Formerly, the length was only fetched from sequence objects.
Now, any object that reports its length can benefit from pre-sizing.

Formerly, the length was only fetched from sequence objects.
Now, any object that reports its length can benefit from pre-sizing.

Formerly, length data fetched from sequence objects.
Now, any object that reports its length can benefit from pre-sizing.

On one sample timing, it gave a threefold speedup for list(s) where s
was a set object.

Make timings more consistent by temporarily disabling GC.

again.  Removed the following subprojects and folded them into pythoncore,
to match what's being done under VC7.  We *can* build the core DLL
under VC6 again after this:

datetime.dsp
winreg.dsp
parser.dsp
_sre.dsp
_csv.dsp
mmap.dsp
_symtable.dsp

encoding and decoding, including optional case folding and optional
alternative alphabets.

still far away, but a lot closer than it was.

loops to run (default remains 50,000 if no argument is specified).

   than are specified by the buffer size.  The patch calls .__write()
   to ensure that any full blocks are written out.

  restarted.  IDLEfork Patch 869012 Noam Raphael

Modified Files:
	NEWS.txt run.py

Remove applications of rsplit() and random numbers
Typo fixes; minor tweaks

- rearranged a bit to avoid duplicated information
- provide more complete (and hopefully less confusing) descriptions of
  the return values for most of these functions
  (close SF bug #563298)

closes SF bug #820344

closes SF bug #825810