tests/test-basic

util: improved the check for the existence of the 'buffer' builtin

2to3 is unable to translate '__builtin__' calls to 'builtins' when
hasattr is used (as in hasattr(__builtin__, buffer)). Translating the
check to the format

try:
    whatever
except NameError
    # define whatever
    __builtin__.whatever = whatever

is a correct way of checking for the name and has the benefit of being
translated by 2to3. This patch implements the same idea for the
aforementioned example.

#!/bin/sh

mkdir t
cd t
hg init
echo a > a
hg add a
hg commit -m test -d "1000000 0"
hg history
hg manifest --debug
hg cat a
hg verify