FreeBSD 7's underlying malloc() is behaves differently to earlier versions
and seriously overcommits available memory on amd64. This may affect
other 64bit platforms in some circumstances, so the scale of the
problematic test is wound back.
Patch by Mark Dickinson, reviewed by Martin von Loewis.
Added checks for integer overflows, contributed by Google. Some are
only available if asserts are left in the code, in cases where they
can't be triggered from Python code.
This might help fix some of the failures on Windows box(es). It doesn't hurt
either way and ensure the tests are a little more self contained (ie have
less assumptions).
- Specialcase extended slices that amount to a shallow copy the same way as
is done for simple slices, in the tuple, string and unicode case.
- Specialcase step-1 extended slices to optimize the common case for all
involved types.
- For lists, allow extended slice assignment of differing lengths as long
as the step is 1. (Previously, 'l[:2:1] = []' failed even though
'l[:2] = []' and 'l[:2:None] = []' do not.)
- Implement extended slicing for buffer, array, structseq, mmap and
UserString.UserString.
- Implement slice-object support (but not non-step-1 slice assignment) for
UserString.MutableString.
- Add tests for all new functionality.
array.extend() now accepts iterable arguments implements as a series
of appends. Besides being a user convenience and matching the behavior
for lists, this the saves memory and cycles that would be used to
create a temporary array object.
