Merged revisions 70628 via svnmerge from

Merged revisions 70628 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r70628 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-26 16:49:58 -0500 (Thu, 26 Mar 2009) | 31 lines

  Merged revisions 70518,70521,70590,70594-70595 via svnmerge from
  svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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    r70518 | matthias.klose | 2009-03-22 08:08:22 -0500 (Sun, 22 Mar 2009) | 2 lines

    - Fix comment macro in python.man
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    r70521 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-03-22 12:45:11 -0500 (Sun, 22 Mar 2009) | 1 line

    close the file even if an exception occurs #5536
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    r70590 | skip.montanaro | 2009-03-24 19:52:11 -0500 (Tue, 24 Mar 2009) | 1 line

    clarify the type of data returned
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    r70594 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2009-03-25 14:44:58 -0500 (Wed, 25 Mar 2009) | 9 lines

    Remove the sys.version_info shortcut, since they cause the APIs
    to return different information than the _sys_version() output
    used in previous Python versions.

    This also fixes issue5561: platform.python_version_tuple returns tuple of ints, should be strings

    Added more tests for the various platform functions.
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    r70595 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2009-03-25 14:45:33 -0500 (Wed, 25 Mar 2009) | 3 lines

    News item for the platform.py fix (r70594).
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