Merged revisions 67898,67904-67907,67912,67918,67920-67921,67923-67924,67927,67930,67932,67943 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r67898 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-21 15:00:53 -0600 (Sun, 21 Dec 2008) | 1 line compute DISTVERSION with patchlevel.py ........ r67904 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-22 14:44:58 -0600 (Mon, 22 Dec 2008) | 1 line less attitude ........ r67905 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-22 14:51:15 -0600 (Mon, 22 Dec 2008) | 1 line fix #4720: the format to PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords can now start with '|' ........ r67906 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-22 14:52:53 -0600 (Mon, 22 Dec 2008) | 1 line add NEWS note ........ r67907 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-22 16:12:19 -0600 (Mon, 22 Dec 2008) | 1 line silence compiler warning ........ r67912 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-23 06:37:21 -0600 (Tue, 23 Dec 2008) | 2 lines Fix missing "svn" command. ........ r67918 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-23 09:44:25 -0600 (Tue, 23 Dec 2008) | 2 lines Markup fix. ........ r67920 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-23 14:09:28 -0600 (Tue, 23 Dec 2008) | 1 line use a global variable, so the compiler doesn't optimize the assignment out ........ r67921 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-23 14:12:33 -0600 (Tue, 23 Dec 2008) | 1 line make global static ........ r67923 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-24 09:10:27 -0600 (Wed, 24 Dec 2008) | 1 line #4736 BufferRWPair.closed shouldn't try to call another property as a function ........ r67924 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-24 10:10:05 -0600 (Wed, 24 Dec 2008) | 1 line pretend exceptions don't exist a while longer ........ r67927 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-26 17:26:30 -0600 (Fri, 26 Dec 2008) | 1 line python version is included in file name now ........ r67930 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2008-12-26 22:19:48 -0600 (Fri, 26 Dec 2008) | 2 lines Issue #4740: Use HIGHEST_PROTOCOL in pickle test. (There is no behavior difference in 2.x because HIGHEST_PROTOCOL == 2) ........ r67932 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-12-27 00:36:10 -0600 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 5 lines Remove unnecessary casts related to unicode_decode_call_errorhandler. Make the _PyUnicode_Resize macro a static function. These changes are needed to avoid breaking strict aliasing rules. ........ r67943 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-12-27 04:02:59 -0600 (Sat, 27 Dec 2008) | 2 lines Fix bogus unicode tests in pickletester. ........

--- a/Python/getargs.c	Sat Dec 27 13:28:42 2008 +0000
+++ b/Python/getargs.c	Sat Dec 27 17:05:29 2008 +0000
@@ -1601,7 +1601,7 @@
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (!IS_END_OF_FORMAT(*format)) {
+	if (!IS_END_OF_FORMAT(*format) && *format != '|') {
 		PyErr_Format(PyExc_RuntimeError,
 			"more argument specifiers than keyword list entries "
 			"(remaining format:'%s')", format);