python2.7 2.7.4~rc1-0ubuntu1 source package in Ubuntu

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python2.7 (2.7.4~rc1-0ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low

  * Python 2.7.4 release candidate 1.
    - Issue #10211: Buffer objects expose the new buffer interface internally.
    - Issue #10212: cStringIO and struct.unpack support new buffer objects.
    - Issue #12098: multiprocessing on Windows now starts child processes
      using the same sys.flags as the current process.
    - Issue #8862: Fixed curses cleanup when getkey is interrputed by a signal.
    - Issue #9090: When a socket with a timeout fails with EWOULDBLOCK or
      EAGAIN, retry the select() loop instead of bailing out.
    - Issue #1285086: Get rid of the refcounting hack and speed up
      urllib.unquote().
    - Issue #17368: Fix an off-by-one error in the Python JSON decoder
      that caused a failure while decoding empty object literals when
      object_pairs_hook was specified.
    - Issue #17477: Update the bsddb module to pybsddb 5.3.0, supporting
      db-5.x, and dropping support for db-4.1 and db-4.2.
    - Issue #17192: Update the ctypes module's libffi to v3.0.13.  This
      specifically addresses a stack misalignment issue on x86 and issues on
      some more recent platforms.
    - Issue #11420: make test suite pass with -B/DONTWRITEBYTECODE set.
    - Issue #17299: Add test coverage for cPickle with file objects
      and general IO objects.
    - Issue #11963: remove human verification from test_parser and
      test_subprocess.
    - Issue #16004: Add `make touch`.
    - Issue #17047: remove doubled words in docs and docstrings
  * Rework the sysconfigdata patch into something upstreamable.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden>   Sat, 23 Mar 2013 19:56:03 +0100