Note in the intro to Extending... that ctypes can be a simpler, more portable solution than custom C code.

(up to 3.1 times faster in tests), by special-casing base 10 in
_PyLong_Format.  (Backport of r74851 from py3k.)

This works by always setting it in __dict__, except when it's implicitly set in __init__.

non-Apple gcc4.3 and gcc4.4 (because CoreFoundation/CoreFoundation.h
won't compile under non-Apple gcc).

acquiring the import lock around fork() calls. This prevents other threads
from having that lock while the fork happens, and is the recommended way of
dealing with such issues. There are two other locks we care about, the GIL
and the Thread Local Storage lock. The GIL is obviously held when calling
Python functions like os.fork(), and the TLS lock is explicitly reallocated
instead, while also deleting now-orphaned TLS data.

This only fixes calls to os.fork(), not extension modules or embedding
programs calling C's fork() directly. Solving that requires a new set of API
functions, and possibly a rewrite of the Python/thread_*.c mess. Add a
warning explaining the problem to the documentation in the mean time.

This also changes behaviour a little on AIX. Before, AIX (but only AIX) was
getting the import lock reallocated, seemingly to avoid this very same
problem. This is not the right approach, because the import lock is a
re-entrant one, and reallocating would do the wrong thing when forking while
holding the import lock.

Will backport to 2.6, minus the tiny AIX behaviour change.

Make the pdb displayhook compatible with the standard displayhook: do not print Nones. Add a test for that.

to --with-universal-archs

and --with-universal-archs=3-way (issue6245)

Tk.framework and build _tkinter only for those
architectures.

This replaces the hardcoded solution that is no
longer valid now that 64-bit capable versions of
Tk are available on OSX.

Test discovery in unittest will only attempt to import modules that are importable; i.e. their names are valid Python identifiers. If an import fails during discovery this will be recorded as an error and test discovery will continue. Issue 6568.

Note that sys._getframe is not guaranteed to exist in all implementations of Python, and a corresponding note in inspect.currentframe. Issue 6712.

Objects that compare equal automatically pass or fail assertAlmostEqual and assertNotAlmostEqual tests on unittest.TestCase. Issue 6567.

a couple of whitespace issues.