the string type.  It will always return a Unicode string.  The algoritm's
specification is unchanged.

in binary mode and comparing the content to strings,
which failed. Now the bytes get decoded into unicode
using latin-1 (the comparison compares ASCII strings
only anyway, and we don't want the decoding to fail).

(executable, prefix and exec_prefix are still str8).

In some cases we use the more neutral term string; in others we are explicit.

Fix string_tests.py::MixinStrUnicodeTest.test_bug1001011():
Test str and str8.

Make registeration of str dispatcher unconditional.

so that read() returns a unicode object, which can be
compared directly to the repr() result.

io.open() now takes all positional parameters (so we can conveniently
call it from C code).

test_tarfile.py no longer uses u"..." literals, but is otherwise still
badly broken.

This is a checkpoint; some more stuff now breaks.

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/p3yk

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  r55636 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-29 00:06:39 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 149 lines

  Merged revisions 55506-55635 via svnmerge from
  svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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    r55507 | georg.brandl | 2007-05-22 07:28:17 -0700 (Tue, 22 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Remove the "panel" module doc file which has been ignored since 1994.
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    r55522 | mark.hammond | 2007-05-22 19:04:28 -0700 (Tue, 22 May 2007) | 4 lines

    Remove definition of PY_UNICODE_TYPE from pyconfig.h, allowing the
    definition in unicodeobject.h to be used, giving us the desired
    wchar_t in place of 'unsigned short'.  As discussed on python-dev.
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    r55525 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-22 23:35:32 -0700 (Tue, 22 May 2007) | 6 lines

    Add -3 option to the interpreter to warn about features that are
    deprecated and will be changed/removed in Python 3.0.

    This patch is mostly from Anthony.  I tweaked some format and added
    a little doc.
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    r55527 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-22 23:57:35 -0700 (Tue, 22 May 2007) | 1 line

    Whitespace cleanup
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    r55528 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-22 23:58:36 -0700 (Tue, 22 May 2007) | 1 line

    Add a bunch more deprecation warnings for builtins that are going away in 3.0
  ........
    r55549 | georg.brandl | 2007-05-24 09:49:29 -0700 (Thu, 24 May 2007) | 2 lines

    shlex.split() now has an optional "posix" parameter.
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    r55550 | georg.brandl | 2007-05-24 10:33:33 -0700 (Thu, 24 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Fix parameter passing.
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    r55555 | facundo.batista | 2007-05-24 10:50:54 -0700 (Thu, 24 May 2007) | 6 lines


    Added an optional timeout parameter to urllib.ftpwrapper, with tests
    (for this and a basic one, because there weren't any). Changed also
    NEWS, but didn't find documentation for this function, assumed it
    wasn't public...
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    r55563 | facundo.batista | 2007-05-24 13:01:59 -0700 (Thu, 24 May 2007) | 4 lines


    Removed the .recv() in the test, is not necessary, and was
    causing problems that didn't have anything to do with was
    actually being tested...
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    r55564 | facundo.batista | 2007-05-24 13:51:19 -0700 (Thu, 24 May 2007) | 5 lines


    Let's see if reading exactly what is written allow this live
    test to pass (now I know why there were so few tests in ftp,
    http, etc, :( ).
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    r55567 | facundo.batista | 2007-05-24 20:10:28 -0700 (Thu, 24 May 2007) | 4 lines


    Trying to make the tests work in Windows and Solaris, everywhere
    else just works
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    r55568 | facundo.batista | 2007-05-24 20:47:19 -0700 (Thu, 24 May 2007) | 4 lines


    Fixing stupid error, and introducing a sleep, to see if the
    other thread is awakened and finish sending data.
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    r55569 | facundo.batista | 2007-05-24 21:20:22 -0700 (Thu, 24 May 2007) | 4 lines


    Commenting out the tests until find out who can test them in
    one of the problematic enviroments.
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    r55570 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-24 22:13:40 -0700 (Thu, 24 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Get test passing again by commenting out the reference to the test class.
  ........
    r55575 | vinay.sajip | 2007-05-25 00:05:59 -0700 (Fri, 25 May 2007) | 1 line

    Updated docstring for SysLogHandler (#1720726).
  ........
    r55576 | vinay.sajip | 2007-05-25 00:06:55 -0700 (Fri, 25 May 2007) | 1 line

    Updated documentation for SysLogHandler (#1720726).
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    r55592 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-25 13:17:15 -0700 (Fri, 25 May 2007) | 3 lines

