__getitem__() methods: compute only the new spellings needed to satisfy
the given indexing object. This is purely an optimization (it should
have no effect on visible semantics).
and test_support.run_classtests() into run_unittest()
and use it wherever possible.
Also don't use "from test.test_support import ...", but
"from test import test_support" in a few spots.
From SF patch #662807.
imports e.g. test_support must do so using an absolute package name
such as "import test.test_support" or "from test import test_support".
This also updates the README in Lib/test, and gets rid of the
duplicate data dirctory in Lib/test/data (replaced by
Lib/email/test/data).
Now Tim and Jack can have at it. :)
One more time on this turkey, but duller instead of cleverer.
Curious: The docs say __getslice__ has been deprecated since 2.0, but
list.__getitem__ still doesn't work if you pass it a slice. This makes
it a lot clearer to emulate a list by *being* a list <wink>.
Bugfix candidate. Michael, just pile this patch on top of the others
that went by -- no need to try to pick these apart.
Mark Dickinson
Walter Dörwald
Tim Peters
Barry Warsaw
Skip Montanaro
Fred Drake