Issue #1580: New free format floating point representation based on "Floating-Point Printer Sample Code", by Robert G. Burger. For example repr(11./5) now returns '2.2' instead of '2.2000000000000002'.

Thanks to noam for the patch! I had to modify doubledigits.c slightly to support X64 and IA64 machines on Windows. I also added the new file to the three project files.

Reported by Mark Summerfield.

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  r59442 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-09 22:15:07 +0100 (Sun, 09 Dec 2007) | 5 lines

  Two fixes in DocXMLRPCServer:
  * remove parameter default that didn't make sense
  * properly escape values in output
  Thanks to Jeff Wheeler from GHOP!
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  r59444 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-09 23:38:26 +0100 (Sun, 09 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Add Jeff Wheeler.
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  r59445 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-09 23:39:12 +0100 (Sun, 09 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Add DocXMLRPCServer test from GHOP task #136, written by Jeff Wheeler.
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  r59447 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-10 16:12:41 +0100 (Mon, 10 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Added wide char api variants of getch and putch to msvcrt module. The wide char methods are required to fix #1578 in py3k. I figured out that they might be useful in 2.6, too.
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  r59448 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-10 16:39:09 +0100 (Mon, 10 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Stupid save all didn't safe it all ...
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I moved the unicode_eq to stringlib/eq.h to keep the function static and possible inline for setobject.c and dictobject.h. I also removed the unused _PyString_Eq method. If it's required in the future it can be added to eq.h

"def f(*, **kw)" now raises a SyntaxError.

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  r59427 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-08 18:56:07 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Adapt style.
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  r59435 | brett.cannon | 2007-12-09 06:09:37 +0100 (Sun, 09 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Use a versionchanged directive.
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  r59436 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-09 09:54:02 +0100 (Sun, 09 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  #1575: the Mac readme is now one level up.
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  r59437 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-09 09:59:45 +0100 (Sun, 09 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Remove all tabs in that file.
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>>> def f(*, **kw):
...   pass
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python: Python/ast.c:652: handle_keywordonly_args: Assertion 'kwonlyargs
!= ((void *)0)' failed.

'Applying PyMethod_Type to 3 arguments crashes Python 3'

Before the change help(open) didn't return anything helpful but the doc string of io.OpenWrapper. Now it shows the user the documentation of io.open.

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  r59407 | armin.rigo | 2007-12-07 20:19:55 +0100 (Fri, 07 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  This is probably what was meant here.
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  r59410 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-12-08 05:38:23 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Be (just a bit :) more specific about release date.
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  r59411 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2007-12-08 05:49:22 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 3 lines

  Fix issue #1530.
  Return an error exit status if not all tests passes.
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  r59413 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-08 11:56:39 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix tpyo.
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  r59414 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-08 12:05:05 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix markup in whatsnew, use new directive in ACKS.
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  r59415 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-08 12:05:36 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix Eren's name.
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  r59416 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-08 12:23:13 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Add examples to the datetime documentation. Written for GHOP by "h4wk.cz".
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  r59417 | skip.montanaro | 2007-12-08 15:37:43 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Note that open() is the preferred way to open files (issue 1510).
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  r59418 | skip.montanaro | 2007-12-08 16:23:31 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  + "context manager"
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  r59419 | skip.montanaro | 2007-12-08 16:26:16 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  correct email address
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  r59420 | skip.montanaro | 2007-12-08 16:33:24 +0100 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) | 3 lines

  When splitting, avoid making a copy of the string if the split doesn't find
  anything (issue 1538).
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It prevents the XML RPC tests from blocking until the end of the world.
I think it's a backport candidate and other modules may benefit from the feature, too.

