any non-float non-integer argument is now converted to an integer (if
possible) using its __int__ method.  Previously, only small arguments
were treated this way; larger arguments (those whose __int__ was
outside the range of a C long) would produce a TypeError.

Patch by Alexander Belopolsky (with minor modifications).

in a Py_ssize_t, not an int.

string <-> float conversions;  this makes sure that the result of the round
operation is correctly rounded, and hence displays nicely using the new float
repr.

The argument was fetched in a long, but PyUnicode_FromOrdinal takes an int.

(why doesn't gcc issue a truncation warning in this case?)

Make bin() implementation parallel oct() and hex() so that int/long subclasses can override or so that other classes can support.

 Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
 only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
 can't be triggered from Python code.

 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/079988.html

Python 2.6 should stick with PyString_* in its codebase.  The PyBytes_* names
in the spirit of 3.0 are available via a #define only.  See the email thread.

renamed Include/bytesobject.h to Include/bytearrayobject.h
renamed Include/stringobject.h to Include/bytesobject.h
added Include/stringobject.h with aliases

compile() when compiling an AST node.

allow compiling Python AST objects into code objects
in compile().

Merged revisions 61750,61752,61754,61756,61760,61763,61768,61772,61775,61805,61809,61812,61819,61917,61920,61930,61933-61934 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/trunk-bytearray

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  r61750 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-22 20:47:44 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Copied files from py3k w/o modifications
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  r61752 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-22 20:53:20 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 7 lines

  Take One
  * Added initialization code, warnings, flags etc. to the appropriate places
  * Added new buffer interface to string type
  * Modified tests
  * Modified Makefile.pre.in to compile the new files
  * Added bytesobject.c to Python.h
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  r61754 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-22 21:22:19 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Disabled bytearray.extend for now since it causes an infinite recursion
  Fixed serveral unit tests
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  r61756 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-22 21:43:38 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 5 lines

  Added PyBytes support to several places:
  str + bytearray
  ord(bytearray)
  bytearray(str, encoding)
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  r61760 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-22 21:56:32 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Fixed more unit tests related to type('') is not unicode
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  r61763 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-22 22:20:28 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Fixed more unit tests
  Fixed bytearray.extend
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  r61768 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-22 22:40:50 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Implemented old buffer interface for bytearray
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  r61772 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-22 23:24:52 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Added backport of the io module
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  r61775 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-23 03:50:49 +0100 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Fix str assignement to bytearray. Assignment of a str of size 1 is interpreted as a single byte
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  r61805 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-23 19:33:48 +0100 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) | 3 lines

  Fixed more tests
  Fixed bytearray() comparsion with unicode()
  Fixed iterator assignment of bytearray
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  r61809 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-23 21:02:21 +0100 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  str(bytesarray()) now returns the bytes and not the representation of the bytearray object
  Enabled and fixed more unit tests
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  r61812 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-23 21:53:08 +0100 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) | 3 lines

  Clear error PyNumber_AsSsize_t() fails
  Use CHARMASK for ob_svall access
  disabled a test with memoryview again
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  r61819 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-23 23:05:57 +0100 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Untested updates to the PCBuild directory
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  r61917 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-26 00:57:06 +0100 (Wed, 26 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  The type system of Python 2.6 has subtle differences to 3.0's. I've removed the Py_TPFLAGS_BASETYPE flags from bytearray for now. bytearray can't be subclasses until the issues with bytearray subclasses are fixed.
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  r61920 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-26 01:44:08 +0100 (Wed, 26 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Disabled last failing test
  I don't understand what the test is testing and how it suppose to work. Ka-Ping, please check it out.
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  r61930 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-26 12:46:18 +0100 (Wed, 26 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Re-enabled bytes warning code
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  r61933 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-26 13:20:46 +0100 (Wed, 26 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Fixed a bug in the new buffer protocol. The buffer slots weren't copied into a subclass.
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  r61934 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-26 13:25:09 +0100 (Wed, 26 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Re-enabled bytearray subclassing - all tests are passing.
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EOL 80 limit and supply more alternatives in warning messages.

This work is substantially Anthony Baxter's, from issue
1633807.  I just freshened it, made a few minor tweaks,
and added the test cases.  I also created issue 2412,
which is to check for 2to3's behavior with the print
function.  I also added myself to ACKS.