Merged revisions 70768,71657,71721,71729,71794,71976,72036-72037,72079,72085,72131-72134,72191,72197-72198,72219,72221,72225,72303,72434,72467,72476 via svnmerge from

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r70768 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-03-30 17:29:15 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 1 line

  Typo fixes
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  r71657 | vinay.sajip | 2009-04-16 14:07:37 -0500 (Thu, 16 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Issue #5768: Change to Unicode output logic and test case for same.
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  r71721 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-04-18 14:26:19 -0500 (Sat, 18 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  fix a few nits in unittest.py #5771
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  r71729 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-04-18 16:03:10 -0500 (Sat, 18 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  move test to a more appropiate one
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  r71794 | vinay.sajip | 2009-04-22 07:10:47 -0500 (Wed, 22 Apr 2009) | 2 lines

  Issue #5170: Fixed regression caused when fixing #5768.
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  r71976 | mark.dickinson | 2009-04-26 14:54:55 -0500 (Sun, 26 Apr 2009) | 2 lines

  Fix typo in function name
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  r72036 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-27 12:04:23 -0500 (Mon, 27 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  #5848: small unittest doc patch.
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  r72037 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-27 12:09:53 -0500 (Mon, 27 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  #5840: dont claim we dont support TLS.
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  r72079 | r.david.murray | 2009-04-28 14:02:55 -0500 (Tue, 28 Apr 2009) | 2 lines

  Remove spurious 'u'.
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  r72085 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-28 16:48:35 -0500 (Tue, 28 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Make the doctests in the docs pass, except for those in the turtle module.
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  r72131 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-04-29 17:43:35 -0500 (Wed, 29 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  fix test_shutil on ZFS #5676
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  r72132 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-29 17:44:07 -0500 (Wed, 29 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  #5878: fix repr of re object.
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  r72133 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-04-29 17:44:15 -0500 (Wed, 29 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  make sure mode is removable while cleaning up test droppings
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  r72134 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-04-29 19:06:33 -0500 (Wed, 29 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  make sure to close file
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  r72191 | michael.foord | 2009-05-02 06:43:06 -0500 (Sat, 02 May 2009) | 9 lines

  Adds an exit parameter to unittest.main(). If False main no longer
  calls sys.exit.

  Closes issue 3379.

  Michael Foord

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  r72197 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-05-02 11:24:37 -0500 (Sat, 02 May 2009) | 1 line

  don't let sys.argv be used in the tests
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  r72198 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-05-02 12:12:15 -0500 (Sat, 02 May 2009) | 1 line

  Add items
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  r72219 | michael.foord | 2009-05-02 15:15:05 -0500 (Sat, 02 May 2009) | 8 lines

  Add addCleanup and doCleanups to unittest.TestCase.

  Closes issue 5679.

  Michael Foord
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  r72221 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-05-02 15:26:53 -0500 (Sat, 02 May 2009) | 1 line

  add myself
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  r72225 | michael.foord | 2009-05-02 17:43:34 -0500 (Sat, 02 May 2009) | 1 line
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  r72303 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-05-04 19:55:24 -0500 (Mon, 04 May 2009) | 1 line

  using sys._getframe(x), where x > 0 doesnt' work on IronPython
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  r72434 | r.david.murray | 2009-05-07 13:09:58 -0500 (Thu, 07 May 2009) | 2 lines

  Pre-opened test file needs to be opened in binary mode.
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  r72467 | georg.brandl | 2009-05-08 07:17:34 -0500 (Fri, 08 May 2009) | 1 line

  Fix name.
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  r72476 | thomas.heller | 2009-05-08 15:09:40 -0500 (Fri, 08 May 2009) | 4 lines

  Add a file that contains diffs between offical libffi files and the
  files in this repository.  Should make it easier to merge new libffi
  versions.
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1 files changed, 73 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
index f7dab79..9182c453 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
@@ -121,6 +121,31 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
 
   (Contributed by Fredrik Johansson and Victor Stinner; :issue:`3439`.)
 
+* Conversions from long integers and regular integers to floating
+  point now round differently, returning the floating-point number
+  closest to the number.  This doesn't matter for small integers that
+  can be converted exactly, but for large numbers that will
+  unavoidably lose precision, Python 2.7 will now approximate more
+  closely.  For example, Python 2.6 computed the following::
+
+    >>> n = 295147905179352891391
+    >>> float(n)
+    2.9514790517935283e+20
+    >>> n - long(float(n))
+    65535L
+
+  Python 2.7's floating-point result is larger, but much closer to the
+  true value::
+
+    >>> n = 295147905179352891391
+    >>> float(n)
+    2.9514790517935289e+20
+    >>> n-long(float(n)
+    ... )
+    -1L
+
+  (Implemented by Mark Dickinson; :issue:`3166`.)
+
 * The :class:`bytearray` type's :meth:`translate` method will
   now accept ``None`` as its first argument.  (Fixed by Georg Brandl;
   :issue:`4759`.)
@@ -220,21 +245,24 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details.
 * New class: the :class:`Counter` class in the :mod:`collections` module is
   useful for tallying data.  :class:`Counter` instances behave mostly
   like dictionaries but return zero for missing keys instead of
-  raising a :exc:`KeyError`::
-
-    >>> from collections import Counter
-    >>> c=Counter()
-    >>> for letter in 'here is a sample of english text':
-    ...   c[letter] += 1
-    ...
-    >>> c
-    Counter({' ': 6, 'e': 5, 's': 3, 'a': 2, 'i': 2, 'h': 2,
-    'l': 2, 't': 2, 'g': 1, 'f': 1, 'm': 1, 'o': 1, 'n': 1,
-    'p': 1, 'r': 1, 'x': 1})
-    >>> c['e']
-    5
-    >>> c['z']
-    0
+  raising a :exc:`KeyError`:
+
+  .. doctest::
+     :options: +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE
+
+     >>> from collections import Counter
+     >>> c = Counter()
+     >>> for letter in 'here is a sample of english text':
+     ...   c[letter] += 1
+     ...
+     >>> c
+     Counter({' ': 6, 'e': 5, 's': 3, 'a': 2, 'i': 2, 'h': 2,
+     'l': 2, 't': 2, 'g': 1, 'f': 1, 'm': 1, 'o': 1, 'n': 1,
+     'p': 1, 'r': 1, 'x': 1})
+     >>> c['e']
+     5
+     >>> c['z']
+     0
 
