On more modern linuxes (and probably others) straight 'en_US' isn't a
valid locale. Make the code try a couple of alternates.

backport candidate

[ 1180995 ] binary formats for marshalling floats

Adds 2 new type codes for marshal (binary floats and binary complexes), a
new marshal version (2), updates MAGIC and fiddles the de-serializing of
code objects to be less likely to clobber the real reason for failing if
it fails.

component of the path.

backport candidate

functions written in python.

contributed by <frederic.gobry@epfl.ch>

when the member is available on the platform. (Contributed by
Diego Petteno)

Clarify the role of the chars argument in the strip() methods.

[ 1181301 ] make float packing copy bytes when they can

which hasn't been reviewed, despite numerous threats to check it in
anyway if noone reviews it.  Please read the diff on the checkin list,
at least!

The basic idea is to examine the bytes of some 'probe values' to see if
the current platform is a IEEE 754-ish platform, and if so
_PyFloat_{Pack,Unpack}{4,8} just copy bytes around.

The rest is hair for testing, and tests.

Is anyone running the test suite regularly at the moment?

[ 1207501 ] Issue in grammar

We didn't define dotted_name in the pseudo-grammar in the reference
docs.  Backport candidate.

(closes SF bug #1120777)

(closes SF bug #1167922)

278. Closes bug 967182.

A problem regarding importing symlinked modules was recently reported on the
Cygwin mailing list:

    http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-04/msg00257.html

The following test case demonstrates the problem:

$ ls -l
total 1
lrwxrwxrwx    1 jt       None            6 Apr 23 13:32 bar.py -> foo.py
-rw-r--r--    1 jt       None           24 Apr 18 20:13 foo.py

$ python -c 'import bar'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: No module named bar

Since Cygwin's case_ok() uses a modified version of the Windows's version, the
symlinked bar module actually resolves to file foo.py instead of bar.py. This
obviously causes the matching code to fail (regardless of case).

The patch fixes this problem by making Cygwin use the Mac OS X case_ok()
instead of a modified Window's version.

crashing, and indirectly on the fact that hash codes in
random.randrange(1000000000) were very unlikely to exhibit collisions.
To see the problem, replace this number with 500 and observe the crash on
either del target[key] or del keys[i].

The fix prevents recursive mutation, just as in the key insertion case.