FreeBSD 7's underlying malloc() is behaves differently to earlier versions
and seriously overcommits available memory on amd64.  This may affect
other 64bit platforms in some circumstances, so the scale of the
problematic test is wound back.

Patch by Mark Dickinson, reviewed by Martin von Loewis.

calling fork() from a child thread.  This disables that unit test (with a note
printed to stderr) on those platforms.

A caveat about buggy platforms is added to the os.fork documentation.

Fix suggested by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
Closes issue #4003.

reviewed by Amaury

patch by Victor Stinner
reviewed by myself and Brett

true singleton object.

Reviewed by Gregor Lingl.

timer that did not return a float and a timer was still running when the
Profiler object was garbage collected.

Fixes issue 3895.
Code review by Benjamin Peterson.

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

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  r66511 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-09-18 21:49:27 -0500 (Thu, 18 Sep 2008) | 1 line

  remove a  useless if __name__ == '__main__'
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  r66548 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-09-21 21:14:14 -0500 (Sun, 21 Sep 2008) | 1 line

  avoid the perils of mutable default arguments
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  r66549 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-09-21 21:26:11 -0500 (Sun, 21 Sep 2008) | 1 line

  some places in RefactoringTool should raise an error instead of logging it
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  r66644 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-09-27 10:45:10 -0500 (Sat, 27 Sep 2008) | 1 line

  fix doctest refactoring
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  r66646 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-09-27 11:40:13 -0500 (Sat, 27 Sep 2008) | 1 line

  don't print to stdout when 2to3 is used as a library
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  r66647 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-09-27 12:28:28 -0500 (Sat, 27 Sep 2008) | 1 line

  let fixer modules and classes have different prefixes
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  r66648 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-09-27 14:02:13 -0500 (Sat, 27 Sep 2008) | 1 line

  raise errors when 2to3 is used as a library
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  r66649 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-09-27 14:03:38 -0500 (Sat, 27 Sep 2008) | 1 line

  fix docstring
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  r66650 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-09-27 14:22:21 -0500 (Sat, 27 Sep 2008) | 1 line

  make use of enumerate
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  r66651 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-09-27 14:24:13 -0500 (Sat, 27 Sep 2008) | 1 line

  revert last revision; it breaks things
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  r66652 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-09-27 16:03:06 -0500 (Sat, 27 Sep 2008) | 1 line

  add tests for lib2to3.refactor
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A asyncore based mock ftp server is used to test the protocol.
This is all thanks to Giampaolo Rodola #3939

(Barry gave me permission to do this before final on IRC.)

For example:
   "".count("xxxx", sys.maxint, 0)

Reviewed by Benjamin Peterson.
Will port to 2.5 and 3.0.

Fix namedtuple bug reported by Glenn Linderman.  Template did not form correctly if the field names were input in Unicode.

and if the filename is a unicode string.

Reviewed by Martin von Loewis.

reviewers: Georg, Benjamin