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I've finished the last task for the PCbuild9 directory today. I don't think there is much left to do. Now you can all play around with the shiny new VS 2008 and try the PGO builds. I was able to get a speed improvement of about 10% on py3k.
Have fun! :)

With some changes of my own thrown in (e.g. backport of r58107).

The Windows installer and some Linux distros are using compileall to compile all py files in the Lib/ directory. However no test exists to check if all py files can be compiled. I figured out that make testall is the easiest way to test compileall.

Thanks for the reminder, Brett

newlines; it doesn't.  To rectify this the string returned replaces all
instances of os.linesep with '\n' to fake universal newline support.

Backport candidate.

Solves issue1460.

Might not be a backport candidate: a new API function was added,
and some code may rely on details in utf-7.py.

to /private/tmp.  Adding a call to os.path.realpath() to temp_dir() fixed it.

calling codecs.utf_8_decode() with final==True, which falled with incomplete
byte sequences. Fix and test by James G. Sack.

for them.

Closes issue #1431.  Thanks Giambattista Bloisi for the help.

cycle before the tests...). Sorry.

as usual with slicing (both with str and unicode strings).  This
fixes issue 1259.

For str only the stringobject.c file was modified.  But for unicode,
I needed to repeat in the four functions a lot of code, so created
a new function that does part of the job for them (and placed it in
find.h, following a suggestion of Barry).

Also added tests for this behaviour.

Currently on Windows set_error() make use of a large array which maps
socket error numbers to error messages.

This patch removes that array and just lets PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErr()
generate the message by using the Win32 function FormatMessage().

(suprisingly, this simplifies the signature, improves clarity, and is comparably fast).
Update the docs to reflect a previous change to the function name.
Add an example to the docs showing how to override the default __repr__ method.