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  r70866 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 21:06:57 +0200 (Di, 31 Mär 2009) | 1 line

  #4882: document named group behavior a bit better.
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  r70867 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 21:10:35 +0200 (Di, 31 Mär 2009) | 1 line

  #1096310: document usage of sys.__std*__ a bit better.
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  r70868 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 21:12:17 +0200 (Di, 31 Mär 2009) | 1 line

  #5190: export make_option in __all__.
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  r70870 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 21:26:24 +0200 (Di, 31 Mär 2009) | 1 line

  #4411: document mro() and __mro__. (I hope I got it right.)
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  r70871 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 21:30:56 +0200 (Di, 31 Mär 2009) | 1 line

  #5618: fix typo.
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  r70893 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 22:56:32 +0200 (Di, 31 Mär 2009) | 1 line

  #1530012: move TQS section before raw strings.
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  r70896 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 23:15:33 +0200 (Di, 31 Mär 2009) | 1 line

  #5598: document DocFileSuite *args argument.
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  r70902 | georg.brandl | 2009-03-31 23:43:03 +0200 (Di, 31 Mär 2009) | 1 line

  #1675026: add a note about a strange Windows problem, and remove notes about AtheOS.
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  r70905 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 00:03:40 +0200 (Mi, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  #5563: more documentation for bdist_msi.
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  r70907 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 00:18:19 +0200 (Mi, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  #3427: document correct return type for urlopen().info().
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  r70912 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 00:35:46 +0200 (Mi, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  #5617: add a handy function to print a unicode string to gdbinit.
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  r70915 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 00:40:16 +0200 (Mi, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  #5018: remove confusing paragraph.
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  r70927 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 01:01:27 +0200 (Mi, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Dont shout to users.
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  r70933 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 02:04:33 +0200 (Mi, 01 Apr 2009) | 2 lines

  Issue #5635: Fix running test_sys with tracing enabled.
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  r70940 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 06:21:14 +0200 (Mi, 01 Apr 2009) | 2 lines

  The SimpleXMLRPCServer's CGI handler now runs like a pony.
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  r70944 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 06:32:39 +0200 (Mi, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  #5631: add upload to list of possible commands, which is presented in --help-commands.
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  r70954 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 17:23:43 +0200 (Mi, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  Fix test_xmlrpc and make the CGI handler work with no CONTENT_LENGTH.
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  r70963 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 19:46:01 +0200 (Mi, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  #5655: fix docstring oversight.
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  r70998 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-01 23:54:21 +0200 (Mi, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line

  In Pdb, stop assigning values to __builtin__._ which interferes with the one commonly installed by gettext.
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  r71056 | georg.brandl | 2009-04-02 19:43:07 +0200 (Do, 02 Apr 2009) | 2 lines

  Actually the displayhook should print the repr.
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7 files changed, 28 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py b/Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py
index 43757a0..b304e45 100644
--- a/Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py
+++ b/Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py
@@ -598,8 +598,12 @@ class CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler(SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher):
             self.handle_get()
         else:
             # POST data is normally available through stdin
+            try:
+                length = int(os.environ.get('CONTENT_LENGTH', None))
+            except (TypeError, ValueError):
+                length = -1
             if request_text is None:
-                request_text = sys.stdin.read()
+                request_text = sys.stdin.read(length)
 
             self.handle_xmlrpc(request_text)
 
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/__init__.py b/Lib/distutils/command/__init__.py
index 0888c27..05c758a 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/__init__.py
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ __all__ = ['build',
            'bdist_dumb',
            'bdist_rpm',
            'bdist_wininst',
+           'upload',
+
            # These two are reserved for future use:
            #'bdist_sdux',
            #'bdist_pkgtool',
diff --git a/Lib/glob.py b/Lib/glob.py
index 75d7bf9..04364be 100644
--- a/Lib/glob.py
+++ b/Lib/glob.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ def glob(pathname):
     return list(iglob(pathname))
 
 def iglob(pathname):
-    """Return a list of paths matching a pathname pattern.
+    """Return an iterator which yields the paths matching a pathname pattern.
 
     The pattern may contain simple shell-style wildcards a la fnmatch.
 
diff --git a/Lib/optparse.py b/Lib/optparse.py
index 02f62e4..56b05d6 100644
--- a/Lib/optparse.py
+++ b/Lib/optparse.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ For support, use the optik-users@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list
 __version__ = "1.5.3"
 
 __all__ = ['Option',
+           'make_option',
            'SUPPRESS_HELP',
            'SUPPRESS_USAGE',
            'Values',
diff --git a/Lib/pdb.py b/Lib/pdb.py
index 3f76032..e9f5632 100755
--- a/Lib/pdb.py
+++ b/Lib/pdb.py
@@ -194,6 +194,12 @@ class Pdb(bdb.Bdb, cmd.Cmd):
         self.cmdloop()
         self.forget()
 
+    def displayhook(self, obj):
+        """Custom displayhook for the exec in default(), which prevents
+        assignment of the _ variable in the builtins.
+        """
+        print repr(obj)
+
     def default(self, line):
         if line[:1] == '!': line = line[1:]
         locals = self.curframe.f_locals
@@ -202,13 +208,16 @@ class Pdb(bdb.Bdb, cmd.Cmd):
             code = compile(line + '\n', '<stdin>', 'single')
             save_stdout = sys.stdout
             save_stdin = sys.stdin
+            save_displayhook = sys.displayhook
             try:
                 sys.stdin = self.stdin
                 sys.stdout = self.stdout
+                sys.displayhook = self.displayhook
                 exec code in globals, locals
             finally:
                 sys.stdout = save_stdout
                 sys.stdin = save_stdin
+                sys.displayhook = save_displayhook
         except:
             t, v = sys.exc_info()[:2]
             if type(t) == type(''):
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sys.py b/Lib/test/test_sys.py
index 35467e4..9589771 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sys.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sys.py
@@ -221,6 +221,11 @@ class SysModuleTest(unittest.TestCase):
             sys.setdlopenflags(oldflags)
 
     def test_refcount(self):
+        # n here must be a global in order for this test to pass while
+        # tracing with a python function.  Tracing calls PyFrame_FastToLocals
+        # which will add a copy of any locals to the frame object, causing
+        # the reference count to increase by 2 instead of 1.
+        global n
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, sys.getrefcount)
         c = sys.getrefcount(None)
         n = None
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py b/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
index c9294b1..409a4f0 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
@@ -624,7 +624,11 @@ class CGIHandlerTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         sys.stdin = open("xmldata.txt", "r")
         sys.stdout = open(test_support.TESTFN, "w")
 
-        self.cgi.handle_request()
+        os.environ['CONTENT_LENGTH'] = str(len(data))
+        try:
+            self.cgi.handle_request()
+        finally:
+            del os.environ['CONTENT_LENGTH']
 
         sys.stdin.close()
         sys.stdout.close()