Merged revisions 59245-59254 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r59245 | georg.brandl | 2007-11-30 23:04:45 +0100 (Fri, 30 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Move lchmod() docs to correct place, and add versionadded tags.
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  r59249 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-30 23:36:10 +0100 (Fri, 30 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

  Backport of -r59242:59246 from py3k
  Fixed problem with regrtest caused by the additional of objects to _abcoll.
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  r59253 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-01 02:03:20 +0100 (Sat, 01 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Although pyconfig.h claims that WIN32 is obsolete it is still required for the locale module. locale.getdefaultlocale() fails silently w/o the WIN32 macro.
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  r59254 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-01 12:20:10 +0100 (Sat, 01 Dec 2007) | 3 lines

  Feature #1534
  Added PyFloat_GetMax(), PyFloat_GetMin() and PyFloat_GetInfo() to the float API.
  Added a dictionary sys.float_info with information about the internal floating point type to the sys module.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sys.py b/Lib/test/test_sys.py
index 9a285c5..767f3a8 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sys.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sys.py
@@ -279,6 +279,8 @@
         self.assert_(isinstance(sys.copyright, str))
         self.assert_(isinstance(sys.exec_prefix, str))
         self.assert_(isinstance(sys.executable, str))
+        self.assert_(isinstance(sys.float_info, dict))
+        self.assertEqual(len(sys.float_info), 11)
         self.assert_(isinstance(sys.hexversion, int))
         self.assert_(isinstance(sys.maxint, int))
         self.assert_(isinstance(sys.maxunicode, int))