Merged revisions 59234-59238 via svnmerge from

Merged revisions 59234-59238 via svnmerge from
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  r59237 | facundo.batista | 2007-11-30 18:15:25 +0100 (Fri, 30 Nov 2007) | 4 lines

  Reordering of __new__ to minimize isinstance() calls to most
  used types. Thanks Mark Dickinson.
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  r59238 | christian.heimes | 2007-11-30 20:18:08 +0100 (Fri, 30 Nov 2007) | 6 lines

  Removed or replaced some more deprecated preprocessor macros.
  Moved the _DEBUG and NDEBUG macros to two new property files.
  Fixed #1527 Problem with static libs on Windows
  Updated README.txt
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