Merged revisions 58886-58929 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r58892 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-11-06 15:32:56 -0800 (Tue, 06 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Add missing "return NULL" in overflow check in PyObject_Repr().
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  r58893 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-06 17:13:09 -0800 (Tue, 06 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Fix marshal's incorrect handling of subclasses of builtin types (backport candidate).
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  r58895 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-06 18:26:17 -0800 (Tue, 06 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Optimize dict.fromkeys() with dict inputs.  Useful for resetting bag/muliset counts for example.
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  r58896 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-06 18:45:46 -0800 (Tue, 06 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Add build option for faster loop execution.
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  r58900 | nick.coghlan | 2007-11-07 03:57:51 -0800 (Wed, 07 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Add missing NEWS entry
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  r58905 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-07 09:50:54 -0800 (Wed, 07 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Backported fix for bug #1392 from py3k branch r58903.
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  r58906 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-07 10:30:22 -0800 (Wed, 07 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Backport of Guido's review of my patch.
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  r58908 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-07 18:52:43 -0800 (Wed, 07 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Add set.isdisjoint()
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  r58915 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-08 10:47:51 -0800 (Thu, 08 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Reposition the decref (spotted by eagle-eye norwitz).
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  r58920 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-09 04:31:43 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix seealso link to sets docs. Do not merge to Py3k.
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  r58921 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-09 05:08:48 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix misleading example.
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  r58923 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-09 09:33:23 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 3 lines

  Correct a comment about testing methods - nowadays most
  tests don't run directly on import.
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  r58924 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-11-09 14:56:30 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Add Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
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  r58925 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-09 15:14:44 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Optimize common case for dict.fromkeys().
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  r58927 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-11-09 17:54:03 -0800 (Fri, 09 Nov 2007) | 1 line

  Use a freelist to speed-up block allocation and deallocation in collections.deque().
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  r58929 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-11-10 14:12:24 -0800 (Sat, 10 Nov 2007) | 3 lines

  Issue 1416.  Add getter, setter, deleter methods to properties that can be
  used as decorators to create fully-populated properties.
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diff --git a/Objects/dictobject.c b/Objects/dictobject.c
index 4230125..7bff7d8 100644
--- a/Objects/dictobject.c
+++ b/Objects/dictobject.c
@@ -1175,6 +1175,25 @@
 	if (d == NULL)
 		return NULL;
 
+	if (PyDict_CheckExact(d) && PyDict_CheckExact(seq)) {
+		PyDictObject *mp = (PyDictObject *)d;
+		PyObject *oldvalue;
+		Py_ssize_t pos = 0;
+		PyObject *key;
+		long hash;
+
+		if (dictresize(mp, PySet_GET_SIZE(seq)))
+			return NULL;
+
+		while (_PyDict_Next(seq, &pos, &key, &oldvalue, &hash)) {
+			Py_INCREF(key);
+			Py_INCREF(value);
+			if (insertdict(mp, key, hash, value))
+				return NULL;
+		}
+		return d;
+	}
+
 	if (PyDict_CheckExact(d) && PyAnySet_CheckExact(seq)) {
 		PyDictObject *mp = (PyDictObject *)d;
 		Py_ssize_t pos = 0;
@@ -1199,19 +1218,24 @@
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
-	for (;;) {
-		key = PyIter_Next(it);
-		if (key == NULL) {
-			if (PyErr_Occurred())
+	if (PyDict_CheckExact(d)) {
+		while ((key = PyIter_Next(it)) != NULL) {
+			status = PyDict_SetItem(d, key, value);
+			Py_DECREF(key);
+			if (status < 0)
 				goto Fail;
-			break;
 		}
-		status = PyObject_SetItem(d, key, value);
-		Py_DECREF(key);
-		if (status < 0)
-			goto Fail;
+	} else {
+		while ((key = PyIter_Next(it)) != NULL) {
+			status = PyObject_SetItem(d, key, value);
+			Py_DECREF(key);
+			if (status < 0)
+				goto Fail;
+		}
 	}
 
+	if (PyErr_Occurred())
+		goto Fail;
 	Py_DECREF(it);
 	return d;