py3: use range instead of xrange xrange is not available on Python 3. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2074

py3: use open() instead of file() file() is not present in Python 3. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2073

py3: use pycompat.bytestr to convert _b85chars to bytes The tranformer does append b'' to the value and make that a bytes but bytes in Python 3 returns the ascii value on getting characters using indexing. Characters of this string are queried using indexing multiple times in the file and to support that we use pycompat.bytestr which returns the bytechrs using indexing. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2072

py3: use pycompat.bytechr instead of chr Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2071

py3: use pycompat.ziplist instead of zip zip returns a zip object instead of a list on Python 3. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2070

patches: move assignment outside the conditional Having this movement in its own patch will make the next patch clearer.

sshpeer: remove support for connecting to <0.9.1 servers (BC) 197d10e157ce made this change for the HTTP peer. Let's do the same for the SSH peer. Test output changes as expected. A redundant test has been dropped. .. bc:: Support for connecting to Mercurial servers older than 0.9.1 has been removed. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2036