pass on Windows.

(2) Fix a typo in makefile() where using a text mode would attempt to set
    self.mode instead of text.mode.

(Sigh. There are so many redundant tests.)

SF patch# 1755176 by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.

Remove the encoding from Tix.py (it doesn't seem to need one).
Note: we still have to keep the "coding: utf-8" declaration
for files that aren't pure ASCII, as the default per PEP 3120
hasn't been implemented yet.

(This is not the fix suggested by Hasan Diwan in SF patch# 1753889.)

into uu.py.  (This is *not* SF patch 1754339, which I rejected.)

(There are more places that don't close 'f' at all if an error occurs,
but none have a bogus try/finally pattern.)

Fixes to make test_mmap.py pass unit tests.
Moves the interface from being string based to being bytes based.

The domain of chr() and the range of ord() are now always [0 ... 0x10FFFF].

the trunk is merged.

their value now as str, no longer str8.

Accept bytes instead of str8 in the (unexposed in ctypes) BSTR type.

version is not compatible with Python 2.x anymore).
Remove backwards compatibility code.

version is not compatible with Python 2.x anymore).
Remove backwards compatibility code.

(unicode) string.

remove the 'crash-protection'.

before we can pass it to re.sub.

test by default.

These are passed as byte strings (unicode strings are passed as wide
character strings).

ctypes.create_unicode_buffer also accepts bytes now.

Revert some tests in test_unicode: Since string literals are unicode
now, conversion takes place when byte literals are passed as unicode
parameters.

PyStringObject before).