merge 2.7.9 release branch

.hgtags

@@ -167,3 +167,4 @@ e32e3a9f390212463c22509d0f9aead8051cee63 v2.7.7rc1
 f89216059edf77660ef1eb2a98e88352551da1d6 v2.7.7
 ee879c0ffa11caaa34bf01537e1c4411dd948552 v2.7.8
 40eada278702349a2b2f334aa9d91fa7090ea1e3 v2.7.9rc1
+648dcafa7e5f40da31079bc7a7f0c445f1ea4ab9 v2.7.9

Include/patchlevel.h

@@ -23,11 +23,11 @@
 #define PY_MAJOR_VERSION	2
 #define PY_MINOR_VERSION	7
 #define PY_MICRO_VERSION	9
-#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL	PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_GAMMA
-#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL	1
+#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL	PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_FINAL
+#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL	0
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION      	"2.7.9rc1"
+#define PY_VERSION      	"2.7.9"
 /*--end constants--*/
 
 /* Subversion Revision number of this file (not of the repository). Empty

Lib/distutils/__init__.py

@@ -15,5 +15,5 @@ __revision__ = "$Id$"
 # Updated automatically by the Python release process.
 #
 #--start constants--
-__version__ = "2.7.9rc1"
+__version__ = "2.7.9"
 #--end constants--

Lib/idlelib/idlever.py

-IDLE_VERSION = "2.7.9rc1"
+IDLE_VERSION = "2.7.9"

Misc/NEWS

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ IDLE
 What's New in Python 2.7.9?
 ===========================
 
-*Release date: 2014-12-XX*
+*Release date: 2014-12-10*
 
 Library
 -------

Misc/RPM/python-2.7.spec

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 
 %define name python
 #--start constants--
-%define version 2.7.9rc1
+%define version 2.7.9
 %define libvers 2.7
 #--end constants--
 %define release 1pydotorg