tarfile is now able to read and write pax headers with a
"hdrcharset=BINARY" record. This record was introduced in
POSIX.1-2008 as a method to store unencoded binary strings that
cannot be translated to UTF-8. In practice, this is just a workaround
that allows a tar implementation to store filenames that do not
comply with the current filesystem encoding and thus cannot be
decoded correctly.
Additionally, tarfile works around a bug in current versions of GNU
tar: undecodable filenames are stored as-is in a pax header without a
"hdrcharset" record being added. Technically, these headers are
invalid, but tarfile manages to read them correctly anyway.

Issue #1285086: Speed up urllib.parse functions: quote, quote_from_bytes, unquote, unquote_to_bytes.

Recorded merge of revisions 81265 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

........
  r81265 | florent.xicluna | 2010-05-17 15:35:09 +0200 (lun, 17 mai 2010) | 2 lines

  Issue #1285086: Speed up urllib.quote and urllib.unquote for simple cases.
........

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

........
  r81259 | florent.xicluna | 2010-05-17 12:39:07 +0200 (lun, 17 mai 2010) | 2 lines

  Slight style cleanup.
........

producing the expected error message.  The test only tests what it's supposed
to test in pydebug mode though.  Fixes issue 8726.

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

........
  r81261 | tarek.ziade | 2010-05-17 12:54:43 +0200 (Mon, 17 May 2010) | 1 line

  upgraded distutils docs w.r.t. the manifest regeneration
........

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

........
  r81255 | tarek.ziade | 2010-05-17 12:06:20 +0200 (Mon, 17 May 2010) | 1 line

  Fixed #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
........

_PyUnicode_AsDefaultEncodedString() uses a magical PyUnicode attribute to
automatically destroy PyUnicode_EncodeUTF8() result when the unicode string is
destroyed.

PyObject_Print() writes into the C object stderr, whereas PySys_WriteStderr()
writes into the Python object sys.stderr. Each object has its own buffer, so
call sys.stderr.flush() and fflush(stderr).

of strict) error handler to escape surrogates

 * Replace os.defpath instead of os.get_exec_path() to test also
   os.get_exec_path()
 * Use contextlib.contextmanager, move the mockup outside the class, and
   the mockup returns directly the call list object
 * Use two different contexts for the two tests
 * Use more revelant values and names

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

........
  r81241 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-05-17 01:11:46 +0200 (lun., 17 mai 2010) | 4 lines

  Clear the OpenSSL error queue each time an error is signalled.
  When the error queue is not emptied, strange things can happen on the next SSL call, depending on the OpenSSL version.
........

for the filename

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

........
  r81229 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-05-16 16:16:56 +0200 (dim., 16 mai 2010) | 3 lines

  Document that SSL v2 is insecure.
........

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

........
  r81224 | victor.stinner | 2010-05-16 02:34:40 +0200 (dim., 16 mai 2010) | 4 lines

  Use with open() as fo: ... instead of try: fo = open(...) finally: fo.close()

  fo is not set if the open() fails.
........

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

........
  r81220 | victor.stinner | 2010-05-16 00:55:28 +0200 (dim., 16 mai 2010) | 4 lines

  Use 4-spaces for indentation (instead of tabs) in pgen outputs

  Regenerate (reindent) Python/graminit.c
........

importlib that is causing it to fail. Work to fix it is being tracked in issue
8727.

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

........
  r81213 | victor.stinner | 2010-05-16 00:19:27 +0200 (dim., 16 mai 2010) | 5 lines

  reindent _cursesmodule.c

  Use untabify.py + emacs (python3 mode) + manual editions for
  Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS / Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
........

........
  r81210 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2010-05-15 23:45:30 +0200 (sam., 15 mai 2010) | 2 lines

  Remove unused variable, and fix a compilation warning on Windows
........

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

........
  r81205 | victor.stinner | 2010-05-15 23:00:59 +0200 (sam., 15 mai 2010) | 2 lines

  NEWS: strip trailing spaces
........

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

........
  r81200 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-05-15 12:48:55 -0500 (Sat, 15 May 2010) | 1 line

  use TestCase skip method
........

(1) use a different algorithm that roughly halves the total number of
    multiplications required and results in more balanced multiplications
(2) use a lookup table for small arguments
(3) fast accumulation of products in C integer arithmetic rather than
    PyLong arithmetic when possible.

Typical speedup, from unscientific testing on a 64-bit laptop, is 4.5x
to 6.5x for arguments in the range 100 - 10000.

Patch by Daniel Stutzbach; extensive reviews by Alexander Belopolsky.