Somehow it went missing during the merge

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  r59377 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-06 01:24:23 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Add another GHOP student to ACKS.
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  r59378 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-06 01:56:53 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 5 lines

  Fix Issue 1045.
  Factor-out common calling code by simplifying the length_hint API.
  Speed-up the function by caching the PyObject_String for the attribute lookup.
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  r59380 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-06 02:52:24 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Diverse markup fixes.
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  r59383 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-06 10:45:39 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Better re.split examples.
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  r59386 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-06 14:15:13 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Fixed get_config_h_filename for Windows. Without the patch it can't find the pyconfig.h file inside a build tree.
  Added several small unit tests for sysconfig.
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  r59387 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-06 14:30:11 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Silence more warnings, _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE is already defined in pyconfig.h but several projects don't include it.
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  r59389 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-06 14:55:01 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Disabled one test that is failing on Unix
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  r59399 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-06 22:13:06 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 8 lines

  Several Windows related cleanups:
  * Removed a #define from pyconfig.h. The macro was already defined a few lines higher.
  * Fixed path to tix in the build_tkinter.py script
  * Changed make_buildinfo.c to use versions of unlink and strcat which are considered safe by Windows (as suggested by MvL).
  * Removed two defines from pyproject.vsprops that are no longer required. Both are defined in pyconfig.h and make_buildinfo.c doesn't use the unsafe versions any more (as suggested by MvL).
  * Added some more information about PGO and the property files to PCbuild9/readme.txt.

  Are you fine with the changes, Martin?
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  r59400 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-07 02:53:01 +0100 (Fri, 07 Dec 2007) | 4 lines

  Don't have the docs berate themselves.  Keep a professional tone.
  If a todo is needed, put it in the tracker.
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  r59402 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-07 10:07:10 +0100 (Fri, 07 Dec 2007) | 3 lines

  Increase unit test coverage of SimpleXMLRPCServer.
  Written for GHOP by Turkay Eren.
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  r59406 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-07 16:16:57 +0100 (Fri, 07 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Update to windows doc from Robert.
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(a) added GC support to the PySSL object
(b) move the call to _real_close() from __del__ methods in Python to
PySSL_dealloc().
(c) remove those __del__ methods -- this makes SSL and socket objects GC'able.

Silence more warnings, _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE is already defined in pyconfig.h but several projects don't include it.

(Next: update the whatsnew docs.)

line buffering.  The TextIOWrapper class no longer calls isatty() on
every write() call.

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  r59374 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-05 22:52:40 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Add Ross Light, a GHOP student, to ACKs.
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  r59375 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-05 22:57:25 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  The macros _WIN32, _WIN64 and _M_X64 are defined by the compiler. The VS 2008 IDE doesn't know about (some) of the macros and can display wrong information. In my case a section #ifdef _WIN64 was grayed out although the platform was x64. I've added the macros to pyproject.vsprops and x64.vsprops.
  I've also added a paragraph about the property files to the readme and fixed the order of pyupdate > pyinstrument.
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  r59343 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-05 08:02:47 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix typo.
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  r59347 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-05 13:31:44 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Fixed quoting and paths in the sqlite project file
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  r59348 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-05 13:45:11 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Fixed error in regrtest. I must have missed the spot.
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  r59350 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-05 13:49:14 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  merge -r59315:59316 from py3k: Fix issue #1553: An errornous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a SystemError
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  r59352 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-05 13:52:34 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Added msg to Misc/NEWS
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  r59354 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-12-05 14:27:20 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Spelling fix
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  r59356 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-05 18:56:50 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 3 lines

  Add examples to csv, pprint and traceback docs.
  Written by Ross for GHOP.
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  r59358 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-05 19:11:08 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Error checking was too aggressive (reported by Chris Tismer)
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  r59359 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-05 19:30:48 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Add examples to re docs. Written for GHOP by Dan Finnie.
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  r59366 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-05 20:49:21 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix markup.
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  r59367 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-05 20:57:54 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Updated documentation and build_tkinter.py script
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  r59368 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-05 21:03:57 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Another markup fix.
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  r59369 | ronald.oussoren | 2007-12-05 21:07:36 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 7 lines

  This "fixes" compilation issues for the Carbon._OSA module on OSX Leopard
  by purging bindings to OSA's debug API's. Those APIs we're completely
  unsupported on OSX 10.4 and are no longer available on OSX 10.5.

  Note that this patches a generated file. This is somewhat acceptable because
  regenerating the file is non-trivial and wouldn't use system headers anyway.
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  r59370 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-05 21:10:38 +0100 (Wed, 05 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Fixed bug #1557 by using popen.communicate() before popen.wait()
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