(And similarly for complex numbers.)

Issue #5920: Changed format.__float__ and complex.__float__ to use a precision of 12 when using the empty presentation type. This more closely matches str()'s behavior and reduces surprises when adding alignment flags to an empty format string. Patch by Mark Dickinson.

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  r64722 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-05 12:13:36 +0200 (Sat, 05 Jul 2008) | 4 lines

  #2663: support an *ignore* argument to shutil.copytree(). Patch by Tarek Ziade.

  This is a new feature, but Barry authorized adding it in the beta period.
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  r64729 | mark.dickinson | 2008-07-05 13:33:52 +0200 (Sat, 05 Jul 2008) | 5 lines

  Issue 3188: accept float('infinity') as well as float('inf').  This
  makes the float constructor behave in the same way as specified
  by various other language standards, including C99, IEEE 754r,
  and the IBM Decimal standard.
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  r64753 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-07-06 05:35:58 +0200 (Sun, 06 Jul 2008) | 4 lines

  - Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with other
    freelists.  Changes their CompactFreeList apis into ClearFreeList apis and
    calls them via gc.collect().
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  r64845 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-10 16:03:19 +0200 (Thu, 10 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Issue 3301:  Bisect functions behaved badly when lo was negative.
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  r64846 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-10 16:34:57 +0200 (Thu, 10 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Issue 3285: Fractions from_float() and from_decimal() accept Integral arguments.
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  r64849 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-07-10 16:43:31 +0200 (Thu, 10 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Wording changes
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  r64871 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-11 14:00:21 +0200 (Fri, 11 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Add cautionary note on the use of PySequence_Fast_ITEMS.
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  r64880 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-07-11 23:28:25 +0200 (Fri, 11 Jul 2008) | 5 lines

  #3317 in zipfile module, restore the previous names of global variables:
  some applications relied on them.

  Also remove duplicated lines.
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  r64881 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-07-11 23:45:06 +0200 (Fri, 11 Jul 2008) | 3 lines

  #3342: In tracebacks, printed source lines were not indented since r62555.
  #3343: Py_DisplaySourceLine should be a private function. Rename it to _Py_DisplaySourceLine.
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  r64882 | josiah.carlson | 2008-07-12 00:17:14 +0200 (Sat, 12 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix for the AttributeError in test_asynchat.
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  r64885 | josiah.carlson | 2008-07-12 01:26:59 +0200 (Sat, 12 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Fixed test for asyncore.
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  r64888 | matthias.klose | 2008-07-12 09:51:48 +0200 (Sat, 12 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  - Fix bashisms in Tools/faqwiz/move-faqwiz.sh
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  r64897 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-12 22:16:19 +0200 (Sat, 12 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  fix various doc typos #3320
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  r64900 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-07-13 00:06:53 +0200 (Sun, 13 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Fixed typo.
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  r64901 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-13 01:41:19 +0200 (Sun, 13 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  #1778443 robotparser fixes from Aristotelis Mikropoulos
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  r64915 | nick.coghlan | 2008-07-13 16:52:36 +0200 (Sun, 13 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Fix issue 3221 by emitting a RuntimeWarning instead of raising SystemError when the parent module can't be found during an absolute import (likely due to non-PEP 361 aware code which sets a module level __package__ attribute)
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  r64926 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-07-13 22:31:49 +0200 (Sun, 13 Jul 2008) | 2 lines

  Add turtle into the module index.
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  r64927 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-07-13 22:42:44 +0200 (Sun, 13 Jul 2008) | 3 lines

  Issue #3274: Use a less common identifier for the temporary variable
  in Py_CLEAR().
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  r64928 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-07-13 23:43:25 +0200 (Sun, 13 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Re-word
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  r64929 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-07-13 23:43:52 +0200 (Sun, 13 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Add various items; move ctypes items into a subsection of their own
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  r64938 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-07-14 02:35:32 +0200 (Mon, 14 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Typo fixes
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  r64939 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-07-14 02:40:55 +0200 (Mon, 14 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Typo fix
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  r64940 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-07-14 03:18:16 +0200 (Mon, 14 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Typo fix
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  r64941 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-07-14 03:18:31 +0200 (Mon, 14 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Expand the multiprocessing section
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  r64944 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-07-14 08:06:48 +0200 (Mon, 14 Jul 2008) | 7 lines

  Fix posix.fork1() / os.fork1() to only call PyOS_AfterFork() in the child
  process rather than both parent and child.

