Merged revisions 60990-61002 via svnmerge from
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  r60990 | eric.smith | 2008-02-23 17:05:26 +0100 (Sat, 23 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Removed duplicate Py_CHARMASK define.  It's already defined in Python.h.
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  r60991 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-02-23 17:23:05 +0100 (Sat, 23 Feb 2008) | 4 lines

  #1330538: Improve comparison of xmlrpclib.DateTime and datetime instances.
  Remove automatic handling of datetime.date and datetime.time.
  This breaks backward compatibility, but python-dev discussion was strongly
  against this automatic conversion; see the bug for a link.
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  r60994 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-02-23 17:39:43 +0100 (Sat, 23 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  #835521: Add index entries for various pickle-protocol methods and attributes
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  r60995 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-02-23 18:10:46 +0100 (Sat, 23 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  #1433694: minidom's .normalize() failed to set .nextSibling for last element.
  Fix by Malte Helmert
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  r61000 | christian.heimes | 2008-02-23 18:40:11 +0100 (Sat, 23 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Patch #2167 from calvin: Remove unused imports
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  r61001 | christian.heimes | 2008-02-23 18:42:31 +0100 (Sat, 23 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Patch #1957: syslogmodule: Release GIL when calling syslog(3)
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  r61002 | christian.heimes | 2008-02-23 18:52:07 +0100 (Sat, 23 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Issue #2051 and patch from Alexander Belopolsky:
  Permission for pyc and pyo files are inherited from the py file.
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diff --git a/Modules/syslogmodule.c b/Modules/syslogmodule.c
index 112b749..6f2a868 100644
--- a/Modules/syslogmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/syslogmodule.c
@@ -100,9 +100,10 @@
 	message = PyUnicode_AsString(message_object);
 	if (message == NULL)
 		return NULL;
+	Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS;
 	syslog(priority, "%s", message);
-	Py_INCREF(Py_None);
-	return Py_None;
+	Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS;
+	Py_RETURN_NONE;
 }
 
 static PyObject *