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  r59377 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-06 01:24:23 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Add another GHOP student to ACKS.
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  r59378 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-06 01:56:53 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 5 lines

  Fix Issue 1045.
  Factor-out common calling code by simplifying the length_hint API.
  Speed-up the function by caching the PyObject_String for the attribute lookup.
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  r59380 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-06 02:52:24 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Diverse markup fixes.
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  r59383 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-06 10:45:39 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Better re.split examples.
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  r59386 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-06 14:15:13 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Fixed get_config_h_filename for Windows. Without the patch it can't find the pyconfig.h file inside a build tree.
  Added several small unit tests for sysconfig.
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  r59387 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-06 14:30:11 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Silence more warnings, _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE is already defined in pyconfig.h but several projects don't include it.
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  r59389 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-06 14:55:01 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Disabled one test that is failing on Unix
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  r59399 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-06 22:13:06 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 8 lines

  Several Windows related cleanups:
  * Removed a #define from pyconfig.h. The macro was already defined a few lines higher.
  * Fixed path to tix in the build_tkinter.py script
  * Changed make_buildinfo.c to use versions of unlink and strcat which are considered safe by Windows (as suggested by MvL).
  * Removed two defines from pyproject.vsprops that are no longer required. Both are defined in pyconfig.h and make_buildinfo.c doesn't use the unsafe versions any more (as suggested by MvL).
  * Added some more information about PGO and the property files to PCbuild9/readme.txt.

  Are you fine with the changes, Martin?
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  r59400 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-07 02:53:01 +0100 (Fri, 07 Dec 2007) | 4 lines

  Don't have the docs berate themselves.  Keep a professional tone.
  If a todo is needed, put it in the tracker.
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  r59402 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-07 10:07:10 +0100 (Fri, 07 Dec 2007) | 3 lines

  Increase unit test coverage of SimpleXMLRPCServer.
  Written for GHOP by Turkay Eren.
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  r59406 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-07 16:16:57 +0100 (Fri, 07 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Update to windows doc from Robert.
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diff --git a/Objects/listobject.c b/Objects/listobject.c
index 18d3b90..efcedc7 100644
--- a/Objects/listobject.c
+++ b/Objects/listobject.c
@@ -758,17 +758,7 @@
 	iternext = *it->ob_type->tp_iternext;
 
 	/* Guess a result list size. */
-	n = _PyObject_LengthHint(b);
-	if (n < 0) {
-		if (PyErr_Occurred()
-		    && !PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_TypeError)
-		    && !PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_AttributeError)) {
-			Py_DECREF(it);
-			return NULL;
-		}
-		PyErr_Clear();
-		n = 8;	/* arbitrary */
-	}
+	n = _PyObject_LengthHint(b, 8);
 	m = Py_Size(self);
 	mn = m + n;
 	if (mn >= m) {