Patch from Trent Nelson.  Also simplified removing a file by using test_support.

would give bogus error messages, because of untested exceptions::

    >>> f(**g(1=2))
    XXX undetected error
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    TypeError: 'int' object is not iterable

instead of the expected SyntaxError: keyword can't be an expression

Will backport.

The bundled libffi copy is now in sync with the recently released
libffi3.0.4 version, apart from some small changes to
Modules/_ctypes/libffi/configure.ac.

I gave up on using libffi3 files on os x.
Instead, static configuration with files from pyobjc is used.

As reported by Trent Nelson on python-dev.

Since abc._Abstract was replaces by a new type flags the regression test suite fails. I've added a new function inspect.isabstract(). Is the mmethod fine or should I check if object is a instance of type or subclass of object, too?

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/trunk-math

that regrtest can execute the test_main() directly instead of relying on import
side-effects.

tests is important.

tests is important.

Also rename the driver function to test_main() instead of main_test().

ceval.c. This is worth about a .03-.04us speedup on a simple with block.

issues.

Thanks to Antoine Pitrou for the patch.

stand alone distribution of bsddb that includes its own small copy of
test_support for the needed functionality on older pythons.

support "create table if not exists", yet.