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  r60876 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-17 16:14:10 +0100 (Sun, 17 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix function name.
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  r60877 | facundo.batista | 2008-02-17 17:21:13 +0100 (Sun, 17 Feb 2008) | 4 lines


  Now we handle different the backup copy, because of security
  issues regarding user/group and permissions. Fixes 1050828.
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  r60878 | facundo.batista | 2008-02-17 19:59:29 +0100 (Sun, 17 Feb 2008) | 4 lines


  Issue 2112. mmap does not raises EnvironmentError no more, but
  a subclass of it. Thanks John Lenton.
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  r60882 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-02-17 21:56:31 +0100 (Sun, 17 Feb 2008) | 5 lines

  Compilation was broken on Windows since the introduction of Advanced String Formatting.

  Only PCBuild (vs9) was really tested.
  Changes for older compilers were done manually.
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  r60883 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-17 22:18:55 +0100 (Sun, 17 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  #2133: fix HTML color spec.
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  r60884 | facundo.batista | 2008-02-18 04:43:43 +0100 (Mon, 18 Feb 2008) | 5 lines


  Issue #1916. Added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to
  inspect.py.  Thanks Javi Mansilla for patch review and
  corrections.
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  r60885 | facundo.batista | 2008-02-18 13:48:43 +0100 (Mon, 18 Feb 2008) | 4 lines


  Issue 1224. Now we support again the double slash in the URL.
  Thanks Anthony Lenton.
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  r60887 | eric.smith | 2008-02-18 15:25:02 +0100 (Mon, 18 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Temporarily removed float tests.  See issue 1600.
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  r60891 | kristjan.jonsson | 2008-02-18 18:40:47 +0100 (Mon, 18 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Perform correct handling of stack overflow for windows: Catch the correct exception code and reset the overflow condition when handled.
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diff --git a/Lib/inspect.py b/Lib/inspect.py
index 074754f..ddd7529 100644
--- a/Lib/inspect.py
+++ b/Lib/inspect.py
@@ -7,8 +7,9 @@
 
 Here are some of the useful functions provided by this module:
 
-    ismodule(), isclass(), ismethod(), isfunction(), istraceback(),
-        isframe(), iscode(), isbuiltin(), isroutine() - check object types
+    ismodule(), isclass(), ismethod(), isfunction(), isgeneratorfunction(),
+        isgenerator(), istraceback(), isframe(), iscode(), isbuiltin(),
+        isroutine() - check object types
     getmembers() - get members of an object that satisfy a given condition
 
     getfile(), getsourcefile(), getsource() - find an object's source code
@@ -29,9 +30,20 @@
 __author__ = 'Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>'
 __date__ = '1 Jan 2001'
 
-import sys, os, types, re, dis, imp, tokenize, linecache
+import sys
+import os
+import types
+import string
+import re
+import dis
+import imp
+import tokenize
+import linecache
 from operator import attrgetter
 from collections import namedtuple
+# These constants are from Include/code.h.
+CO_OPTIMIZED, CO_NEWLOCALS, CO_VARARGS, CO_VARKEYWORDS = 0x1, 0x2, 0x4, 0x8
+CO_NESTED, CO_GENERATOR, CO_NOFREE = 0x10, 0x20, 0x40
 
 # ----------------------------------------------------------- type-checking
 def ismodule(object):
@@ -137,6 +149,33 @@
         __kwdefaults__  dict of keyword only parameters with defaults"""
     return isinstance(object, types.FunctionType)
 
+def isgeneratorfunction(object):
+    """Return true if the object is a user-defined generator function.
+
+    Generator function objects provides same attributes as functions.
+
+    See isfunction.__doc__ for attributes listing."""
+    if (isfunction(object) or ismethod(object)) and \
+        object.__code__.co_flags & CO_GENERATOR:
+        return True
+
+def isgenerator(object):
+    """Return true if the object is a generator.
+
+    Generator objects provide these attributes:
+        __iter__        defined to support interation over container
+        close           raises a new GeneratorExit exception inside the
+                        generator to terminate the iteration
+        gi_code         code object
+        gi_frame        frame object or possibly None once the generator has
+                        been exhausted
+        gi_running      set to 1 when generator is executing, 0 otherwise
+        next            return the next item from the container
+        send            resumes the generator and "sends" a value that becomes
+                        the result of the current yield-expression
+        throw           used to raise an exception inside the generator"""
+    return isinstance(object, types.GeneratorType)
+
 def istraceback(object):
     """Return true if the object is a traceback.
 
@@ -198,6 +237,10 @@
             or ismethod(object)
             or ismethoddescriptor(object))
 
+def isgenerator(object):
+    """Return true if the object is a generator object."""
+    return isinstance(object, types.GeneratorType)
+
 def getmembers(object, predicate=None):
     """Return all members of an object as (name, value) pairs sorted by name.
     Optionally, only return members that satisfy a given predicate."""
@@ -670,9 +713,6 @@
     return walktree(roots, children, None)
 
 # ------------------------------------------------ argument list extraction
-# These constants are from Python's compile.h.
-CO_OPTIMIZED, CO_NEWLOCALS, CO_VARARGS, CO_VARKEYWORDS = 1, 2, 4, 8
-
 Arguments = namedtuple('Arguments', 'args, varargs, varkw')
 
 def getargs(co):