C implementation of unpickler.  UnpicklingError is now raised instead of
AttributeError and ValueError in some cases.

Original patch by Alexandre Vassalotti.

Output raised exception at verbose level 2 (-vv).

Added WindowsError to compatibility mappings.

Fixed ambigious reverse mappings.  Added many new mappings.  Import mapping
is no longer applied to modules already mapped with full name mapping.

Added tests for compatible pickling and unpickling and for consistency of
_compat_pickle mappings.

Initial patch by Merlijn van Deen.

I've added a few unrelated docstring fixes in the patch while I was at
it, which makes the documentation for pickle a bit more consistent.

segfault inside the _pickle C extension.

Issue #14166: Pickler objects now have an optional `dispatch_table` attribute which allows to set custom per-pickler reduction functions.
Patch by sbt.

(more than 2**31 items).  Instead, in most cases, an OverflowError is raised.

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r88546 | alexander.belopolsky | 2011-02-24 14:40:09 -0500 (Thu, 24 Feb 2011) | 3 lines

  Issue #11286: Fixed unpickling of empty 2.x strings.
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speedups up to 4x (depending on the benchmark).  Mostly ported from
Unladen Swallow; initial patch by Alexandre Vassalotti.

- Add tests for the module-level load() and dump() functions.
- Add tests for cPickle's internal data structures, stressing workloads
with many gets/puts.
- Add tests for the Pickler and Unpickler classes, in particular the
memo attribute.
- test_xpickle is extended to test backwards compatibility with Python
2.4, 2.5 and 2.6 by round-tripping pickled objects through a worker
process. This is guarded with a regrtest -u xpickle resource.

Removed Windows support temporarily.
64bit bug with integer unpickling is now fixed.

  for bytes.  This is the default protocol.  It intentionally cannot
  be unpickled by Python 2.x.

- When a pickle	written	by Python 2.x contains an (8-bit) str
  instance, this is now decoded to a (Unicode) str instance.  The
  encoding used to do this defaults to ASCII, but can be overridden
  via two new keyword arguments to the Unpickler class.  Previously
  this would create bytes instances, which is usually wrong: str
  instances are often used to pickle attribute names etc., and text is
  more common than binary data anyway.

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

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  r60990 | eric.smith | 2008-02-23 17:05:26 +0100 (Sat, 23 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Removed duplicate Py_CHARMASK define.  It's already defined in Python.h.
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  r60991 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-02-23 17:23:05 +0100 (Sat, 23 Feb 2008) | 4 lines

  #1330538: Improve comparison of xmlrpclib.DateTime and datetime instances.
  Remove automatic handling of datetime.date and datetime.time.
  This breaks backward compatibility, but python-dev discussion was strongly
  against this automatic conversion; see the bug for a link.
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  r60994 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-02-23 17:39:43 +0100 (Sat, 23 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  #835521: Add index entries for various pickle-protocol methods and attributes
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  r60995 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-02-23 18:10:46 +0100 (Sat, 23 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  #1433694: minidom's .normalize() failed to set .nextSibling for last element.
  Fix by Malte Helmert
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  r61000 | christian.heimes | 2008-02-23 18:40:11 +0100 (Sat, 23 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Patch #2167 from calvin: Remove unused imports
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  r61001 | christian.heimes | 2008-02-23 18:42:31 +0100 (Sat, 23 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3)
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  r61002 | christian.heimes | 2008-02-23 18:52:07 +0100 (Sat, 23 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Issue #2051 and patch from Alexander Belopolsky:
  Permission for pyc and pyo files are inherited from the py file.
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No detailed change log; just check out the change log for the py3k-pep3137
branch.  The most obvious changes:

  - str8 renamed to bytes (PyString at the C level);
  - bytes renamed to buffer (PyBytes at the C level);
  - PyString and PyUnicode are no longer compatible.

I.e. we now have an immutable bytes type and a mutable bytes type.

The behavior of PyString was modified quite a bit, to make it more
bytes-like.  Some changes are still on the to-do list.

(Alas, test_cpickle is still broken.)

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.

the optional proto 2 slot state.

pickle.py, load_build():  CAUTION:  Noted that cPickle's
load_build and pickle's load_build really don't do the same
things with the state, and didn't before this patch either.
cPickle never tries to do .update(), and has no backoff if
instance.__dict__ can't be retrieved.  There are no tests
that can tell the difference, and part of what cPickle's
load_build() did looked accidental to me, so I don't know
what the true intent is here.

pickletester.py, test_pickle.py:  Got rid of the hack for
exempting cPickle from running some of the proto 2 tests.

dictobject.c, PyDict_Next():  documented intended use.

types.  The special handling for these can now be removed from save_newobj().
Add some testing for this.

Also add support for setting the 'fast' flag on the Python Pickler class,
which suppresses use of the memo.

only get run by test_pickle.py now (& not by test_cpickle.py).  This
should be undone when protocol 2 is implemented in cPickle too.
test_cpickle should pass again.

change in meaning.

Add some simple tests of the persistence hooks.