This fixes some of the failures, but there are still more.
svn:ignore *.pyc *.pyo svn:eol-style native The .py files appear to have been checked in with Windows or inconsistent line endings. The current check-in disrupts the 'svn blame', but hopefully it is irrelevant for freshly imported code.
test that package, not the xmlcore/PyXML switcheroo fiasco in the xml module/package