Fixes issue #4429.

Reviewed by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.

Reviewed by Brett Cannon.

former they are converted to bytes before being written to the DB.

Closes issue 3799. Reviewed by Skip Montanaro.

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  r67376 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-24 22:07:45 -0600 (Mon, 24 Nov 2008) | 17 lines

  Merged revisions 67183,67191,67371 via svnmerge from
  svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/sandbox/trunk/2to3/lib2to3

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    r67183 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-10 21:51:33 -0600 (Mon, 10 Nov 2008) | 1 line

    handle 'import x as y' in fix_imports; this still needs more work...
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    r67191 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-11 17:24:51 -0600 (Tue, 11 Nov 2008) | 1 line

    super() is good
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    r67371 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-24 16:02:00 -0600 (Mon, 24 Nov 2008) | 1 line

    don't blow up in the metaclass fixer when assignments in the class statement aren't simple
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  r67373 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-24 21:43:14 -0600 (Mon, 24 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  always check the return value of NEW_IDENTIFIER
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  r67183 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-11 04:51:33 +0100 (Di, 11 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  handle 'import x as y' in fix_imports; this still needs more work...
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  r67191 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-12 00:24:51 +0100 (Mi, 12 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  super() is good
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  r67371 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-24 23:02:00 +0100 (Mo, 24 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  don't blow up in the metaclass fixer when assignments in the class statement aren't simple
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at least OS X where the default is macroman.

Closes issue #4382.

mention that it will become the default in a future python version.

- Modules/Setup.dist: Mention _functools in section "Modules that should
  always be present (non UNIX dependent)"

I don't know if it actually works with unicode, though...

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  r67295 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-20 05:05:12 +0100 (jeu., 20 nov. 2008) | 1 line

  move useful sys.settrace information to the function's documentation from the debugger
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  r67301 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-20 22:25:31 +0100 (jeu., 20 nov. 2008) | 1 line

  fix indentation and a sphinx warning
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  r67302 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-20 22:44:23 +0100 (jeu., 20 nov. 2008) | 1 line

  oops! didn't mean to disable that test
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  r67318 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-11-21 23:05:48 +0100 (ven., 21 nov. 2008) | 4 lines

  #4363: Let uuid.uuid1() and uuid.uuid4() run even if the ctypes module is not present.

  Will backport to 2.6
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  r67330 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-22 09:34:14 +0100 (sam., 22 nov. 2008) | 2 lines

  #4364: fix attribute name on ctypes object.
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  r67342 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-11-22 20:39:38 +0100 (sam., 22 nov. 2008) | 3 lines

  yuvconvert.c is a part of the "sv" module, an old IRIX thing
  and certainly not useful for any Windows build.
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  r67343 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-11-22 21:01:18 +0100 (sam., 22 nov. 2008) | 5 lines

  #3996: On Windows, PyOS_CheckStack is supposed to protect the interpreter from
  stack overflow. But doing this, it always crashes when the stack is nearly full.

  Reviewed by Martin von Loewis. Will backport to 2.6.
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  r67307 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-11-20 17:34:31 -0600 (Thu, 20 Nov 2008) | 9 lines

  Fixed issue #4233.
  Changed semantic of _fileio.FileIO's close()  method on file objects with closefd=False.
  The file descriptor is still kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file.
  The FileIO  object also got a new readonly attribute closefd.

  Approved by Barry

  Backport of r67106 from the py3k branch
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  r67336 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-22 11:08:50 +0100 (Sat, 22 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix error about "-*-" being mandatory in coding cookies.
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  r67332 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-22 09:45:33 +0100 (Sat, 22 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix typo.
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  r67326 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-21 19:59:15 -0600 (Fri, 21 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  backport r67325: make FileIO.mode always contain 'b'
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#4386 Reviewed by Amaury

Python 3.0 clears the exception variable upon exit of the "except:" clause,
and the displaying code fails miserably.

Reviewed by Benjamin.

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  r67320 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-21 16:27:24 -0600 (Fri, 21 Nov 2008) | 4 lines

  don't segfault when \N escapes are used and unicodedata fails to load

  Fixes #4367
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Much, much more. :-)