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  r59544 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-18 01:13:45 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Add more namedtuple() test cases.  Neaten the code and comments.
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  r59545 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-18 04:38:03 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 3 lines

  Fixed for #1601: IDLE not working correctly on Windows (Py30a2/IDLE30a1)

  Amaury's ideas works great. Should we build the Python core with WINVER=0x0500 and _WIN32_WINNT=0x0500, too?
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  r59546 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-18 10:00:13 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Make it a bit easier to test Tcl/Tk and idle from a build dir.
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  r59547 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-18 10:12:10 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Removed several unused files from the PCbuild9 directory. They are relics from the past.
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  r59548 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-18 19:26:18 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 29 lines

  Speed-up dictionary constructor by about 10%.

  New opcode, STORE_MAP saves the compiler from awkward stack manipulations
  and specializes for dicts using PyDict_SetItem instead of PyObject_SetItem.

  Old disassembly:
                0 BUILD_MAP                0
                3 DUP_TOP
                4 LOAD_CONST               1 (1)
                7 ROT_TWO
                8 LOAD_CONST               2 ('x')
               11 STORE_SUBSCR
               12 DUP_TOP
               13 LOAD_CONST               3 (2)
               16 ROT_TWO
               17 LOAD_CONST               4 ('y')
               20 STORE_SUBSCR

  New disassembly:
                0 BUILD_MAP                0
                3 LOAD_CONST               1 (1)
                6 LOAD_CONST               2 ('x')
                9 STORE_MAP
               10 LOAD_CONST               3 (2)
               13 LOAD_CONST               4 ('y')
               16 STORE_MAP
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  r59549 | thomas.heller | 2007-12-18 20:00:34 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Issue #1642: Fix segfault in ctypes when trying to delete attributes.
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  r59551 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-12-18 21:10:42 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Issue #1645 by Alberto Bertogli.  Fix a comment.
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  r59553 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-18 22:24:09 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 12 lines

  Give meaning to the oparg for BUILD_MAP:  estimated size of the dictionary.

  Allows dictionaries to be pre-sized (upto 255 elements) saving time lost
  to re-sizes with their attendant mallocs and re-insertions.

  Has zero effect on small dictionaries (5 elements or fewer), a slight
  benefit for dicts upto 22 elements (because they had to resize once
  anyway), and more benefit for dicts upto 255 elements (saving multiple
  resizes during the build-up and reducing the number of collisions on
  the first insertions).  Beyond 255 elements, there is no addional benefit.
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  r59554 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-18 22:56:09 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Fixed #1649: IDLE error: dictionary changed size during iteration
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  r59557 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-18 23:21:27 +0100 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Simplify and speedup _asdict() for named tuples.
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  r59558 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-19 00:22:54 +0100 (Wed, 19 Dec 2007) | 3 lines

  Applied patch #1635: Float patch for inf and nan on Windows (and other platforms).

  The patch unifies float("inf") and repr(float("inf")) on all platforms.
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  r59559 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-19 00:51:15 +0100 (Wed, 19 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Users demand iterable input for named tuples. The author capitulates.
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  r59560 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-19 01:21:06 +0100 (Wed, 19 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Beef-up tests for dict literals
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  r59561 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-19 01:27:21 +0100 (Wed, 19 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Zap a duplicate line
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diff --git a/Objects/floatobject.c b/Objects/floatobject.c
index 48d29d7..c876c74 100644
--- a/Objects/floatobject.c
+++ b/Objects/floatobject.c
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
 PyObject *
 PyFloat_FromString(PyObject *v)
 {
-	const char *s, *last, *end;
+	const char *s, *last, *end, *sp;
 	double x;
 	char buffer[256]; /* for errors */
 	char *s_buffer = NULL;
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@
 		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "empty string for float()");
 		goto error;
 	}
+	sp = s;
 	/* We don't care about overflow or underflow.  If the platform supports
 	 * them, infinities and signed zeroes (on underflow) are fine.
 	 * However, strtod can return 0 for denormalized numbers, where atof
@@ -161,7 +162,26 @@
 	   byte at the end of the string, when the input is inf(inity). */
 	if (end > last)
 		end = last;
+	/* Check for inf and nan. This is done late because it rarely happens. */
 	if (end == s) {
+		char *p = (char*)sp;
+		int sign = 1;
+
+		if (*p == '-') {
+			sign = -1;
+			p++;
+		}
+		if (*p == '+') {
+			p++;
+		}
+		if (PyOS_strnicmp(p, "inf", 4) == 0) {
+			return PyFloat_FromDouble(sign * Py_HUGE_VAL);
+		}
+#ifdef Py_NAN
+		if(PyOS_strnicmp(p, "nan", 4) == 0) {
+			return PyFloat_FromDouble(Py_NAN);
+		}
+#endif
 		PyOS_snprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer),
 			      "invalid literal for float(): %.200s", s);
 		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, buffer);
@@ -250,7 +270,9 @@
 {
 	register char *cp;
 	char format[32];
-	/* Subroutine for float_repr, float_str, and others.
+	int i;
+
+	/* Subroutine for float_repr, float_str and float_print.
 	   We want float numbers to be recognizable as such,
 	   i.e., they should contain a decimal point or an exponent.
 	   However, %g may print the number as an integer;
@@ -271,7 +293,33 @@
 		*cp++ = '.';
 		*cp++ = '0';
 		*cp++ = '\0';
+		return;
 	}
+	/* Checking the next three chars should be more than enough to
+	 * detect inf or nan, even on Windows. We check for inf or nan
+	 * at last because they are rare cases.
+	 */
+	for (i=0; *cp != '\0' && i<3; cp++, i++) {
+		if (isdigit(Py_CHARMASK(*cp)) || *cp == '.')
+			continue;
+		/* found something that is neither a digit nor point
+		 * it might be a NaN or INF
+		 */
+#ifdef Py_NAN
+		if (Py_IS_NAN(ob_fval)) {
+			strcpy(buf, "nan");
+		}
+                else
+#endif
+		if (Py_IS_INFINITY(ob_fval)) {
+			cp = buf;
+			if (*cp == '-')
+				cp++;
+			strcpy(cp, "inf");
+		}
+		break;
+	}
+
 }
 
 static void