debugextensions: simply keep testedwith variable as a list There should be no need to distinguish [] and None.

test-treemanifest: ensure manifest command isn't broken I realized we weren't testing this while hunting a broken manifest command bug that ended up being narrowhg's fault.

py3: use unicode literals in pure/osutil.py The first element of _fields_ tuples must be a str in Python 3. Also fix some function calls that were also expecting str.

py3: use unicode literals in crecord.py

py3: use unicode literals in changelog.py collections.namedtuple type and field names must be str in Python 3. Our custom module importer was rewriting them to bytes literals, making this fail. In addition, __slots__ values must also be unicode.

mpatch: write a cffi version of mpatch.patches

mpatch: remove dependency on Python.h in mpatch.c Now all the CPython-related stuff are referenced only from mpatch_module.c with mpatch.c being freely usable from a future cffi module

mpatch: split mpatch into two files

mpatch: provide things that will be exported later with a prefixed name For cffi a bunch of mpatch functions need to be visible through a .h file. This change renames them so it won't create potential c namespace conflicts.

mpatch: change Py_ssize_t to ssize_t in places that will be later copied