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  r59377 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-06 01:24:23 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Add another GHOP student to ACKS.
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  r59378 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-06 01:56:53 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 5 lines

  Fix Issue 1045.
  Factor-out common calling code by simplifying the length_hint API.
  Speed-up the function by caching the PyObject_String for the attribute lookup.
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  r59380 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-06 02:52:24 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Diverse markup fixes.
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  r59383 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-06 10:45:39 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Better re.split examples.
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  r59386 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-06 14:15:13 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Fixed get_config_h_filename for Windows. Without the patch it can't find the pyconfig.h file inside a build tree.
  Added several small unit tests for sysconfig.
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  r59387 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-06 14:30:11 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Silence more warnings, _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE is already defined in pyconfig.h but several projects don't include it.
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  r59389 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-06 14:55:01 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Disabled one test that is failing on Unix
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  r59399 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-06 22:13:06 +0100 (Thu, 06 Dec 2007) | 8 lines

  Several Windows related cleanups:
  * Removed a #define from pyconfig.h. The macro was already defined a few lines higher.
  * Fixed path to tix in the build_tkinter.py script
  * Changed make_buildinfo.c to use versions of unlink and strcat which are considered safe by Windows (as suggested by MvL).
  * Removed two defines from pyproject.vsprops that are no longer required. Both are defined in pyconfig.h and make_buildinfo.c doesn't use the unsafe versions any more (as suggested by MvL).
  * Added some more information about PGO and the property files to PCbuild9/readme.txt.

  Are you fine with the changes, Martin?
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  r59400 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-07 02:53:01 +0100 (Fri, 07 Dec 2007) | 4 lines

  Don't have the docs berate themselves.  Keep a professional tone.
  If a todo is needed, put it in the tracker.
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  r59402 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-07 10:07:10 +0100 (Fri, 07 Dec 2007) | 3 lines

  Increase unit test coverage of SimpleXMLRPCServer.
  Written for GHOP by Turkay Eren.
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  r59406 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-07 16:16:57 +0100 (Fri, 07 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Update to windows doc from Robert.
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diff --git a/Include/abstract.h b/Include/abstract.h
index dfef938..e344fba 100644
--- a/Include/abstract.h
+++ b/Include/abstract.h
@@ -410,25 +410,12 @@
      PyAPI_FUNC(Py_ssize_t) PyObject_Length(PyObject *o);
 #define PyObject_Length PyObject_Size
 
-     PyAPI_FUNC(Py_ssize_t) _PyObject_LengthHint(PyObject *o);
+     PyAPI_FUNC(Py_ssize_t) _PyObject_LengthHint(PyObject *o, Py_ssize_t);
 
        /*
-         Return the size of object o.  If the object, o, provides
-	 both sequence and mapping protocols, the sequence size is
-	 returned. On error, -1 is returned.  If the object provides
-	 a __length_hint__() method, its value is returned.  This is an
-	 internal undocumented API provided for performance reasons;
-	 for compatibility, don't use it outside the core.  This is the
-	 equivalent to the Python expression: 
-		try:
-			return len(o)
-		except (AttributeError, TypeError):
-			exc_type, exc_value, exc_tb = sys.exc_info()
-			try:
-				return o.__length_hint__()
-			except:
-				pass
-			raise exc_type, exc_value, exc_tb
+         Guess the size of object o using len(o) or o.__length_hint__().
+         If neither of those return a non-negative value, then return the
+         default value.  This function never fails. All exceptions are cleared.
        */
 
      PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyObject_GetItem(PyObject *o, PyObject *key);