its tests

The test_classify_oldstyle and test_classify_newstyle methods of
test.test_inspect.TestClassesAndFunctions were previously almost
identical (aside from irrelevant whitespace and one semantic
difference).  They now share a single helper.

Fixes issue #8363.

Try to turn some buildbots green by allowing test_multiprocessing to pass even if it hits the sys.exc_clear code in the threading module, and improve the test coverage by making the ctypes dependencies a bit more granular (two of the cited ctypes objects don't exist on my system)

with earlier versions.

1) A non-critical off-by-one error in pythonw

2) A problem in the configure script that caused
   builds with '--enable-framework --enable-universalsdk=/'
   to fail on OSX 10.6.

Switch regrtest to use StringIO instead of cStringIO for test_multiprocessing on Windows. Issue 8333.

unittest.result.TestResult does not create its buffers until they're used. It uses StringIO not cStringIO. Issue 8333.

also the case in FreeBSD's port of libffi).

Reviewed by: dickinsm

in the hope of getting more information about the test_ctypes failures
on Sparc (see issue #8314).

command line option
patch from Brian Curtin