Fix all remaining instances that did bad things with the new str.translate().

Ron Adam.

Added test case for using all parameters in string.Formatter.

Made format_spec parameter to builtin format optional, defaults to
empty string.  Added test cases.

Known issues:

The string.Formatter class, as discussed in the PEP, is incomplete.

Error handling needs to conform to the PEP.

Need to fix this warning that I introduced in Python/formatter_unicode.c:
Objects/stringlib/unicodedefs.h:26: warning: `STRINGLIB_CMP' defined but not used

Need to make sure sign formatting is correct, more tests needed.

Need to remove '()' sign formatting, left over from an earlier version of the PEP.

 * all calls to functions in the string module (except maketrans)
 * everything from stropmodule except for maketrans() which is still used

(Rough first cut.)

(a) "except E, V" -> "except E as V"
(b) V is now limited to a simple name (local variable)
(c) V is now deleted at the end of the except block

[ 1327110 ] wrong TypeError traceback in generator expressions

by removing the code that can stomp on the users' TypeError raised by the
iterable argument to ''.join() -- PySequence_Fast (now?) gives a perfectly
reasonable message itself.  Also, a couple of tests.

it can be used for str and unicode. Drop the test for
   "".join([s]) is s
because this is an implementation detail (and doesn't work for unicode)

(Patch contributed by Nick Coghlan.)

Now joining string subtypes will always return a string.
Formerly, if there were only one item, it was returned unchanged.

and test_support.run_classtests() into run_unittest()
and use it wherever possible.

Also don't use "from test.test_support import ...", but
"from test import test_support" in a few spots.

From SF patch #662807.

between str, unicode, UserString and the string module
as possible. This increases code coverage in stringobject.c
from 83% to 86% and should help keep the string classes
in sync in the future. From SF patch #662807

Python 2.2.x backport candidate. (This bug has been around since
Python 1.6.)

Closes SF Bug #592573 where inplace add mutated a UserString.
Added unittests to verify the bug is cleared.

string of longer than 1 character.

imports e.g. test_support must do so using an absolute package name
such as "import test.test_support" or "from test import test_support".

This also updates the README in Lib/test, and gets rid of the
duplicate data dirctory in Lib/test/data (replaced by
Lib/email/test/data).

Now Tim and Jack can have at it. :)

If a str or unicode method returns the original object,
make sure that for str and unicode subclasses the original
will not be returned.

This should prevent SF bug http://www.python.org/sf/460020
from reappearing.

module and from string methods.

This closes patch "[ #490811 ] Jython and test_string".

'verify' iff it's used by a test module...

and replaces them with a new API verify(). As a result the regression
suite will also perform its tests in optimization mode.

Written by Marc-Andre Lemburg. Copyright assigned to Guido van Rossum.

to signify a test that should be marked as 'skipped' rather than 'failed'.
Also 'document' it, in README.

test_string and test_userstring run same tests for string methods

Modified .splitlines() tests according to the changes
in stringobject.c.

    Attached you find an update of the Unicode implementation.

    The patch is against the current CVS version. I would appreciate
    if someone with CVS checkin permissions could check the changes
    in.

    The patch contains all bugs and patches sent this week and also
    fixes a leak in the codecs code and a bug in the free list code
    for Unicode objects (which only shows up when compiling Python
    with Py_DEBUG; thanks to MarkH for spotting this one).

Also added a short circuit for the regression test suite since CVS
insisted on putting this file in the main branch. :(

in the string module.

Add a bunch of new tests for extended startswith/endswith arguments.