the time module. time.clock_gettime(time.CLOCK_MONOTONIC) provides a monotonic
clock

 * Use str.startswith(tuple): I didn't know this Python feature, Python rocks!
 * Replace sometimes sys.platform.startswith('linux') with
   sys.platform == 'linux'
 * sys.platform doesn't contain the major version on Cygwin on Mac OS X
   (it's just 'cygwin' and 'darwin')

Use startswith, instead of ==, when testing sys.platform to support
new platforms like Linux 3 or OpenBSD 5.

Code extracted from Victor Stinner's patch for issue #12567.

always appended to the include directories regardless of whether it
was already in the list of directories. This could cause issue if
sqlite was installed in the same location as another install of
Python. Now a check is done to make sure the directory is not included
twice.

dpkg-architecture command is not found on $PATH.  This should fix the failures
on FreeBSD and Solaris, which do not create the target file via I/O
redirection if the command isn't found (unlike Linux and OS X which do).

extending search paths to include multiarch directories.

file-like objects using a new `fileobj` constructor argument.  Patch by
Nadeem Vawda.

#10679: install idle, pydoc, 2to3 scripts with X.Y suffix for make altinstall; create symlinks for make install.

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  r85645 | matthias.klose | 2010-10-17 15:22:33 +0200 (Sun, 17 Oct 2010) | 2 lines

  - Accept Oracle Berkeley DB 5.0 and 5.1 as backend for the dbm extension.
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include_dirs, so installed non-matching shared libraries don't break extension
module linking.  Fixes issue 10520.

close files.

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  r85744 | ronald.oussoren | 2010-10-20 15:10:12 +0200 (Wed, 20 Oct 2010) | 7 lines

  Fix for issue #7473.

  Without this patch you'll get link errors in some extensions
  (in particular the _curses_panel) one when you try to build
  a 3-way universal framework when you previously installed a
  2-way universal framework using the python.org installer.
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Without this patch you'll get link errors in some extensions
(in particular the _curses_panel) one when you try to build
a 3-way universal framework when you previously installed a
2-way universal framework using the python.org installer.

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  r74473 | guilherme.polo | 2009-08-16 16:44:14 +0200 (dim., 16 août 2009) | 13 lines

  Merged revisions 74471-74472 via svnmerge from
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    r74471 | guilherme.polo | 2009-08-16 11:34:26 -0300 (Sun, 16 Aug 2009) | 1 line

    Issue #6244: Allow detect_tkinter to look for Tcl/Tk 8.6.
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    r74472 | guilherme.polo | 2009-08-16 11:38:57 -0300 (Sun, 16 Aug 2009) | 1 line

    Wrong place for issue #6244.
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  Merged revisions 79903,79907 via svnmerge from
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    r79903 | martin.v.loewis | 2010-04-08 04:47:40 -0500 (Thu, 08 Apr 2010) | 2 lines

    Issue #8344: Fix test_ttk bug on FreeBSD.
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    r79907 | martin.v.loewis | 2010-04-08 12:38:32 -0500 (Thu, 08 Apr 2010) | 2 lines

    Issue #8204: Fix test_ttk notebook test by forcing focus.
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module.

Closes issue #9848. Thanks to Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis for the bug
report.

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  r84584 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-09-07 16:52:42 +0200 (mar., 07 sept. 2010) | 4 lines

  Issue #4026: Make the fcntl extension build under AIX.
  Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
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Patch by Sébastien Sablé.

os.path.dirname(__file__) points to the scrdir, not the builddir.
Use os.getcwd() instead.

at interpreter startup before importing any non-builtin modules.
Should fix #9589.

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  r83837 | thomas.heller | 2010-08-08 19:58:53 +0200 (So, 08 Aug 2010) | 3 lines

  Fix issue5504: ctypes does now work with systems where mmap can't be
  PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.
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  r83841 | thomas.heller | 2010-08-08 20:16:20 +0200 (So, 08 Aug 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix issue6869: refcount problem in the _ctypes extension.
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PROT_WRITE and PROT_EXEC.