I hope the concept of hashability is better understandable now.
Thanks to Tim Hatch for pointing out the flaws here.

--with-system-ffi configure option defaults to "yes" because the
bundled libffi sources are too old.

a problem introduced by 58385.

have NULL bytes in them.  Replace the errant strdup with a
malloc+memcpy.  Adds a unit test for the correct behavior.

Backport of import tests for bug http://bugs.python.org/issue1293 and bug http://bugs.python.org/issue1342

Patch 1612746

M    configDialog.py
M    NEWS.txt
AM   tabbedpages.py

also hex escapes) -- this was reaching beyond the end of the input string
buffer, even though it is not supposed to be \0-terminated.
This has no visible effect but is clearly the correct thing to do.
(In 3.0 it had a visible effect after removing ob_sstate from PyString.)

Add mp4 mapping to mimetypes.py.

- Regenerate IN module for most recent maintenance tree of FreeBSD 6 and 7.

2. Refactor to use more descriptive names.
3. Enhance tests in main().

now idempotent.

See issue 1324.

in response that keeped having a non-ascii character.