  Does anyone actually use fork1()?  It appears to be a Solaris thing
  but if Python is built with pthreads on Solaris, fork1() and fork()
  should be the same.
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  r64961 | jesse.noller | 2008-07-15 15:47:33 +0200 (Tue, 15 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  multiprocessing/connection.py patch to remove fqdn oddness for issue 3270
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  r64966 | nick.coghlan | 2008-07-15 17:40:22 +0200 (Tue, 15 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Add missing NEWS entry for r64962
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  r64973 | jesse.noller | 2008-07-15 20:29:18 +0200 (Tue, 15 Jul 2008) | 1 line

  Revert 3270 patch: self._address is in pretty widespread use, need to revisit
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  r62380 | christian.heimes | 2008-04-19 01:13:07 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 3 lines

  I finally got the time to update and merge Mark's and my trunk-math branch. The patch is collaborated work of Mark Dickinson and me. It was mostly done a few months ago. The patch fixes a lot of loose ends and edge cases related to operations with NaN, INF, very small values and complex math.

  The patch also adds acosh, asinh, atanh, log1p and copysign to all platforms. Finally it fixes differences between platforms like different results or exceptions for edge cases. Have fun :)
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  r62382 | christian.heimes | 2008-04-19 01:40:40 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Added new files to Windows project files
  More Windows related fixes are coming soon
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  r62383 | christian.heimes | 2008-04-19 01:49:11 +0200 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Stupid me. Py_RETURN_NAN should actually return something ...
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  r60553 | neal.norwitz | 2008-02-03 17:53:09 +0100 (Sun, 03 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Ignore leaky warnings from test_asynchat
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  r60555 | christian.heimes | 2008-02-03 20:51:13 +0100 (Sun, 03 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Another int -> pid_t case
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  r60560 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-02-03 23:51:43 +0100 (Sun, 03 Feb 2008) | 6 lines

  Ensure that PySet_Add() operates on a newly created frozenset, like PyTuple_SetItem does.

  Add PyFrozenSet_Check(), which was not needed before; The list of Py*Set_Check* macros seems to be complete now.

  Add missing NEWS entries about all this.
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  r60563 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-02-04 00:14:32 +0100 (Mon, 04 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Nasty typo in setobject.h
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  r60564 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-02-04 00:15:32 +0100 (Mon, 04 Feb 2008) | 3 lines

  Correct test_mailbox on win32: since the test sets a custom 'colon' attribute
  to the main mailbox, copy it to secondary mailbox instances.
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  r60565 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-02-04 00:57:24 +0100 (Mon, 04 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Let test_socketserver pass on win32, which does not have AF_UNIX sockets.
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  r60566 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-02-04 02:04:35 +0100 (Mon, 04 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Make int() and long() fall back to __trunc__(). See issue 2002.
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  r60567 | christian.heimes | 2008-02-04 19:00:12 +0100 (Mon, 04 Feb 2008) | 3 lines

  Patch #1953
  I implemented the function sys._compact_freelists() and C API functions PyInt_/PyFloat_CompactFreeList() to compact the pre-allocated blocks of ints and floats. They allow the user to reduce the memory usage of a Python process that deals with lots of numbers.
  The patch also renames sys._cleartypecache to sys._clear_type_cache
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Issue #1580: New free format floating point representation based on "Floating-Point Printer Sample Code", by Robert G. Burger. For example repr(11./5) now returns '2.2' instead of '2.2000000000000002'.

Thanks to noam for the patch! I had to modify doubledigits.c slightly to support X64 and IA64 machines on Windows. I also added the new file to the three project files.

