rewrite float.fromhex to only allow ASCII hex digits on all platforms.
(Tests for this are already present, but the test_float failures
on Solaris hadn't been noticed before.)

Reviewed by Antoine Pitrou.

change is aimed at diagnosing issue 3633 (test_float fails on Solaris).

Reviewed by Benjamin Peterson

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/sandbox/trunk/2to3/lib2to3

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  r65876 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-08-19 15:54:52 -0500 (Tue, 19 Aug 2008) | 1 line

  apply a fix I think will help Windows
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Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT when not building the core.

that are COM methods must have a boolean True value.

issue3352: clean up the multiprocessing API to remove many get_/set_ methods and convert them to properties. Update the docs and the examples included.

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/sandbox/trunk/2to3/lib2to3

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  r65853 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-08-19 11:09:09 -0500 (Tue, 19 Aug 2008) | 1 line

  apply a patch for #3131. this solves the problem for the moment, but we should do some refactoring to get display logic out of RefactoringTool
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  r65854 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-08-19 11:37:38 -0500 (Tue, 19 Aug 2008) | 1 line

  another quick fix to get lib2to3 to work
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they will still live in 3.0 but it can't hurt

Be less strict when parsing these version numbers,
they don't necessarily follow the python numbering scheme.

This is new in 2.6 so now need to worry about backwards compatibility :)