[PATCH 0/5] Python improvements.

[Cyril Roelandt]

This patch series, meant to be applied on the core-updates branch, brings a
bunch of improvements to the Python package.

The first one fixes bug #16569. The second one uses /nix/.../sh in the
subprocess module if /bin/sh is not available. I know Mark is not too found of
using /bin/sh if it is available, but I think Python users are willing to use
/bin/sh, that might be a symlink to whatever shell they may want to use. I don't
really feel too strongly about it, so if people agree on always using
/nix/.../sh, let's go with it, just let me know what you think. The last three
patches are (almost) trivial.


Regards,
Cyril.
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Cyril Roelandt (5):
  gnu: Enable the 'ctypes' module in Python.
  gnu: Python: use /nix/.../sh if /bin/sh cannot be found
  gnu: Enable tests in Python 3.
  gnu: Python: bump to 3.3.4
  gnu: remove python-fix-dbm.patch

 gnu-system.am                               |  2 +-
 gnu/packages/patches/python-fix-dbm.patch   | 20 ----------
 gnu/packages/patches/python-fix-tests.patch | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 gnu/packages/python.scm                     | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
 4 files changed, 111 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/python-fix-dbm.patch
 create mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/python-fix-tests.patch

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