A patch from Dave Malcolm.

Updated documentation.
Merged revisions 63042 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r63042 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-05-11 04:25:28 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 5 lines

  Added module stub for copy_reg renaming in 3.0.
  Renamed copy_reg to copyreg in the standard library, to avoid
  spurious warnings and ease later merging to py3k branch. Public
  documentation remains intact.
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(Rough first cut.)

number of tests, all because of the codecs/_multibytecodecs issue described
here (it's not a Py3K issue, just something Py3K discovers):
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/064051.html

Hye-Shik Chang promised to look for a fix, so no need to fix it here. The
tests that are expected to break are:

test_codecencodings_cn
test_codecencodings_hk
test_codecencodings_jp
test_codecencodings_kr
test_codecencodings_tw
test_codecs
test_multibytecodec

This merge fixes an actual test failure (test_weakref) in this branch,
though, so I believe merging is the right thing to do anyway.

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.

imports e.g. test_support must do so using an absolute package name
such as "import test.test_support" or "from test import test_support".

This also updates the README in Lib/test, and gets rid of the
duplicate data dirctory in Lib/test/data (replaced by
Lib/email/test/data).

Now Tim and Jack can have at it. :)

allows using the tests with unittest.py as a script.  The tests will
still run when run as a script themselves.