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.

a regular check and return an error if not unicode.

Verify that they print properly too.

at least for .keys() and .items() (not .values() of course).

Use self.assertTrue in test cases rather than the assert statement.

this would be nice.  I'm a little rusty.)

 Normalize raise statements in Lib/xml/.

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r57227 | facundo.batista | 2007-08-20 17:16:21 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 5 lines


  Catch ProtocolError exceptions and include the header information in
  test output (to make it easier to debug test failures caused by
  problems in the server). [GSoC - Alan McIntyre]
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  r57229 | mark.hammond | 2007-08-20 18:04:47 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 5 lines

  [ 1761786 ] distutils.util.get_platform() return value on 64bit Windows
  As discussed on distutils-sig: Allows the generated installer name on
  64bit Windows platforms to be different than the name generated for
  32bit Windows platforms.
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  r57230 | mark.hammond | 2007-08-20 18:05:16 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 5 lines

  [ 1761786 ] distutils.util.get_platform() return value on 64bit Windows
  As discussed on distutils-sig: Allows the generated installer name on
  64bit Windows platforms to be different than the name generated for
  32bit Windows platforms.
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  r57253 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-20 23:01:18 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Demand version 2.5.1 since 2.5 has a bug with codecs.open context managers.
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  r57254 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-20 23:03:43 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Revert accidental checkins from last commit.
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  r57255 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-20 23:07:08 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1777160: mention explicitly that e.g. -1**2 is -1.
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  r57256 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-20 23:12:19 -0700 (Mon, 20 Aug 2007) | 3 lines

  Bug #1777168: replace operator names "opa"... with "op1"... and mark everything up as literal,
  to enhance readability.
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  r57259 | facundo.batista | 2007-08-21 09:57:18 -0700 (Tue, 21 Aug 2007) | 8 lines


  Added test for behavior of operations on an unconnected SMTP object,
  and tests for NOOP, RSET, and VRFY. Corrected typo in a comment for
  testNonnumericPort. Added a check for constructing SMTP objects when
  non-numeric ports are included in the host name. Derived a server from
  SMTPServer to test various ESMTP/SMTP capabilities. Check that a
  second HELO to DebuggingServer returns an error. [GSoC - Alan McIntyre]
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  r57279 | skip.montanaro | 2007-08-22 12:02:16 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Note that BeOS is unsupported as of Python 2.6.
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  r57280 | skip.montanaro | 2007-08-22 12:05:21 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 1 line

  whoops - need to check in configure as well
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  r57284 | alex.martelli | 2007-08-22 14:14:17 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 5 lines

  Fix compile.c so that it records 0.0 and -0.0 as separate constants in a code
  object's co_consts tuple; add a test to show that the previous behavior (where
  these two constants were "collapsed" into one) causes serious malfunctioning.
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  r57286 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-08-22 14:32:34 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 3 lines

  stop leaving log.0000001 __db.00* and xxx.db turds in developer
  sandboxes when bsddb3 tests are run.
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  r57301 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2007-08-22 16:14:27 -0700 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007) | 3 lines

  When setup.py fails to find the necessary bits to build some modules, have it
  print a slightly more informative message.
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  r57320 | brett.cannon | 2007-08-23 07:53:17 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Make test_runpy re-entrant.
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  r57324 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 10:54:11 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1768121: fix wrong/missing opcode docs.
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  r57326 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 10:57:05 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1766421: "return code" vs. "status code".
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  r57328 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 11:08:06 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Second half of #1752175: #ifdef out references to PyImport_DynLoadFiletab if HAVE_DYNAMIC_LOADING is not defined.
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  r57331 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 11:11:33 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Use try-except-finally in contextlib.
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  r57343 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:35:00 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1697820: document that the old slice protocol is still used by builtin types.
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  r57345 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:40:01 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1573854: fix docs for sqlite3 cursor rowcount attr.
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  r57347 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:50:23 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1694833: fix imp.find_module() docs wrt. packages.
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  r57348 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:53:28 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1594966: fix misleading usage example
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  r57349 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 13:55:44 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Clarify wording a bit.
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  r57351 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:18:44 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1752332: httplib no longer uses socket.getaddrinfo().
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  r57352 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:21:36 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1734111: document struct.Struct.size.
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  r57353 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:27:57 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1688564: document os.path.join's absolute path behavior in the docstring.
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  r57354 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:36:05 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1625381: clarify match vs search introduction.
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  r57355 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:42:54 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1758696: more info about descriptors.
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  r57357 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 14:55:57 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Patch #1779550: remove redundant code in logging.
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  r57378 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-08-23 22:11:38 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix bug 1725856.
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  r57382 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-23 23:10:01 -0700 (Thu, 23 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  uuid creation is now threadsafe, backport from py3k rev. 57375.
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  r57389 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-24 04:47:37 -0700 (Fri, 24 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1765375: fix stripping of unwanted LDFLAGS.
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  r57391 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-08-24 07:53:14 -0700 (Fri, 24 Aug 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix silly typo in test name.
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Also, this now leaks a bit -- that's for tomorrow's sprint day.

so the overflow test no longer matters.