Rather than sprinkle casts throughout the code, change Py_CHARMASK to
always cast it's result to an unsigned char.  This should ensure we
do the right thing when accessing an array with the result.

up after it was joined had a traceback pointing to that thread's (deleted)
target attribute, while the test was trying to check that the target was
destroyed. Big thanks to Antoine Pitrou for diagnosing the race and pointing
out sys.exc_clear() to kill the exception early. This fixes issue 2496.

"" "" => """", which is invalid code.

Will backport

The tokenize module doesn't understand __future__.unicode_literals yet

 and some string concatenations.
Removed unneeded __future__ print_function import.

since char is signed on some platforms and unsigned on others.

(Also remove some #if 0 code that is already handled in _getbytevalue.)

use basestring instead of str in Python 2.x

The new PyParser_*Ex() functions are based on Neal's suggestion and initial patch. The new __future__ feature makes all '' and r'' unicode strings. b'' and br'' stay (byte) strings.

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/trunk-bytearray

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/libffi3-branch

Merged revisions 61750,61752,61754,61756,61760,61763,61768,61772,61775,61805,61809,61812,61819,61917,61920,61930,61933-61934 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/trunk-bytearray

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  r61750 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-22 20:47:44 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Copied files from py3k w/o modifications
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  r61752 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-22 20:53:20 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 7 lines

  Take One
  * Added initialization code, warnings, flags etc. to the appropriate places
  * Added new buffer interface to string type
  * Modified tests
  * Modified Makefile.pre.in to compile the new files
  * Added bytesobject.c to Python.h
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  r61754 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-22 21:22:19 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Disabled bytearray.extend for now since it causes an infinite recursion
  Fixed serveral unit tests
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  r61756 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-22 21:43:38 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 5 lines

  Added PyBytes support to several places:
  str + bytearray
  ord(bytearray)
  bytearray(str, encoding)
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  r61760 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-22 21:56:32 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Fixed more unit tests related to type('') is not unicode
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  r61763 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-22 22:20:28 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Fixed more unit tests
  Fixed bytearray.extend
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  r61768 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-22 22:40:50 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Implemented old buffer interface for bytearray
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  r61772 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-22 23:24:52 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Added backport of the io module
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  r61775 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-23 03:50:49 +0100 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Fix str assignement to bytearray. Assignment of a str of size 1 is interpreted as a single byte
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  r61805 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-23 19:33:48 +0100 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) | 3 lines

  Fixed more tests
  Fixed bytearray() comparsion with unicode()
  Fixed iterator assignment of bytearray
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  r61809 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-23 21:02:21 +0100 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  str(bytesarray()) now returns the bytes and not the representation of the bytearray object
  Enabled and fixed more unit tests
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  r61812 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-23 21:53:08 +0100 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) | 3 lines

  Clear error PyNumber_AsSsize_t() fails
  Use CHARMASK for ob_svall access
  disabled a test with memoryview again
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  r61819 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-23 23:05:57 +0100 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Untested updates to the PCBuild directory
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  r61917 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-26 00:57:06 +0100 (Wed, 26 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  The type system of Python 2.6 has subtle differences to 3.0's. I've removed the Py_TPFLAGS_BASETYPE flags from bytearray for now. bytearray can't be subclasses until the issues with bytearray subclasses are fixed.
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  r61920 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-26 01:44:08 +0100 (Wed, 26 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Disabled last failing test
  I don't understand what the test is testing and how it suppose to work. Ka-Ping, please check it out.
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  r61930 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-26 12:46:18 +0100 (Wed, 26 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Re-enabled bytes warning code
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  r61933 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-26 13:20:46 +0100 (Wed, 26 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Fixed a bug in the new buffer protocol. The buffer slots weren't copied into a subclass.
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  r61934 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-26 13:25:09 +0100 (Wed, 26 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Re-enabled bytearray subclassing - all tests are passing.
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an open file.  This doesn't seem to be a problem in 2.6, but that appears
to be somewhat accidental (specific to reference counting).  When this
gets merged to 3.0, it will make the 3.0 code simpler.