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

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  r59513 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-15 01:07:25 +0100 (Sat, 15 Dec 2007) | 6 lines

  Optimize PyList_AsTuple(). Improve cache performance by doing the
  pointer copy and object increment in one pass.  For small lists,
  save the overhead of the call to memcpy() -- this comes up in
  calls like f(*listcomp).
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  r59519 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-15 06:38:35 +0100 (Sat, 15 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Fixed #1624: Remove output comparison for test_pep277
  I had to modify Brett's patch slightly.
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  r59520 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-15 10:34:59 +0100 (Sat, 15 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Add note about future import needed for with statement.
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  r59522 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-15 10:36:37 +0100 (Sat, 15 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Argh, wrong version.
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  r59524 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-16 12:06:09 +0100 (Sun, 16 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Dummy commit to investigate #1617.
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  r59525 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-16 12:21:48 +0100 (Sun, 16 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Revert dummy commit now that the build slave is building.
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  r59527 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-16 16:47:46 +0100 (Sun, 16 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Remove orphaned footnote reference.
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  r59528 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-16 16:53:49 +0100 (Sun, 16 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Remove gratuitous unicode character.
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  r59529 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-16 16:59:19 +0100 (Sun, 16 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Remove another unnecessary Unicode character.
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  r59530 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-16 17:00:36 +0100 (Sun, 16 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Remove curious space-like characters.
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  r59532 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-16 20:36:51 +0100 (Sun, 16 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Adapt conf.py to new option names.
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  r59533 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-16 22:39:43 +0100 (Sun, 16 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Fixed #1638: %zd configure test fails on Linux
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  r59536 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-17 00:11:16 +0100 (Mon, 17 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Simplify.
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  r59537 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-17 00:13:29 +0100 (Mon, 17 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Use PEP 8.
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  r59539 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-17 00:15:07 +0100 (Mon, 17 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Don't use quotes for non-string code.
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  r59540 | facundo.batista | 2007-12-17 15:18:42 +0100 (Mon, 17 Dec 2007) | 4 lines


  Removed the private _rounding_decision: it was not needed, and the code
  is now simpler.  Thanks Mark Dickinson.
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The patch fixes some of the problems on Windows. It doesn't introduce
addition problems on Linux.

There's one major and one minor category still unfixed:
doctests are the major category (and I hope to be able to augment the
refactoring tool to refactor bona fide doctests soon);
other code generating print statements in strings is the minor category.

(Oh, and I don't know if the compiler package works.)

(a) "except E, V" -> "except E as V"
(b) V is now limited to a simple name (local variable)
(c) V is now deleted at the end of the except block

returned depends on the filesystem encoding.

encoding.  Use sys.getfilesystemencoding().

and test_support.run_classtests() into run_unittest()
and use it wherever possible.

Also don't use "from test.test_support import ...", but
"from test import test_support" in a few spots.

From SF patch #662807.

sys.getwindowsversion() on Windows (new enahanced Tim-proof <wink>
version), and fix test_pep277.py in a few minor ways.
Including doc and NEWS entries.

a junk directory behind that caused 4 other tests to fail later.  Now
it cleans up after itself, and the 4 bogus later failures don't happen.