Also fix len() to return number of items rather than length in bytes.

I'm sorry it was not possible for me to work on this without reindenting
a bit some stuff around. The indentation in memoryobject.c is a mess,
I'll open a separate bug for it.

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    r67900 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-22 14:02:45 -0600 (Mon, 22 Dec 2008) | 4 lines

    fix_execfile: wrap the open(fn).read() call in compile(), so the filename is preserved

    also add unittests for the fixer
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    r67901 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-22 14:09:55 -0600 (Mon, 22 Dec 2008) | 1 line

    remove unused import
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    r67919 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-23 13:12:22 -0600 (Tue, 23 Dec 2008) | 1 line

    copy permission bits from the backup to the original
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    r67928 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-26 20:49:30 -0600 (Fri, 26 Dec 2008) | 1 line

    don't be so idiot about multiple local imports in fix_import; still won't handle absolute and local imports on the same line
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    r67984 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-28 09:55:16 -0600 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 1 line

    don't need loop
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    r67991 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-28 14:30:26 -0600 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 1 line

    actually call finish_tree()
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    r67992 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-28 14:34:47 -0600 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 1 line

    remove useless test
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    r67993 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-28 15:04:32 -0600 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 1 line

    update pyk3's test grammar
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    r68106 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-31 11:53:58 -0600 (Wed, 31 Dec 2008) | 1 line

    #2734 don't convert every instance of long (eg if it's an attribute)
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    r68107 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-31 11:55:10 -0600 (Wed, 31 Dec 2008) | 1 line

    add another test
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    r68108 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-31 12:00:12 -0600 (Wed, 31 Dec 2008) | 1 line

    don't change long even if it's the only argument name
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    r68110 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-31 14:13:26 -0600 (Wed, 31 Dec 2008) | 1 line

    remove unused import
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  r68191 | mark.dickinson | 2009-01-03 12:07:20 +0000 (Sat, 03 Jan 2009) | 2 lines

  Issue #4812:  further renaming of internal Decimal constants, for clarity.
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  r68182 | mark.dickinson | 2009-01-02 23:07:08 +0000 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 4 lines

  Issue #4812: add missing underscore prefix to some internal-use-only
  constants in the decimal module.  (Dec_0 becomes _Dec_0, etc.)
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  r68174 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-02 14:47:27 -0600 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  fix compilation on non-Windows platforms
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  r68172 | martin.v.loewis | 2009-01-02 21:32:55 +0100 (Fr, 02 Jan 2009) | 2 lines

  Issue #4075: Use OutputDebugStringW in Py_FatalError.
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  r68173 | martin.v.loewis | 2009-01-02 21:40:14 +0100 (Fr, 02 Jan 2009) | 2 lines

  Issue #4051: Prevent conflict of UNICODE macros in cPickle.
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Minor documentation changes relating to NullHandler, the module used for handlers and references to ConfigParser.

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  r68153 | ronald.oussoren | 2009-01-02 13:59:32 +0100 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 10 lines

  Fix for issue3559: No preferences menu in IDLE on OSX

  1) Add a comment to the help file to that points to the
     preferences menu.

  2) An earlier checkin tried to detect Tk >= 8.10.14,
     but did this in the wrong way. The end result of this
     was that the IDLE->Preferences... menu got surpressed
     when using the system version of Tcl/Tk
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#4747: on Windows, starting a module with a non-ascii filename would print a useless "SyntaxError: None"
when the script contains a "# coding:" declaration.

The Python API expects char* to be utf-8 encoded. wcstombs should be avoided here.

Reviewed by Benjamin. Will backport to 3.0

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  r68134 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2009-01-02 00:45:39 +0900 | 2 lines

  Issue #4797: IOError.filename was not set when _fileio.FileIO failed to open
  file with `str' filename on Windows.
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  r67955 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 19:27:53 +0100 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 3 lines

  Follow-up to r67746 in order to restore backwards-compatibility for
  those who (monkey-)patch TextWrapper.wordsep_re with a custom RE.
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  r67953 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 19:20:04 +0100 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 3 lines

  Patch #4739 by David Laban: add symbols to pydoc help topics,
  so that ``help('@')`` works as expected.
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  r67967 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-27 23:18:58 +0100 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fix markup
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  r67980 | antoine.pitrou | 2008-12-28 15:24:29 +0100 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  wrong version number in doc changes committed in r67979
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  r68128 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-01 15:11:22 +0100 (jeu., 01 janv. 2009) | 3 lines

  Issue #3680: Reference cycles created through a dict, set or deque iterator did not get collected.
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  r68116 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 05:46:51 -0600 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines

