Replace it with PyUnicode_AsString when the argument is known to be a str.

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  r59106 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-11-21 16:55:51 -0800 (Wed, 21 Nov 2007) | 3 lines

  Backport of _abccoll.py by Benjamin Arangueren, issue 1383.
  With some changes of my own thrown in (e.g. backport of r58107).
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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r59078 | brett.cannon | 2007-11-20 16:16:20 -0800 (Tue, 20 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Remove a unneeded line that had typos.
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  r59081 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-20 16:46:21 -0800 (Tue, 20 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Fixed #1372: zlibmodule.c: int overflow in PyZlib_decompress
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  r59082 | brett.cannon | 2007-11-20 16:47:36 -0800 (Tue, 20 Nov 2007) | 6 lines

  doctest assumed that a package's __loader__.get_data() method used universal
  newlines; it doesn't.  To rectify this the string returned replaces all
  instances of os.linesep with '\n' to fake universal newline support.

  Backport candidate.
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  r59084 | brett.cannon | 2007-11-20 16:58:03 -0800 (Tue, 20 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Add a missing check before deleting a package's __loader__.
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  r59088 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-20 17:17:28 -0800 (Tue, 20 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Added NEWS entry
  Thanks for the reminder, Brett
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  r59089 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2007-11-20 17:38:26 -0800 (Tue, 20 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Add a NEWS entry for r59076.
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  r59091 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-20 18:50:06 -0800 (Tue, 20 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Final fix for #1403
  The Windows installer and some Linux distros are using compileall to compile all py files in the Lib/ directory. However no test exists to check if all py files can be compiled. I figured out that make testall is the easiest way to test compileall.
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There's no ABC for "PEP 3118 style buffer API objects" because there's no
way to recognize these in Python (apart from trying to use memoryview()
on them).
Note that array.array really should be registered as a MutableSequence
but that would require importing it whenever collections is imported.

For example, MessageBox takes char* parameters.
If you want to pass unicode strings, use MessageBoxW explicitely.

(not bytearray) on output.  Discovered a bunch of places that were still
depending on it accepting text strings.

Clean up trailing whitespace.

a dict argument now.

> The Windows installer and some Linux distros are using compileall to compile all py files in the Lib/ directory. However no test exists to check if all py files can be compiled. I figured out that make testall is the easiest way to test compileall.
For py3k unit tests do some extra checks with -bb.

Removed more project configs in order to use the defaults defined in the property files. The 'sed' tool was more than helpful for the job.

The sentinel in the methods struct was missing

pythoncore.vcproj fails to generate buildinfo (when spaces in path)

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r59064 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-20 02:48:48 +0100 (Tue, 20 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Fixed bug #1470
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  r59066 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-11-20 03:46:02 +0100 (Tue, 20 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Patch #1468: Package Lib/test/*.pem.
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  r59068 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-20 04:21:02 +0100 (Tue, 20 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Another fix for test_shutil. Martin pointed out that it breaks some build bots
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  r59073 | nick.coghlan | 2007-11-20 15:55:57 +0100 (Tue, 20 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Backport some main.c cleanup from the py3k branch
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  r59076 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2007-11-21 00:31:27 +0100 (Wed, 21 Nov 2007) | 6 lines

  The incremental decoder for utf-7 must preserve its state between calls.
  Solves issue1460.

  Might not be a backport candidate: a new API function was added,
  and some code may rely on details in utf-7.py.
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Added debug builds to make_versioninfo
Removed some more defines

HTML output. I've now fixed this as best I can (but could do with
improvement).

Note that there are two terms used, "Other_ID_Start" and
"Other_ID_Continue" that are not explained; I've added an extra see
reference to PEP 3131 though.

I've removed a bunch of obsolete defines. I've also taken the opportunity to fix the pre-link event of sqlite3 and some optimization flags.

py3k unit tests are removing %TEMP% dir on Windows
os.removedirs removes all parent directories until it hits a non empty directory. In my case my %TEMP% directory was clean and empty.

in issue1395. All other places in this file already use newline=''...

Also check that csv.reader is given an iterable returning strings.

Some incremental decoders return multiple characters, even when fed with
only one more byte. In this case the tell() state must subtract the
number of extra characters.

"Universal newline" is now an incremental decoder wrapping the initial one,
with its own additional buffer (if '\r' is seen at the end of the input).

A decoder allows the tell() funtion to record the state of the translation.
This also simplifies the readline() process.

Now test_netrc passes on Windows, as well as many new tests in test_io.py

a bytes string to hold argv0 in RunMainFromImporter().
Also changed the code lay-out a bit to be more readable (for me :-),
and print any unexpected errors rather than suppressing them.

Fixed build order of the _ssl project. The openssl project needs to come first because the makefile puts the header files in the right place.
Added some optimization flags to the Release builds of pythoncore and the executables.

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r59044 | neal.norwitz | 2007-11-18 17:46:20 -0800 (Sun, 18 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Use a slightly more recent version than 1.5.2b2.
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  r59047 | walter.doerwald | 2007-11-19 04:14:05 -0800 (Mon, 19 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix typo in comment.
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  r59049 | walter.doerwald | 2007-11-19 04:41:10 -0800 (Mon, 19 Nov 2007) | 4 lines

  Fix for #1444: utf_8_sig.StreamReader was (indirectly through decode())
  calling codecs.utf_8_decode() with final==True, which falled with incomplete
  byte sequences. Fix and test by James G. Sack.
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  r59051 | nick.coghlan | 2007-11-19 05:56:27 -0800 (Mon, 19 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Enable some test_cmd_line_script debugging output to investigate failure on Mac OSX buildbot
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  r59053 | facundo.batista | 2007-11-19 08:30:24 -0800 (Mon, 19 Nov 2007) | 3 lines


  Fixed detail in add_type() explanation (issue 1463).
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  r59054 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-11-19 09:35:24 -0800 (Mon, 19 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Make this work stand-alone, too.
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  r59055 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-11-19 09:50:22 -0800 (Mon, 19 Nov 2007) | 3 lines

  Fix the OSX failures in this test -- they were due to /tmp being a symlink
  to /private/tmp.  Adding a call to os.path.realpath() to temp_dir() fixed it.
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(No, this doesn't fix the bugs on OSX.)

I've spend some time to automate more steps of the build process. Now bzip2, bsddb, sqlite and openssl are automatically build by prelink steps.
I had to use some tricks to build openssl for 32 and 64bit CPUs in two separate build dirs.

as they didn't actually work.

Removed ReleaseAMD64 and replaced it with platform x64. The x64 builds fine except of the modules that depend on external libraries like tkinter and openssl. And I can't test the build on my 32bit CPU.

I'm using the xxmodule and xxsubtype to test the msvccompiler on Windows. I'm having trouble to compile the module with VS 2008 cl.exe because "initializer is not a constant".