Most fixes to Doc/ and Lib/ directories by Ville Skyttä.

Based on patch by Daan Bakker.

Incorrect requirements can cause memory swapping.

Patch by Christian Heimes, with modifications.

as promised by hashlib's documentation.

  evil assert statements.
* Add an additional assert to the new test_name_attribute test that actually
  confirms that a hash created using each h.name results in a new hash sharing
  the same name.

Issue 18532: Added tests and documentation to formally specify the .name attribute on hashlib objects.

instead of manually listing tests for test.support.run_unittest().

regardless of which of the two implementations of new is used.

regardless of which of the two implementations of new is used.

invalid parameters.

Issue #14693: Under non-Windows platforms, hashlib's fallback modules are always compiled, even if OpenSSL is present at build time.

- bigmemtest is replaced by precisionbigmemtest
- add a poor man's watchdog thread to print memory consumption

the expected builtin modules are not present.

This includes a unittest for __get_builtin_constructor() in the face
of such an error.

the expected builtin modules are not present.

This includes a unittest for __get_builtin_constructor() in the face
of such an error.

the expected builtin modules are not present.

This includes a unittest for __get_builtin_constructor() in the face
of such an error.

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  r86596 | ezio.melotti | 2010-11-20 21:04:17 +0200 (Sat, 20 Nov 2010) | 1 line

  #9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
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  r86338 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-11-08 21:36:57 +0100 (lun., 08 nov. 2010) | 3 lines

  Fix test_hashlib with the bigmem option
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algorithms_avaiable that respectively list the names of hash algorithms
guaranteed to exist in all Python implementations and the names of hash
algorithms available in the current process.

Renames the attribute new in 3.2a0 'algorithms' to 'algorithms_guaranteed'.

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  r80552 | victor.stinner | 2010-04-27 23:46:03 +0200 (mar., 27 avril 2010) | 3 lines

  Issue #7449, part 1: fix test_support.py for Python compiled without thread
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  r80553 | victor.stinner | 2010-04-27 23:47:01 +0200 (mar., 27 avril 2010) | 1 line

  Issue #7449, part 2: regrtest.py -j option requires thread support
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  r80554 | victor.stinner | 2010-04-27 23:51:26 +0200 (mar., 27 avril 2010) | 9 lines

  Issue #7449 part 3, test_doctest: import trace module in test_coverage()

  Import trace module fail if the threading module is missing. test_coverage() is
  only used if test_doctest.py is used with the -c option. This commit allows to
  execute the test suite without thread support.

  Move "import trace" in test_coverage() and use
  test_support.import_module('trace').
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  r80555 | victor.stinner | 2010-04-27 23:56:26 +0200 (mar., 27 avril 2010) | 6 lines

  Issue #7449, part 4: skip test_multiprocessing if thread support is disabled

  import threading after _multiprocessing to raise a more revelant error message:
  "No module named _multiprocessing". _multiprocessing is not compiled without
  thread support.
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  r80556 | victor.stinner | 2010-04-28 00:01:24 +0200 (mer., 28 avril 2010) | 8 lines

  Issue #7449, part 5: split Test.test_open() of ctypes/test/test_errno.py

   * Split Test.test_open() in 2 functions: test_open() and test_thread_open()
   * Skip test_open() and test_thread_open() if we are unable to find the C
     library
   * Skip test_thread_open() if thread support is disabled
   * Use unittest.skipUnless(os.name == "nt", ...) on test_GetLastError()
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  r80564 | victor.stinner | 2010-04-28 00:59:35 +0200 (mer., 28 avril 2010) | 4 lines

  Issue #7449, part 6: fix test_hashlib for missing threading module

  Move @test_support.reap_thread decorator from test_main() to test_threaded_hashing().
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  r80565 | victor.stinner | 2010-04-28 01:01:29 +0200 (mer., 28 avril 2010) | 6 lines

  Issue #7449, part 7: simplify threading detection in test_capi

   * Skip TestPendingCalls if threading module is missing
   * Test if threading module is present or not, instead of test the presence of
     _testcapi._test_thread_state
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  r80566 | victor.stinner | 2010-04-28 01:03:16 +0200 (mer., 28 avril 2010) | 4 lines

