release of 2.6 for 2012.

  environment variable, to provide an opt-in way to protect against denial of
  service attacks due to hash collisions within the dict and set types.  Patch
  by David Malcolm, based on work by Victor Stinner.

message:

Reconcile with the 2.6svn branch.  The 2.6.7 release will be made from
Subversion, but there were differences, so this brings them in sync.  These
changes should *not* propagate to any newer versions.

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  r83429 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 21:14:56 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 37 lines

  Merged revisions 83352,83356-83358,83362,83366,83368-83369 via svnmerge from
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    r83352 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 20:11:07 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line

    #9440: Remove borderline test case that fails based on unpredictable conditions such as compiler flags.
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    r83356 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 21:29:15 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line

    Remove trailing whitespace.
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    r83357 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 21:59:55 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line

    #5778: document that sys.version can contain a newline.
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    r83358 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 22:05:31 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line

    #9442: do not document a specific format for sys.version; rather refer to version_info and the platform module.
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    r83362 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 23:12:15 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line

    #8910: add a file explaining why Lib/test/data is there.
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    r83366 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 23:26:40 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line

    There always is a False and True now.
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    r83368 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 23:40:15 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line

    #7909: the prefixes \\.\ and \\?\ indicate special Windows paths, do not try to manipulate them.  See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247%28VS.85%29.aspx for details.
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    r83369 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 23:41:42 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line

    Fix "Berkeley" name.
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  r83436 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-01 21:33:15 +0200 (So, 01 Aug 2010) | 42 lines

  Merged revisions 83259,83261,83264-83265,83268-83269,83271-83272,83281 via svnmerge from
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    r83259 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-30 09:03:39 +0200 (Fr, 30 Jul 2010) | 1 line

    Clarification.
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    r83261 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-30 09:21:26 +0200 (Fr, 30 Jul 2010) | 1 line

    #9230: allow Pdb.checkline() to be called without a current frame, for setting breakpoints before starting debugging.
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    r83264 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-30 10:45:26 +0200 (Fr, 30 Jul 2010) | 1 line

    Document the "jump" command in pdb.__doc__, and add a version tag for "until X".
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    r83265 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-30 10:54:49 +0200 (Fr, 30 Jul 2010) | 1 line

    #8015: fix crash when entering an empty line for breakpoint commands.  Also restore environment properly when an exception occurs during the definition of commands.
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    r83268 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-30 11:23:23 +0200 (Fr, 30 Jul 2010) | 2 lines

    Issue #8048: Prevent doctests from failing when sys.displayhook has
    been reassigned.
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    r83269 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-30 11:43:00 +0200 (Fr, 30 Jul 2010) | 1 line

    #6719: In pdb, do not stop somewhere in the encodings machinery if the source file to be debugged is in a non-builtin encoding.
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    r83271 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-30 11:59:28 +0200 (Fr, 30 Jul 2010) | 1 line

    #5727: Restore the ability to use readline when calling into pdb in doctests.
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    r83272 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-30 12:29:19 +0200 (Fr, 30 Jul 2010) | 1 line

    #5294: Fix the behavior of pdb "continue" command when called in the top-level debugged frame.
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    r83281 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-30 15:36:43 +0200 (Fr, 30 Jul 2010) | 1 line

    Add myself for pdb.
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  r82169 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-06-22 23:42:05 +0200 (mar., 22 juin 2010) | 4 lines

  Fix misindents in compile.c (for Benjamin).
  Of course, whoever used the wrong indentation rules needs to be spanked.
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  r81537 | victor.stinner | 2010-05-26 00:30:32 +0200 (mer., 26 mai 2010) | 3 lines

  Issue #3798: Write sys.exit() message to sys.stderr to use stderr encoding and
  error handler, instead of writing to the C stderr file in utf-8
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  r81398 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-05-21 19:12:38 +0200 (ven., 21 mai 2010) | 6 lines

  Issue #5753: A new C API function, :cfunc:`PySys_SetArgvEx`, allows
  embedders of the interpreter to set sys.argv without also modifying
  sys.path.  This helps fix `CVE-2008-5983
  <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5983>`_.
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