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  r59245 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-30 23:04:45 +0100 (Fri, 30 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Move lchmod() docs to correct place, and add versionadded tags.
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  r59249 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-30 23:36:10 +0100 (Fri, 30 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Backport of -r59242:59246 from py3k
  Fixed problem with regrtest caused by the additional of objects to _abcoll.
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  r59253 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-01 02:03:20 +0100 (Sat, 01 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Although pyconfig.h claims that WIN32 is obsolete it is still required for the locale module. locale.getdefaultlocale() fails silently w/o the WIN32 macro.
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  r59254 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-01 12:20:10 +0100 (Sat, 01 Dec 2007) | 3 lines

  Feature #1534
  Added PyFloat_GetMax(), PyFloat_GetMin() and PyFloat_GetInfo() to the float API.
  Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
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  r56477 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-07-21 09:04:38 +0200 (Sa, 21 Jul 2007) | 11 lines

  Merged revisions 56466-56476 via svnmerge from
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    r56476 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-07-21 08:55:02 +0200 (Sa, 21 Jul 2007) | 4 lines

    PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while keeping
    backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size, and
    PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
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  r56478 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-07-21 09:47:23 +0200 (Sa, 21 Jul 2007) | 2 lines

  PEP 3123: Use proper C inheritance for PyObject.
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  r56479 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-07-21 10:06:55 +0200 (Sa, 21 Jul 2007) | 3 lines

  Add longintrepr.h to Python.h, so that the compiler can
  see that PyFalse is really some kind of PyObject*.
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  r56480 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-07-21 10:47:18 +0200 (Sa, 21 Jul 2007) | 2 lines

  Qualify SHIFT, MASK, BASE.
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  r56482 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-07-21 19:10:57 +0200 (Sa, 21 Jul 2007) | 2 lines

  Correctly refer to _ob_next.
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PyFloat_FromString. (fixes bug #1650903)

have been public due to passing buffers without lengths.

[ 1181301 ] make float packing copy bytes when they can

which hasn't been reviewed, despite numerous threats to check it in
anyway if noone reviews it.  Please read the diff on the checkin list,
at least!

The basic idea is to examine the bytes of some 'probe values' to see if
the current platform is a IEEE 754-ish platform, and if so
_PyFloat_{Pack,Unpack}{4,8} just copy bytes around.

The rest is hair for testing, and tests.

refactoring to get all the duplicates of this delicate code out of the
cPickle and struct modules.

Thanks to Skip Montanaro and Kalle Svensson for the patches.

Repair float constructor to return a true float when passed a subclass
instance.  New PyFloat_CheckExact macro.

Store floats and doubles to full precision in marshal.
Test that floats read from .pyc/.pyo closely match those read from .py.
Declare PyFloat_AsString() in floatobject header file.
Add new PyFloat_AsReprString() API function.
Document the functions declared in floatobject.h.

This should match the situation in the 1.6b1 tree.

messages for specific changes.

use the new names exclusively, and the linker will see the new names.
Files that import "Python.h" also only see the new names.  Files that
import "allobjects.h" will continue to be able to use the old names,
due to the inclusion (in allobjects.h) of "rename2.h".

object.h: made sizes and refcnts signed ints.
stringobject.h: make getstrsize() signed int.
methodobject.h: add METH_VARARGS and METH_FREENAME flag bit definitions.

* Makefile: change location of FORMS library.
* posixmodule.c: turn #if 0 into #ifdef MSDOS (stuff in unistd.h or not)
* Almost all .h files: added CPP magic to avoid duplicate inclusions and
  to support inclusion from C++.

* Stubs for faster implementation of local variables (not yet finished)
* Added function name to code object.  Print it for code and function
  objects.  THIS MAKES THE .PYC FILE FORMAT INCOMPATIBLE (the version
  number has changed accordingly)
* Print address of self for built-in methods
* New internal functions getattro and setattro (getattr/setattr with
  string object arg)
* Replaced "dictobject" with more powerful "mappingobject"
* New per-type functio tp_hash to implement arbitrary object hashing,
  and hashobject() to interface to it
* Added built-in functions hash(v) and hasattr(v, 'name')
* classobject: made some functions static that accidentally weren't;
  added __hash__ special instance method to implement hash()
* Added proper comparison for built-in methods and functions