still have 27 failing tests (down from 39).

non-ascii characters.

imports of test modules now import from the test package.  Other
related oddities are also fixed (like DeprecationWarning filters that
weren't specifying the full import part, etc.).  Also did a general
code cleanup to remove all "from test.test_support import *"'s.  Other
from...import *'s weren't changed.

imports e.g. test_support must do so using an absolute package name
such as "import test.test_support" or "from test import test_support".

This also updates the README in Lib/test, and gets rid of the
duplicate data dirctory in Lib/test/data (replaced by
Lib/email/test/data).

Now Tim and Jack can have at it. :)

For a dynamically constructed type object, fill in the tp_doc slot with
a copy of the argument dict's "__doc__" value, provided the latter exists
and is a string.
NOTE:  I don't know what to do if it's a Unicode string, so in that case
tp_doc is left NULL (which shows up as Py_None if you do Class.__doc__).
Note that tp_doc holds a char*, not a general PyObject*.

Taught doctest about static methods, class methods, and property docstrings
in new-style classes.  As for inspect.py/pydoc.py before it, the new stuff
needed didn't really fit into the old architecture (but was less of a
strain to force-fit here).
New-style class docstrings still aren't found, but that's the subject
of a different bug and I want to fix that right instead of hacking around
it in doctest.