  Issue #7449, part 8: don't skip the whole test_asynchat if threading is missing

  TestFifo can be executed without the threading module
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  r80568 | victor.stinner | 2010-04-28 01:14:58 +0200 (mer., 28 avril 2010) | 6 lines

  Issue #7449, part 9: fix test_xmlrpclib for missing threading module

   * Skip testcases using threads if threading module is missing
   * Use "http://" instead of URL in ServerProxyTestCase if threading is missing
     because URL is not set in this case
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  r80569 | victor.stinner | 2010-04-28 01:33:58 +0200 (mer., 28 avril 2010) | 6 lines

  Partial revert of r80556 (Issue #7449, part 5, fix ctypes test)

  Rewrite r80556: the thread test have to be executed just after the test on
  libc_open() and so the test cannot be splitted in two functions (without
  duplicating code, and I don't want to duplicate code).
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  r80570 | victor.stinner | 2010-04-28 01:51:16 +0200 (mer., 28 avril 2010) | 8 lines

  Issue #7449, part 10: test_cmd imports trace module using test_support.import_module()

  Use test_support.import_module() instead of import to raise a SkipTest
  exception if the import fail. Import trace fails if the threading module is
  missing.

  See also part 3: test_doctest: import trace module in test_coverage().
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  r80571 | victor.stinner | 2010-04-28 01:55:59 +0200 (mer., 28 avril 2010) | 6 lines

  Issue #7449, last part (11): fix many tests if thread support is disabled

   * Use try/except ImportError or test_support.import_module() to import thread
     and threading modules
   * Add @unittest.skipUnless(threading, ...) to testcases using threads
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Move @test_support.reap_thread decorator from test_main() to test_threaded_hashing().

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  r77120 | georg.brandl | 2009-12-29 22:09:17 +0100 (Di, 29 Dez 2009) | 1 line

  #7595: fix typo in argument default constant.
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  r77151 | georg.brandl | 2009-12-30 19:32:50 +0100 (Mi, 30 Dez 2009) | 1 line

  #7487: update Pygments version.
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  r77155 | georg.brandl | 2009-12-30 20:03:00 +0100 (Mi, 30 Dez 2009) | 1 line

  We only support Windows NT derivatives now.
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  r77209 | georg.brandl | 2010-01-01 14:07:05 +0100 (Fr, 01 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  More yearly updates.
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  r77229 | georg.brandl | 2010-01-02 13:35:01 +0100 (Sa, 02 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  Fix casing.
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  r77256 | georg.brandl | 2010-01-02 23:55:55 +0100 (Sa, 02 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  Fix typo.
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  r77317 | georg.brandl | 2010-01-05 19:14:52 +0100 (Di, 05 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  Add Stefan.
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  r77331 | georg.brandl | 2010-01-06 18:43:06 +0100 (Mi, 06 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  Small fixes to test_cmd: fix signature of do_shell, remove duplicate import, add option to run the custom Cmd class.
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  r77333 | georg.brandl | 2010-01-06 19:26:08 +0100 (Mi, 06 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  #5950: document that zip files with comments are unsupported in zipimport.
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  r77359 | georg.brandl | 2010-01-07 21:54:45 +0100 (Do, 07 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  Fix description for Py_GetPath(); it sounded like it always returned sys.path.
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  r77360 | georg.brandl | 2010-01-07 22:48:47 +0100 (Do, 07 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  #7653: clarify how the PythonPath registry key should look like.
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  r77382 | georg.brandl | 2010-01-09 10:47:11 +0100 (Sa, 09 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  #7422: make it clear that getargspec() only works on Python functions.
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  r77561 | georg.brandl | 2010-01-17 09:42:30 +0100 (So, 17 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  #7699: improve datetime docs: straightforward linking to strftime/strptime section, mark classmethods as such.
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  r77570 | georg.brandl | 2010-01-17 13:14:42 +0100 (So, 17 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  Add note about usage of STRINGLIB_EMPTY.
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  r78093 | georg.brandl | 2010-02-07 18:03:15 +0100 (So, 07 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  Remove unused imports in test modules.
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  r78528 | gregory.p.smith | 2010-02-28 18:01:47 -0800 (Sun, 28 Feb 2010) | 2 lines

  Adds the hashlib.algorithms attribute.  See issue7418.
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