    Remove direct call's to file's constructor and replace them with calls to
    open() as ths is considered best practice.
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    r55601 | kristjan.jonsson | 2007-05-26 12:19:50 -0700 (Sat, 26 May 2007) | 1 line

    Remove the rgbimgmodule from PCBuild8
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    r55602 | kristjan.jonsson | 2007-05-26 12:31:39 -0700 (Sat, 26 May 2007) | 1 line

    Include <windows.h> after python.h, so that WINNT is properly set before windows.h is included.  Fixes warnings in PC builds.
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    r55603 | walter.doerwald | 2007-05-26 14:04:13 -0700 (Sat, 26 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Fix typo.
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    r55604 | peter.astrand | 2007-05-26 15:18:20 -0700 (Sat, 26 May 2007) | 1 line

    Applied patch 1669481, slightly modified: Support close_fds on Win32
  ........
    r55606 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-26 21:08:54 -0700 (Sat, 26 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Add the new function object attribute names from py3k.
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    r55617 | lars.gustaebel | 2007-05-27 12:49:30 -0700 (Sun, 27 May 2007) | 20 lines

    Added errors argument to TarFile class that allows the user to
    specify an error handling scheme for character conversion. Additional
    scheme "utf-8" in read mode. Unicode input filenames are now
    supported by design. The values of the pax_headers dictionary are now
    limited to unicode objects.

    Fixed: The prefix field is no longer used in PAX_FORMAT (in
    conformance with POSIX).
    Fixed: In read mode use a possible pax header size field.
    Fixed: Strip trailing slashes from pax header name values.
    Fixed: Give values in user-specified pax_headers precedence when
    writing.

    Added unicode tests. Added pax/regtype4 member to testtar.tar all
    possible number fields in a pax header.

    Added two chapters to the documentation about the different formats
    tarfile.py supports and how unicode issues are handled.
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    r55618 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-05-27 22:23:22 -0700 (Sun, 27 May 2007) | 1 line

    Explain when groupby() issues a new group.
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    r55634 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-05-28 21:01:29 -0700 (Mon, 28 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Test pre-commit hook for a link to a .py file.
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    r55635 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-05-28 21:02:03 -0700 (Mon, 28 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Revert 55634.
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  r55639 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-29 00:58:11 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 1 line

  Remove sys.exc_{type,exc_value,exc_traceback}
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  r55641 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-29 01:03:50 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 1 line

  Missed one sys.exc_type.  I wonder why exc_{value,traceback} were already gone
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  r55642 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-29 01:08:33 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 1 line

  Missed more doc for sys.exc_* attrs.
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  r55643 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-29 01:18:19 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 1 line

  Remove sys.exc_clear()
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  r55665 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-05-29 19:45:43 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 4 lines

  Make None, True, False keywords.
  We can now also delete all the other places that explicitly forbid
  assignment to None, but I'm not going to bother right now.
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  r55666 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-05-29 20:01:51 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 3 lines

  Found another place that needs check for forbidden names.
  Fixed test_syntax.py accordingly (it helped me find that one).
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  r55668 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-05-29 20:41:48 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 2 lines

  Mark None, True, False as keywords.
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  r55673 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-29 23:28:25 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 3 lines

  Get the dis module working on modules again after changing dicts
  to not return lists and also new-style classes.  Add a test.
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  r55674 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-29 23:35:45 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 1 line

  Umm, it helps to add the module that the test uses
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  r55675 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-29 23:53:05 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 4 lines

  Try to fix up all the other places that were assigning to True/False.
  There's at least one more problem in test.test_xmlrpc.  I have other
  changes in that file and that should be fixed soon (I hope).
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  r55679 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-30 00:31:55 -0700 (Wed, 30 May 2007) | 1 line

  Fix up another place that was assigning to True/False.
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  r55688 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-30 14:19:47 -0700 (Wed, 30 May 2007) | 2 lines

  Ditch MimeWriter.
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  r55692 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-30 14:52:00 -0700 (Wed, 30 May 2007) | 2 lines

  Remove the mimify module.
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  r55707 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-05-31 05:08:45 -0700 (Thu, 31 May 2007) | 2 lines

  Backport the addition of show_code() to dis.py -- it's too handy.
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  r55708 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-05-31 06:22:57 -0700 (Thu, 31 May 2007) | 7 lines

  Fix a fairly long-standing bug in the check for assignment to None (and other
  keywords, these days).  In 2.5, you could write foo(None=1) without getting
  a SyntaxError (although foo()'s definition would have to use **kwds to avoid
  getting a runtime error complaining about an unknown keyword of course).

