It is out of date, though, thanks to lacking info on the arena API.  It also
should eventually be removed in favor of updating PEP 339.

Will port to Python 2.4.

Based on lsprof (patch #1212837) by Brett Rosen and Ted Czotter.
With further editing by Michael Hudson and myself.
History in svn repo: http://codespeak.net/svn/user/arigo/hack/misc/lsprof

* Module/_lsprof.c is the internal C module, Lib/cProfile.py a wrapper.
* pstats.py updated to display cProfile's caller/callee timings if available.
* setup.py and NEWS updated.
* documentation updates in the profiler section:
   - explain the differences between the three profilers that we have now
   - profile and cProfile can use a unified documentation, like (c)Pickle
   - mention that hotshot is "for specialized usage" now
   - removed references to the "old profiler" that no longer exists
* test updates:
   - extended test_profile to cover delicate cases like recursion
   - added tests for the caller/callee displays
   - added test_cProfile, performing the same tests for cProfile
* TO-DO:
   - cProfile gives a nicer name to built-in, particularly built-in methods,
     which could be backported to profile.
   - not tested on Windows recently!

- Call tp_dealloc on the static baseclass, not dynamic (which leads to
  infinite loops with more than one baseclass)
- Call tp_new and tp_init on baseclasses (overridable)
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is larger than FD_SETSIZE.

This can only be acheived with ulimit -n SOME_NUMBER_BIGGER_THAN_FD_SETSIZE
which is typically only available to root.  Since this wouldn't normally
be run in a test (ie, run as root), it doesn't seem too worthwhile to
add a normal test.  The bug report has one version of a test.  I've
written another.  Not sure what the best thing to do is.

Do the check before calling internal_select() because we can't set
an error in between Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS and Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS.
This seemed the clearest solution, ie handle before calling internal_select()
rather than inside.  Plus there is at least one place outside
of internal_select() that needed to be handled.

Will backport.

Not sure why/how _handlers/_handlerList is out of sync.  This could
indicate a deeper problem.

In test_logging, the only absolutely necessary change to get working
was tcpserver.abort = 1.  But we don't want to wait infinitely
to join the threads, so give a 2.0 second timeout.

There doesn't appear to be a need for a local abort variable
in serve_until_stopped, so just use the instance member.

Note the problem is only on HEAD, not in 2.4.

on both Unix (SVR4 and BSD) and Windows.  Restores behaviour of passing -1
for anonymous memory on Unix.  Use MAP_ANONYMOUS instead of _ANON since
the latter is deprecated according to Linux (gentoo) man pages.

Should we continue to allow mmap.mmap(0, length) to work on Windows?
0 is a valid fd.

Will backport bugfix portions.

Port from Python 2.3/email 2.5: Add a test for the tm_yday field is 1 in the
return of parsedate().

fixed typo in language reference

to protect against actual uninitialized usage.

Objects/longobject.c: In function ‘PyLong_AsDouble’:
Objects/longobject.c:655: warning: ‘e’ may be used uninitialized in this function

Objects/longobject.c: In function ‘long_true_divide’:
Objects/longobject.c:2263: warning: ‘aexp’ may be used uninitialized in this function
Objects/longobject.c:2263: warning: ‘bexp’ may be used uninitialized in this function

touch the recursion limit. The applied patch inlines the recursive
__helper method in a non-recursive way.

is ok for a standalone pybsddb source dist for use with <= 2.3.

as python builtin bsddb.

#811160 in a different way.

tty opened by os.openpty() isn't always a tty according to os.isatty(), when
it's tested inside the process that opened it. Doesn't affect actual
functionality, as using a tty this way is rarely, if ever, useful. Ignoring
the failure allows the test for actual functionality to continue.

Will backport to 2.4-maint.

Expand set of errors caught in set_context().  Some new errors, some
old error messages changed for consistency.

Fixed error checking in generator expression code.  The first set of
tests were impossible condition given the grammar.  In general, the
ast code uses REQ() for those sanity checks.

Fix some error handling for augmented assignments.  As comments in the
code explain, set_context() ought to work here, but I got unexpected
crashes when I tried it.  Should come back to this.

Add note to Grammar that yield expression is a special case.

Add doctest cases for SyntaxErrors raised by ast.c.

(test cases and dbobj wrapping)

by Matt Messier).

before the listener was ready (on gentoo x86 buildslave).  This
caused the listener to not exit normally since nobody connected to it
(waited in accept()).  The exception was raised in the other thread
and the test failed.

This fix doesn't completely eliminate the race, but should make it
near impossible to trigger.  Hopefully it's good enough.