First small step towards bgen-generated CoreFoundation. there is hardly any real functionality yet, but method chains seem to work, and so do Retain/Release semantics.

Makes it much easier to find references via dumb editor search (former
"frame" in particular was near-hopeless).

sizeof(int)

mapping objects as an argument.

a non-dictionary mapping object.  Include tests for several expected
failure modes.

"mapping" object, specifically one that supports PyMapping_Keys() and
PyObject_GetItem().  This allows you to say e.g. {}.update(UserDict())

We keep the special case for concrete dict objects, although that
seems moderately questionable.  OTOH, the code exists and works, so
why change that?

.update()'s docstring already claims that D.update(E) implies calling
E.keys() so it's appropriate not to transform AttributeErrors in
PyMapping_Keys() to TypeErrors.

Patch eyeballed by Tim.

wrt surrogates.  (this extends the valid range from 65535 to 1114111)

HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T

unicodeobject.h, which forces sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == sizeof(Py_UCS4).
(this may be good enough for platforms that doesn't have a 16-bit
type.  the UTF-16 codecs don't work, though)

sizeof(Py_UNICODE) >= sizeof(long).  also changed surrogate expansion
to work if sizeof(Py_UNICODE) > 2.

HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T

package to be loaded from a PYD resource.

Not anymore <wink>.  Pure hack.  Doesn't fix any other "if 0:" glitches.

Iterators list for bringing it up!

Return self.trace_dispatch from dispatch_return() to enable stepping through generators. (An alternative would be to create a new "yield" debugger event, but that involves many more changes, and might break Bdb subclasses.)

Add a temporary driver to help track down remaining leak(s).

clearing a shallow copy _run_examples() makes itself can't hurt anything.

break cycles, which are a special problem when running generator tests
that provoke exceptions by invoking the .next() method of a named
generator-iterator:  then the iterator is named in globs, and the
iterator's frame gets a tracekback object pointing back to globs, and
gc doesn't chase these types so the cycle leaks.

Also changed _run_examples() to make a copy of globs itself, so its
callers (direct and indirect) don't have to (and changed the callers
to stop making their own copies); *that* much is a change I've been
meaning to make for a long time (it's more robust the new way).

Here's a way to provoke the symptom without doctest; it leaks at a
prodigious rate; if the last two "source" lines are replaced with
    g().next()
the iterator isn't named and then there's no leak:

source = """\
def g():
    yield 1/0

k = g()
k.next()
"""

code = compile(source, "<source>", "exec")

def f(globs):
    try:
        exec code in globs
    except ZeroDivisionError:
        pass

while 1:
    f(globals().copy())

After this change, running test_generators in an infinite loop still leaks,
but reduced from a flood to a trickle.

example (an obvious trackback cycle).  Repaired.
Bugfix candidate.

of other tests.

because it picks up the first line of traceback.format_exception_only()
instead of the last line.  Pick up the last line instead!

Good news:  Some of this stuff is pretty sophisticated (read nuts), and
I haven't bumped into a bug yet.
Bad news:  If I run the doctest in an infinite loop, memory is clearly
leaking.

because I need to make progress and don't have time now to think about
whatever it is the new code is trying to accomplish.

but it's a heck of a good generator exerciser (think about it <wink>).