  This ought to be backported to 2.5.2 or at least 2.6.
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  r55724 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-31 19:32:41 -0700 (Thu, 31 May 2007) | 2 lines

  Remove the cfmfile.
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  r55727 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-31 22:19:44 -0700 (Thu, 31 May 2007) | 1 line

  Remove reload() builtin.
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  r55729 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-31 22:51:30 -0700 (Thu, 31 May 2007) | 59 lines

  Merged revisions 55636-55728 via svnmerge from
  svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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    r55637 | georg.brandl | 2007-05-29 00:16:47 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Fix rst markup.
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    r55638 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-29 00:51:39 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 1 line

    Fix typo in doc
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    r55671 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-29 21:53:41 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 1 line

    Fix indentation (whitespace only).
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    r55676 | thomas.heller | 2007-05-29 23:58:30 -0700 (Tue, 29 May 2007) | 1 line

    Fix compiler warnings.
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    r55677 | thomas.heller | 2007-05-30 00:01:25 -0700 (Wed, 30 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Correct the name of a field in the WIN32_FIND_DATAA and WIN32_FIND_DATAW structures.
    Closes bug #1726026.
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    r55686 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-30 13:46:26 -0700 (Wed, 30 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Have MimeWriter raise a DeprecationWarning as per PEP 4 and its documentation.
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    r55690 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-30 14:48:58 -0700 (Wed, 30 May 2007) | 3 lines

    Have mimify raise a DeprecationWarning.  The docs and PEP 4 have listed the
    module as deprecated for a while.
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    r55696 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-30 15:24:28 -0700 (Wed, 30 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Have md5 raise a DeprecationWarning as per PEP 4.
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    r55705 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-30 21:14:22 -0700 (Wed, 30 May 2007) | 1 line

    Add some spaces in the example code.
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    r55716 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-31 12:20:00 -0700 (Thu, 31 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Have the sha module raise a DeprecationWarning as specified in PEP 4.
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    r55719 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-31 12:40:42 -0700 (Thu, 31 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Cause buildtools to raise a DeprecationWarning.
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    r55721 | brett.cannon | 2007-05-31 13:01:11 -0700 (Thu, 31 May 2007) | 2 lines

    Have cfmfile raise a DeprecationWarning as per PEP 4.
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    r55726 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-31 21:56:47 -0700 (Thu, 31 May 2007) | 1 line

    Mail if there is an installation failure.
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  r55730 | neal.norwitz | 2007-05-31 23:22:07 -0700 (Thu, 31 May 2007) | 2 lines

  Remove the code that was missed in rev 55303.
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  r55738 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-01 19:10:43 -0700 (Fri, 01 Jun 2007) | 1 line

  Fix doc breakage
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  r55741 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-02 00:41:58 -0700 (Sat, 02 Jun 2007) | 1 line

  Remove timing module (plus some remnants of other modules).
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  r55742 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-02 00:51:44 -0700 (Sat, 02 Jun 2007) | 1 line

  Remove posixfile module (plus some remnants of other modules).
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  r55744 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-02 10:18:56 -0700 (Sat, 02 Jun 2007) | 1 line

  Fix doc breakage.
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  r55745 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-02 11:32:16 -0700 (Sat, 02 Jun 2007) | 1 line

  Make a whatsnew 3.0 template.
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  r55754 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-03 23:24:18 -0700 (Sun, 03 Jun 2007) | 1 line

  SF #1730441, os._execvpe raises UnboundLocal due to new try/except semantics
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  r55755 | neal.norwitz | 2007-06-03 23:26:00 -0700 (Sun, 03 Jun 2007) | 1 line

  Get rid of extra whitespace
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  r55794 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-06-06 15:29:22 -0700 (Wed, 06 Jun 2007) | 3 lines

  Make this compile in GCC 2.96, which does not allow interspersing
  declarations and code.
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mode is specified.

(The filename gets written in utf-8 encoded form which probably
isn't correct.)

Fix the test.

Add a test to test_fileio.py for this.

interned too. Add a test for this.

to return unicode strings.

for chr()/chr8(). Fix function name in PyArg_ParseTuple()
call.

zipimporter_repr().

decomposition() and name() to return unicode strings.

directly instead of PyOS_snprintf()+PyErr_SetString().

directly. Add a test that calls socket_repr().

for formatting the unicode decoding/encoding/translating
exception messages.

Use PyMem_Malloc() to allocate temporary storage.

date.ctime() and datetime.ctime() return unicode now).

unicode objects.

format specifiers in PyUnicode_FromFormat().

Change unicode's tp_str implementation to return a unicode object.

(everything besides the actual code disassembly).