   There are two additional :class:`Counter` methods: :meth:`most_common`
   returns the N most common elements and their counts, and :meth:`elements`
@@ -247,7 +275,7 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details.
        'a', 'a', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ',
        'e', 'e', 'e', 'e', 'e', 'g', 'f', 'i', 'i',
        'h', 'h', 'm', 'l', 'l', 'o', 'n', 'p', 's',
-       's', 's', 'r', 't', 't', 'x']
+       's', 's', 'r', 't', 't', 'x'
 
   Contributed by Raymond Hettinger; :issue:`1696199`.
 
@@ -257,7 +285,8 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details.
   renamed to legal names that are derived from the field's
   position within the list of fields:
 
-     >>> T=namedtuple('T', ['field1', '$illegal', 'for', 'field2'], rename=True)
+     >>> from collections import namedtuple
+     >>> T = namedtuple('T', ['field1', '$illegal', 'for', 'field2'], rename=True)
      >>> T._fields
      ('field1', '_1', '_2', 'field2')
 
@@ -294,6 +323,10 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details.
   ``Decimal('0.1000000000000000055511151231257827021181583404541015625')``.
   (Implemented by Raymond Hettinger; :issue:`4796`.)
 
+* The :class:`Fraction` class will now accept two rational numbers
+  as arguments to its constructor.
+  (Implemented by Mark Dickinson; :issue:`5812`.)
+
 * New function: the :mod:`gc` module's :func:`is_tracked` returns
   true if a given instance is tracked by the garbage collector, false
   otherwise. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`4688`.)
@@ -419,6 +452,13 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details.
 
   (Implemented by Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`4444`.)
 
+  The methods :meth:`addCleanup` and :meth:`doCleanups` were added.
+  :meth:`addCleanup` allows you to add cleanup functions that
+  will be called unconditionally (after :meth:`setUp` if
+  :meth:`setUp` fails, otherwise after :meth:`tearDown`). This allows
+  for much simpler resource allocation and deallocation during tests.
+  :issue:`5679`
+
   A number of new methods were added that provide more specialized
   tests.  Many of these methods were written by Google engineers
   for use in their test suites; Gregory P. Smith, Michael Foord, and
@@ -473,6 +513,14 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details.
     to provide additional information about why the two objects are
     matching, much as the new sequence comparison methods do.
 
+  :func:`unittest.main` now takes an optional ``exit`` argument.
+  If False ``main`` doesn't call :func:`sys.exit` allowing it to
+  be used from the interactive interpreter. :issue:`3379`.
+
+  :class:`TestResult` has new :meth:`startTestRun` and
+  :meth:`stopTestRun` methods; called immediately before
+  and after a test run. :issue:`5728` by Robert Collins.
+
 * The :func:`is_zipfile` function in the :mod:`zipfile` module will now
   accept a file object, in addition to the path names accepted in earlier
   versions.  (Contributed by Gabriel Genellina; :issue:`4756`.)
@@ -553,6 +601,10 @@ Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include:
   is particularly useful for asynchronous IO operations.
   (Contributed by Kristjan Valur Jonsson; :issue:`4293`.)
 
+* Global symbols defined by the :mod:`ctypes` module are now prefixed
+  with ``Py`, or with ``_ctypes``.  (Implemented by Thomas
+  Heller; :issue:`3102`.)
+
 * The :program:`configure` script now checks for floating-point rounding bugs
   on certain 32-bit Intel chips and defines a :cmacro:`X87_DOUBLE_ROUNDING`
   preprocessor definition.  No code currently uses this definition,
@@ -591,10 +643,10 @@ Other Changes and Fixes
 
 * When importing a module from a :file:`.pyc` or :file:`.pyo` file
   with an existing :file:`.py` counterpart, the :attr:`co_filename`
-  attributes of all code objects if the original filename is obsolete,
-  which can happen if the file has been renamed, moved, or is accessed
-  through different paths.  (Patch by Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul
-  Calderone; :issue:`1180193`.)
+  attributes of the resulting code objects are overwritten when the
+  original filename is obsolete.  This can happen if the file has been
+  renamed, moved, or is accessed through different paths.  (Patch by
+  Ziga Seilnacht and Jean-Paul Calderone; :issue:`1180193`.)
 
 * The :file:`regrtest.py` script now takes a :option:`--randseed=`
   switch that takes an integer that will be used as the random seed