Since test_file is implicated in mysterious test failures
when followed by test_optparse, if I had any brains I'd
look at the checkin that last changed test_file ;-)

the char buffer was requested.  Now it actually returns the char buffer if
available or raises a TypeError if it isn't (as is raised for the other buffer
types if they are not present but requested).

Not a backport candidate since it does change semantics of the buffer object
(although it could be argued this is enough of a bug to bother backporting).

match its documentation stating it accepts any read-only buffer.

latter can return something that's true.

Actually, checking for INT_MAX and INT_MIN is correct since
the format code explicitly handles a C "int".

Give a consistent behavior for comparison and hashing of method objects
(both user- and built-in methods).  Now compares the 'self' recursively.
The hash was already asking for the hash of 'self'.

  DBDeadLockError exception.
* add the test case for my previous dbtables commit.

  aborts the db transaction safely when a modifier callback fails.
  Fixes SF python patch/bug #1408584.

Also cleans up the bsddb.dbtables docstrings since thats the only
documentation that exists for that unadvertised module.  (people
really should really just use sqlite3)

endian machines.  Should fix the remaininf failure in the PPC64
Debian buildbot.

Thanks to Matthias Klose for providing access to a machine to debug
and test this.

  sys.exutable that isn't usuable on an #!-line. That results in generated
  applets that don't actually work. Work around this problem by resetting
  sys.executable.
* argvemulator.py didn't work on intel macs. This patch fixes this
  (bug #1491468)

of relying on a maintainer to update them before releases.
- Remove the now empty Mac/OSX directory

from ?iga Seilnacht (sorry about the name, but Firefox
on my box can't display the first character of the name --
the SF "Unix name" is zseil).

This appears to cure the oddball intermittent leaks across
runs when running test_exceptions under -R.  I'm not sure
why, but I'm too sleepy to care ;-)

The thrust of the SF patch was to remove randomness in the
pickle protocol used.  I changed the patch to use
range(pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL + 1), to try both pickle and
cPickle, and randomly mucked with other test lines to put
statements on their own lines.

Not a bugfix candidate (this is fiddling new-in-2.5 code).

different results across -R runs (at least on Windows) of
test_filecmp.

configuration files during a framework install.

  with --enable-framework
* Also for --enable-framework: allow users to use --prefix to specify
  the location of the compatibility symlinks (such as /usr/local/bin/python)

This fixes the callback function tests that return float.

big endian platforms.