Fix by Malte Helmert

only on 32-bit systems.

MemoryError was not guaranteed.

only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
can't be triggered from Python code.

implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.

Patch #1736: Fix file name handling of _msi.FCICreate.

the xstar format that puts extra fields inside the space that POSIX
has reserved for the prefix field.

Backport relevant part of issue 2021 fix (r60695): Support with statement properly in tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile

if default_factory is set to a bound method.

Backport of r60663.

type; this fix is already in the trunk.

default permissions for missing directories.

(backport from r53526, r60588)

The mapping between bytecode offsets and source lines (lnotab) did not contain
an entry for the beginning of the loop.

Now it does, and the lnotab can be a bit larger:
in particular, several statements on the same line generate several entries.
However, this does not bother the settrace function, which will trigger only
one 'line' event.

The lnotab seems to be exactly the same as with python2.4.

by signals.

Merge this fix from the pybsddb tree:
r293 | jcea | 2008-01-31 01:08:19 -0800 (Thu, 31 Jan 2008) | 4 lines

Solved memory leak when using cursors with
databases without environment.

as the documentation says.
 (backport from rev. 60322)

whole construct away, even when an 'else' clause is present::

    while 0:
        print("no")
    else:
        print("yes")

did not generate any code at all.

Now the compiler emits the 'else' block, like it already does for 'if' statements.

Backport of r60265.

Also removed three non-ASCII chars at start of file.

to not accept float types; the result was that integer-like objects
were not accepted.

Fixed bug #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode support.

- Fix Issue #1703448: A joined thread could show up in the
  threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
  it actually exited.

 (backport from rev. 60170)

headers beyond the signed 2**31 byte boundary.

- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
  collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
  to hang when the child wrote to stderr.

- Issue829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies with
  RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not obtained
  from the TLS negotiation itself.  Patch contributed by Bill Fenner.

  Fix a potential 'SystemError: NULL result without error'.
  NULL may be a valid return value from PyLong_AsVoidPtr.
Also move an older ctypes NEWS item in the correct category.

Fix 1698398:  Zipfile.printdir() crashed because the format string expected a tuple object of length six instead of a time.struct_time object.

Merged revisions 59925 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk/Modules/_ctypes

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  r59925 | thomas.heller | 2008-01-11 20:34:06 +0100 (Fr, 11 Jan 2008) | 5 lines

  Raise an error instead of crashing with a segfault when a NULL
  function pointer is called.

  Will backport to release25-maint.
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Patch 1114: fix compilation of curses module on 64-bit AIX, and any other LP64 platforms where attr_t isn't a C long