rewrite float.fromhex to only allow ASCII hex digits on all platforms.
(Tests for this are already present, but the test_float failures
on Solaris hadn't been noticed before.)

Reviewed by Antoine Pitrou.

change is aimed at diagnosing issue 3633 (test_float fails on Solaris).

Reviewed by Benjamin Peterson

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/sandbox/trunk/2to3/lib2to3

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  r65876 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-08-19 15:54:52 -0500 (Tue, 19 Aug 2008) | 1 line

  apply a fix I think will help Windows
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Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core.

that are COM methods must have a boolean True value.

issue3352: clean up the multiprocessing API to remove many get_/set_ methods and convert them to properties. Update the docs and the examples included.

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/sandbox/trunk/2to3/lib2to3

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  r65853 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-08-19 11:09:09 -0500 (Tue, 19 Aug 2008) | 1 line

  apply a patch for #3131. this solves the problem for the moment, but we should do some refactoring to get display logic out of RefactoringTool
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  r65854 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-08-19 11:37:38 -0500 (Tue, 19 Aug 2008) | 1 line

  another quick fix to get lib2to3 to work
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they will still live in 3.0 but it can't hurt

Be less strict when parsing these version numbers,
they don't necessarily follow the python numbering scheme.

This is new in 2.6 so now need to worry about backwards compatibility :)

Optimization of str.format() for cases with str, unicode, int, long,
and float arguments.  This gives about 30% speed improvement for the
simplest (but most common) cases.  This patch skips the __format__
dispatch, and also avoids creating an object to hold the format_spec.

Unfortunately there's a complication in 2.6 with int, long, and float
because they always expect str format_specs.  So in the unicode
version of this optimization, just check for unicode objects.  int,
float, long, and str can be added later, if needed.