Merged revisions 59666-59679 via svnmerge from
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  r59666 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-02 19:28:32 +0100 (Wed, 02 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Made vs9to8 Unix compatible
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  r59669 | guido.van.rossum | 2008-01-02 20:00:46 +0100 (Wed, 02 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Patch #1696.  Don't attempt to close None in dry-run mode.
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  r59671 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-01-03 03:21:52 +0100 (Thu, 03 Jan 2008) | 6 lines

  Backport PEP 3141 from the py3k branch to the trunk. This includes r50877 (just
  the complex_pow part), r56649, r56652, r56715, r57296, r57302, r57359, r57361,
  r57372, r57738, r57739, r58017, r58039, r58040, and r59390, and new
  documentation. The only significant difference is that round(x) returns a float
  to preserve backward-compatibility. See http://bugs.python.org/issue1689.
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  r59672 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-03 16:41:30 +0100 (Thu, 03 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Issue #1726: Remove Python/atof.c from PCBuild/pythoncore.vcproj
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  r59675 | guido.van.rossum | 2008-01-03 20:12:44 +0100 (Thu, 03 Jan 2008) | 4 lines

  Issue #1700, reported by Nguyen Quan Son, fix by Fredruk Lundh:
  Regular Expression inline flags not handled correctly for some unicode
  characters.  (Forward port from 2.5.2.)
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  r59676 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-03 21:23:15 +0100 (Thu, 03 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Added math.isinf() and math.isnan()
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  r59677 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-03 22:14:48 +0100 (Thu, 03 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Some build bots don't compile mathmodule. There is an issue with the long definition of pi and euler
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  r59678 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-03 23:16:32 +0100 (Thu, 03 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Modified PyImport_Import and PyImport_ImportModule to always use absolute imports by calling __import__ with an explicit level of 0
  Added a new API function PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock. It solves the problem with dead locks when mixing threads and imports
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  r59679 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-03 23:32:26 +0100 (Thu, 03 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Added copysign(x, y) function to the math module
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diff --git a/Modules/gcmodule.c b/Modules/gcmodule.c
index 37fcc51..d449a2b 100644
--- a/Modules/gcmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/gcmodule.c
@@ -1199,7 +1199,7 @@
 	 * the import and triggers an assertion.
 	 */
 	if (tmod == NULL) {
-		tmod = PyImport_ImportModule("time");
+		tmod = PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock("time");
 		if (tmod == NULL)
 			PyErr_Clear();
 	}