the function prototype.

Already backported to release23-maint.

(Contributed by George Yoshida.)

(Contributed by Andrew I MacIntyre.)

disables opcode prediction when dynamic execution
profiling is in effect, so the profiling counters at
the top of the main interpreter loop in eval_frame()
are updated for each opcode.

(Contributed by George Yoshida.)

* Also convert tabs to spaces.

(Contributed by Mike Pall.)

Make sure fill_free_list() is called only once rather than 106 times
when pre-allocating small ints.

(Reported by Drew Perttula.)

(Contributed by Alexey Klimkin.)

Don't keep the file descriptor after the channel is deleted.

  2.  Failure to clear the error when attempts to get the __getstate__
  attribute fail caused intermittent errors and odd behavior.

fairly simpleminded adaptation of Zope3's test.py -T flag.

I also changed some booleans to use True/False where appropriate.

  comes from and show the differences from lists).
* Add a rotate() method.

Python/thread_pthread.h.

time.strptime().

* Let deques support reversed().

Simplified version of Neal Norwitz's patch which adds gotos for
opcodes that set "why".  This skips a number of tests where the
outcome of the tests are known in advance.

characters instead of character pointers to determine space requirements.

the same object to be collected by the cyclic GC support if they are
only referenced by a cycle.  If the weakref being collected was one of
the weakrefs without callbacks, some local variables for the
constructor became invalid and have to be re-computed.

The test caused a segfault under a debug build without the fix applied.

  PyWeakref_NewProxy() constructors from the C API
- elaborate the getweakrefcount() and getweakrefs() tests slightly

weakref ref and proxy objects; None was not being treated as identical to
NULL, though it was documented as equivalent.