The behaviour of winsound.Beep() seems to differ between different versions of Windows when there's either:
    a) no sound card entirely
    b) legacy beep driver has been disabled
    c) the legacy beep driver has been uninstalled
Sometimes RuntimeErrors are raised, sometimes they're not.  If _have_soundcard() returns False, don't expect winsound.Beep() to raise a RuntimeError, as this clearly isn't the case, as demonstrated by the various Win32 XP buildbots.

Issue 2321: reduce memory usage (increase the memory that is returned
to the system) by using pymalloc for the data of unicode objects.

(Exploit at request.)

 (backport from r61275)

#1725737: ignore other VC directories other than CVS and SVN's too.

permission to create files in the root directory.

The 2.6 version also converts to unittest, but it seems to work fine under 2.5.

Fix by Malte Helmert

upgrade their python2.5 install and then run Python's test suite.
This is needed because one of the test files for the decimal module
changed it name (see issue 2114) and OSX doesn't feature a full
package manager.

only on 32-bit systems.

MemoryError was not guaranteed.

Makefile explicitly for now

Makefile explicitly for now