#1569291: speed up array.repeat() by making only O(log n) memcpy() calls; the code follows unicode_repeat.

Add an "optimize" parameter to compile() to control the optimization level, and provide an interface to it in py_compile, compileall and PyZipFile.

points. (Windows)

- Set S_IEXEC via final path name not link name.
- Set S_IFLNK also via FindFirstFile (when CreateFile fails)

not passed to subprocess.Popen as the default value will be changing in a
future Python to the safer and more often desired value of True.

DeprecationWarnings that show up in a lot of existing code are controversial
and have caused pain in the past.  I'd like to leave this on for 3.2 beta1 and
see how things go.  We can remove the warning if it is deemed too noisy during
any betas.  (case study: the md5 and sha module DeprecationWarnings are loathed
around the world as those modules were never going to be removed in 2.x and
2to3 has a fixer for code that uses them)

types.  Added a new API function, PyUnicode_TransformDecimalToASCII(),
which transforms non-ASCII decimal digits in a Unicode string to their
ASCII equivalents.

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

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  r85551 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-10-15 23:57:29 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  escape() is now in the html module
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  r86156 | georg.brandl | 2010-11-04 09:34:57 +0100 (Do, 04 Nov 2010) | 1 line

  Consistency fixes in option parser help texts.
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  r86157 | georg.brandl | 2010-11-04 09:35:30 +0100 (Do, 04 Nov 2010) | 1 line

  #10286: fix urllib class names.
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  r86464 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-11-14 16:28:52 +0100 (So, 14 Nov 2010) | 1 line

  match only .py files #10416
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Will add gone in 3.3 test later.

SSLError on socket timeouts.

argparse (#10528).

There is no unit test; I checked with xgettext that no more warnings
were emitted.  Steven approved the change.

Steven, the maintainer of argparse, agreed to have this committed
without tests for now, since the fix is obvious.  See the bug log.

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way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
current process.

(instead of PyArg_Parse*() with "es" format and Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding)

Issue 2690: Add support for slicing and negative indices to range objects (includes precalculation and storage of the range length).

Refer to the tracker issue for the language moratorium implications of this change