Also fix the test by having the test classes inherit from object.

Are the getter/setter/deleter attributes supposed to be able to chain?  As of
right now they can't as the property tries to call what the property returns,
which is another property when they are chained.

line).

Will backport.

using a trick found in ifilter().
Feel free to backport to 2.5.

Still need tests for warn_explicit and simplefilter.

This changes the rules for when __hash__ is inherited slightly,
by allowing it to be inherited when one or more of __lt__, __le__,
__gt__, __ge__ are overridden, as long as __eq__ and __ne__ aren't.

This adds signal.set_wakeup_fd(fd) which sets a file descriptor to
which a zero byte will be written whenever a C exception handler runs.

I added a simple C API as well, PySignal_SetWakeupFd(fd).

#1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE, Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT. Macros for b/w compatibility are available.

The patch unifies float("inf") and repr(float("inf")) on all platforms.

Allows dictionaries to be pre-sized (upto 255 elements) saving time lost
to re-sizes with their attendant mallocs and re-insertions.

Has zero effect on small dictionaries (5 elements or fewer), a slight
benefit for dicts upto 22 elements (because they had to resize once
anyway), and more benefit for dicts upto 255 elements (saving multiple
resizes during the build-up and reducing the number of collisions on
the first insertions).  Beyond 255 elements, there is no addional benefit.

New opcode, STORE_MAP saves the compiler from awkward stack manipulations
and specializes for dicts using PyDict_SetItem instead of PyObject_SetItem.

Old disassembly:
              0 BUILD_MAP                0
              3 DUP_TOP
              4 LOAD_CONST               1 (1)
              7 ROT_TWO
              8 LOAD_CONST               2 ('x')
             11 STORE_SUBSCR
             12 DUP_TOP
             13 LOAD_CONST               3 (2)
             16 ROT_TWO
             17 LOAD_CONST               4 ('y')
             20 STORE_SUBSCR

New disassembly:
              0 BUILD_MAP                0
              3 LOAD_CONST               1 (1)
              6 LOAD_CONST               2 ('x')
              9 STORE_MAP
             10 LOAD_CONST               3 (2)
             13 LOAD_CONST               4 ('y')
             16 STORE_MAP

Amaury's ideas works great. Should we build the Python core with WINVER=0x0500 and _WIN32_WINNT=0x0500, too?

is now simpler.  Thanks Mark Dickinson.