I had to modify Brett's patch slightly.

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).

The detection now works on Unix with Makefile, Makefile with VPATH and on Windows.

Thanks to Ian Bruntlett and Robert Lehmann.

I added also the feature that a @prop.getter decorator does not overwrite the doc string of the property if it was given as an argument to property().

run it and check in the resulting configure file.

Fix bug 1604. deque.__init__() did not clear existing contents like list.__init__. Not a backport candidate.

- Backported a workaround for a bug in SQLite 3.2.x/3.3.x versions where a
  statement recompilation with no bound parameters lead to a segfault
- Backported a fix necessary because of an SQLite API change in version
  3.5.
  This prevents segfaults when executing empty queries, like our test suite
  does

Cosmetic changes, one bug.  Remove tabpage.py, replaced by tabbedpages.py

The new float repr causes too much trouble and pain. I'm disabling the feature until we have sorted out the issues on all machines. 64bit machines seem to have issues and Guido has reported even worse.
Guido: It's pretty bad actually -- repr(1e5) comes out as '1.0'... Ditto for
repr(1eN) for most N... Both in 2.6 and in 3.0...