Before sys.stderr is set to the proper thing, set it to a really simple
file-like object that can print tracebacks using direct file descriptor I/O.
This is handy for debugging.

Add a closefd flag to open() which can be set to False to prevent closing
the file descriptor when close() is called or when the object is destroyed.
Useful to ensure that sys.std{in,out,err} keep their file descriptors open
when Python is uninitialized.  (This was always a feature in 2.x, it just
wasn't implemented in 3.0 yet.)

This patch corrects test_fileinput on Windows: when redirecting stdout,
os.open should be given O_BINARY, because the file descriptor is then
wrapped in a text-mode file; os.fdopen(fd, "w").

and my own interpretation).
Don't pass the newline= flag to StringIO in SpooledTemporaryFile.
This avoids doubling newlines when the file is rolled over.

errors in test_urllib2net on the MIPS buildbot.

ord()s in Lib/plat-mac/ic.py need to be removed.

are some unicode values used.  I'm not sure if this is the correct
on all operating systems, but this works on Linux w/o unicode.

making it unicode with the default encoding.  I'm not sure if this is
a problem in and of itself.  However, the test seems to be testing
something different, so at least get that working.  Need to revisit
the unicode problem.

Changed bytes.fromhex to take a str argument, as the docstring promises.
Added str8.fromhex (untested so far).

(We should also kill the other PyString_ encode/decode APIs, but they
still have some users.)

about whether it's testing str8 or str...  The stuff that matters is already
tested in test_unicode.py anyway.

Add a bytes iterator (copied from stringobject.c and reindented :-).
I (Guido) added a small change to _abcoll.py to remove the registration
of bytes as a virtual subtype of Iterator -- the presence of __iter__
will handle that now.

Move most of the messiness with truncate() on Windows into _fileio.c.
Still keep the flush() call in io.py though.

is larger than what can fit into a long (4 bytes).  Hopefully this will
fix more problems than it creates.  There are many, many compile warnings
on Win64.  Each of these should be investigated to determine if they
are real problems or not.  Many of these presumably affect the trunk too.

bytes type.

The patch fixes some of the problems on Windows. It doesn't introduce
addition problems on Linux.

The patch fixes the output for profile and cProfile. Another patch from
Alexandre and me added additional calls to the UTF-8 codec.

This patch corrects a problem in test_file.py on Windows:
f.truncate() seeks to the truncation point, but does not empty the
buffers. In the test, f.tell() returns -1...

and os.tmpfile().

Also remove an unnecessary incref/decref for `name'.

(It's still technically broken since the va_args code assumes %x is
an int while we're passing a long, but that's mostly theoretical,
and it's done all over the place.)

issues with <ctype.h> on various platforms.  We no longer use <ctype.h>.

Added unittest for calling a function with paramflags.

Updates to ctypes for python 3.0 to make the tests pass.
Notable changes are:
- return bytes instead of str8
- integers in range(256) are accepted as "one char string":
  libc.strchr("abcdef", 98) is now valid.
- directly use the wide-char version of the win32 function LoadLibrary.

Fix failing unittests for time and strptime on German and probably other
localized Windows installations.