we have a symlink somewhere in the TESTFN path.

   to have a full dictionary interface.

guarantee to keep valid pointers in its slots.

tests:  Moved ExtensionSaver from test_copy_reg into pickletester, and
use it both places.  Once extension codes get assigned, it won't be
safe to overwrite them willy nilly in test suites, and ExtensionSaver
does a thorough job of undoing any possible damage.

Beefed up the EXT[124] tests a bit, to check the smallest and largest
codes in each opcode's range too.

instead of raising a TypeError.  Closes #660144 (again).

Moved such EXT tests as currently exist from TempAbstractPickleTests to
AbstractPickleTests, so that test_cpickle runs them too.

subclasses. (Discussed in SF patch #665835)

by Michael Stone (mbrierst).

Python 2.1.4, 2.2.2 candidate.

signed/unsigned comparison warnings on the call to iconv().

Fix comment typos.

From SF patch #680146.

str and unicode subclasses not just for generating the output
but for testing too.

so we can jump to the error handling code that does.
(Spotted by Neal Norwitz)

blindly assumed that tp_as_sequence->sq_item always returns
a str or unicode object. This might fail with str or unicode
subclasses.

This patch checks whether the object returned from __getitem__
is a str/unicode object and raises a TypeError if not (and
the filter function returned true).

Furthermore the result for __getitem__ can be more than one
character long, so checks for enough memory have to be done.

providing the format info, only the raw data).
- Get rid of fsspecs.
- Make the demo program at least do something if img not available.

continuing to call these "time tuples" is misleading at best.
Closes SF bug #671731; will backport to 2.2.x.

generate these opcodes.

this clarifies that they are part of an internal API (albeit shared
between pickle.py, copy_reg.py and cPickle.c).

I'd like to do the same for copy_reg.dispatch_table, but worry that it
might be used by existing code.  This risk doesn't exist for the
extension registry.

Imported the extension-registry dicts from copy_reg.py, in preparation for
tackling EXT[124].

module. This increases code coverage of Python/sysmodule.c
from 68% to 77% (on Linux).

The script doesn't exercise the error branch that handles an evil
or lost sys.excepthook in Python/pythonrun.c::PyErr_PrintEx().

Also this script might not work on Jython in its current form.

From SF patch #662807.

all protocols, so tried them under all.

hardcoded list.

duplication.  Note that these still don't get run under cPickle.

because it seems more consistent with the rest of the code.

cPickle_PyMapping_HasKey():  This extern function isn't used anywhere in
Python or Zope, so got rid of it.

earlier than the ones in which they were introduced.

  extension implemented flush() was fixed.  Scott also rewrite the
  zlib test suite using the unittest module.  (SF bug #640230 and
  patch #678531.)

Backport candidate I think.