  #4100: note that element children are not necessarily present on "start" events.
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  r68117 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 05:53:55 -0600 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines

  #4156: make clear that "protocol" is to be replaced with the protocol name.
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  r68118 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 06:00:19 -0600 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines

  #4185: clarify escape behavior of replacement strings.
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  r68119 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 06:09:40 -0600 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  #4222: document dis.findlabels() and dis.findlinestarts() and
  put them into dis.__all__.
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  r68121 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 06:43:33 -0600 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines

  Point to types module in new module deprecation notice.
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  r68123 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 06:52:29 -0600 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines

  #4784: ... on three counts ...
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  r68124 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 06:53:19 -0600 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines

  #4782: Fix markup error that hid load() and loads().
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  r68125 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 07:02:09 -0600 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines

  #4776: add data_files and package_dir arguments.
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  r68126 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 07:05:13 -0600 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines

  Handlers are in the `logging.handlers` module.
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  r68127 | georg.brandl | 2009-01-01 07:14:49 -0600 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) | 2 lines

  #4767: Use correct submodules for all MIME classes.
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  r67952 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 11:42:40 -0600 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4752: actually use custom handler in example.
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  r67957 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 12:49:19 -0600 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4754: improve winsound documentation.
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  r67958 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 13:02:59 -0600 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4682: 'b' is actually unsigned char.
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  r67960 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 13:04:44 -0600 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4695: fix backslashery.
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  r67961 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 13:06:04 -0600 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Use :samp: role.
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  r67963 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-27 13:11:15 -0600 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4671: document that pydoc imports modules.
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  r67973 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-12-27 20:58:22 -0600 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Document Py_VaBuildValue.
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  r67978 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-28 05:58:49 -0600 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4731: clarify message about missing module prerequisites.
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  r67995 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-28 15:16:07 -0600 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  #4763 PyErr_ExceptionMatches won't blow up with NULL arguments
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  r68030 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-29 15:38:14 -0600 (Mon, 29 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fix French
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  r68057 | vinay.sajip | 2008-12-30 01:01:25 -0600 (Tue, 30 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  Minor documentation change relating to NullHandler.
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  r68061 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-30 04:15:49 -0600 (Tue, 30 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4778: attributes can't be called.
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  r68097 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2008-12-31 14:24:37 +0900 | 1 line

  Fixed compile error on windows.
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  r68099 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2008-12-31 14:47:19 +0900 | 1 line

  Just inserted blank line.
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  r68092 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-30 22:08:55 -0600 (Tue, 30 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fix name collision issues
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  r68089 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-30 21:37:51 -0600 (Tue, 30 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  #4788 qualify some bare except clauses
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  r68081 | tarek.ziade | 2008-12-31 00:03:41 +0100 (Wed, 31 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  Fixed #4702: Throwing DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError under win32 if MSVC is not found
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  r67982 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-28 09:37:31 -0600 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fix WORD_BIGEDIAN declaration in Universal builds; fixes #4060 and #4728
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  r67988 | ronald.oussoren | 2008-12-28 13:40:56 -0600 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  Issue4064: architecture string for universal builds on OSX
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  r67990 | ronald.oussoren | 2008-12-28 13:50:40 -0600 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) | 3 lines

  Update the fix for issue4064 to deal correctly with all three variants of
  universal builds that are presented by the configure script.
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This update makes sure that the installer won't write files
in /usr/local/bin by default. The installer also won't
replace /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Version/Current.

Both to ensure that the installer doens't break an existing
install of python 2.x.

This the build machinery on OSX to re-enable building (and installing)
PythonLauncher.app and IDLE.app.

This needs ports of fixes to Lib/distutils/util.py and Include/pymacconfig.h
to be fully functiontional, to be fully functional.

I also have a patch for Makefile.pre.in that I'll post on bugs.python.org
for review.

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  r68051 | nick.coghlan | 2008-12-30 11:18:48 +1000 (Tue, 30 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  Issue #4701: implicitly call PyType_Ready from PyObject_Hash
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  r68033 | tarek.ziade | 2008-12-29 23:23:53 +0100 (Mon, 29 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fixed #4646 : distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup function.
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the user (unless a different encoding is declared); remove
user configuration of source encoding; all according to
PEP 3120.

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  r68018 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-12-29 19:17:34 +0100 (Mo, 29 Dez 2008) | 2 lines

  Issue #1040026: Fix os.times result on systems where HZ is incorrect.
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  r68016 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-29 11:56:58 -0600 (Mon, 29 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  #4764 in io.open, set IOError.filename when trying to open a directory on POSIX platforms
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