Merged revisions 60990-61002 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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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/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py b/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py
index 3087a5c..b6f0a862 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py
@@ -204,6 +204,8 @@
                 L.append(child)
                 if child.nodeType == Node.ELEMENT_NODE:
                     child.normalize()
+        if L:
+            L[-1].nextSibling = None
         self.childNodes[:] = L
 
     def cloneNode(self, deep):