iswide() for east asian width manipulation. (Inspired by David
Goodger, Reviewed by Martin v. Loewis)
- Move _PyUnicode_TypeRecord.flags to the end of the struct so that
no padding is added for UCS-4 builds. (Suggested by Martin v. Loewis)

building for that platform.

Will backport to 2.3.

Will backport to 2.3.

Will backport to 2.3.

Will backport to 2.3.

report that the stats for expected # of collisions are a little higher.
Updated comments accordingly.

(Basic approach and test concept by Tim Peters.)

* Improved the hash to reduce collisions.
* Added the torture test to the test suite.

Including changes from Ian Holsman to build under Red Hat 7.3.
Fixing some problems with the /usr/local path change.

The disutils sdist command now ignores .svn directories.

mapping tests as possible in mapping_test.py and reuse the tests in
test_dict.py, test_userdict.py, test_weakref.py, test_os.py and test_shelve.py.
From SF patch #736962.

Add this default to weakref.WeakValueDictionary.setdefault()
and weakref.WeakKeyDictionary.setdefault() too.

Add this default to UserDict.DictMixin.setdefault() too.

[ 899109 ] 1==float('nan')

which can now finally be closed, I think.

[ 728330 ] Don't define _SGAPI on IRIX

The Right Thing would be nice, for now this'll do.  At least it isn't
going to break anything *other* than IRIX...