http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-March/071796.html .

I've kept a couple of still-valid extra tests in test_descr, but didn't
bother to sort through the new comments and refactorings added in r53997
to see if some of them could be kept.  If so, they could go in a
follow-up check-in.

setting a plain string, ie don't expand to single letter identifiers.

is built before '_ctypes' is attempted.
Will backport to 2.5 once it is unfrozen for 2.5.1.

Fix a bug when using the __lltrace__ opcode tracer, and a problem sith signed chars in frameobject.c which can occur with opcodes > 127

Add code to read from master_fd in the parent, breaking when we get an OSError
(EIO can occur on Linux) or there's no more data to read.  Without this,
test_pty.py can hang on the waitpid() because the child is blocking on the
stdout write.  This will definitely happen on Mac OS X and could potentially
happen on other platforms.  See the comment for details.

first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was longer than 3 bytes.

again.

Found by Victor Stinner. Will backport when 2.5 branch is unfrozen.

Exceptions now are raised in the new style. And a mockup class is
now also new style. Thanks Santiago Pereson.

on Windows buildbots.  The change is a one time fix and will be removed
after a successful buildbot run.

'w'.  Closes bug #1569057.

To be backported once 2.5 branch is unfrozen.

MakedirTests.setUp() can now be removed.