(backport from rev. 53787)

 (backport from rev. 53785)

 (backport from rev. 53783)

when considering whether to rerun libffi configure.

Fixes #847665.

at position 0. (backport from rev. 53752)

 (backport from rev. 53697)

lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.

Applied patch 1124861.3.patch to solve bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes on Windows, if GetStdHandle fails. Backport from rev 53646.

the master should close the slave fd.

Added a test to test_pty.py that reads from the master_fd after doing
a pty.fork(); without the fix it hangs forever instead of raising an
exception.  (<crossing fingers for the buildbots>)

Backport from trunk rev. 53146.

 (backport from rev. 53603)

 (backport from rev. 53579)

a with statement; previously, executing code containing a with statement
compiled by the compiler package crashed the interpreter.
 (backport from rev. 53575)

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

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  r53556 | thomas.heller | 2007-01-25 19:34:14 +0100 (Do, 25 Jan 2007) | 3 lines

  Fix for #1643874: When calling SysAllocString, create a PyCObject
  which will eventually call SysFreeString to free the BSTR resource.
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