Merge p3yk branch with the trunk up to revision 45595. This breaks a fair
number of tests, all because of the codecs/_multibytecodecs issue described
here (it's not a Py3K issue, just something Py3K discovers):
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/064051.html

Hye-Shik Chang promised to look for a fix, so no need to fix it here. The
tests that are expected to break are:

test_codecencodings_cn
test_codecencodings_hk
test_codecencodings_jp
test_codecencodings_kr
test_codecencodings_tw
test_codecs
test_multibytecodec

This merge fixes an actual test failure (test_weakref) in this branch,
though, so I believe merging is the right thing to do anyway.
diff --git a/Tools/pybench/Exceptions.py b/Tools/pybench/Exceptions.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..295c83a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tools/pybench/Exceptions.py
@@ -0,0 +1,681 @@
+from pybench import Test
+
+class TryRaiseExcept(Test):
+
+    version = 0.1
+    operations = 2 + 3
+    rounds = 60000
+
+    def test(self):
+
+        error = ValueError
+
+        for i in xrange(self.rounds):
+            try:
+                raise error
+            except:
+                pass
+            try:
+                raise error
+            except:
+                pass
+            try:
+                raise error,"something"
+            except:
+                pass
+            try:
+                raise error,"something"
+            except:
+                pass
+            try:
+                raise error,"something"
+            except:
+                pass
+
+    def calibrate(self):
+
+        error = ValueError
+
+        for i in xrange(self.rounds):
+            pass
+            
+
+class TryExcept(Test):
+
+    version = 0.1
+    operations = 15 * 10
+    rounds = 200000
+
+    def test(self):
+
+        for i in xrange(self.rounds):
+            try:
+                pass
+            except:
+                pass
+            try:
+                pass
+            except:
+                pass
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+                pass
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+                pass
+
+    def calibrate(self):
+
+        for i in xrange(self.rounds):
+            pass
+            
+