case of objects with equal types which support tp_compare. Give
type objects a tp_compare function.
Also add c<0 tests before a few PyErr_Occurred tests.

need to understand about the binary & decimal fp, so that representation
weirdness is documented somewhere.  This makes it easier to repond to "bug"
reports caused by user confusion & ignorance of the issues.

This closes SF patch #426208.

module is __main__ and once when module is imported.

about setting up the dispatch table, and update the OldProfile and
HotProfile classes to the current implementations, showing the adjusted
construction for the dispatch table.

    that should be used to cache an interned version of the event
    string passed to the profile/trace function.  call_trace() will
    create interned strings and cache them in using the storage
    specified by this additional parameter, avoiding a lot of string
    object creation at runtime when using the profiling or tracing
    functions.

All call sites are modified to pass the additional parameter, and four
static PyObject* variables are allocated to cache the interned string
objects.

This closes SF patch #431257.

Ensure that all the default timers are called as functions, not an
expensive method wrapper around a variety of different functions.

Agressively avoid dictionary lookups.

Modify the dispatch scheme (Profile.trace_dispatch_*(), where * is not
'call', 'exception' or 'return') so that the callables dispatched to
are simple functions and not bound methods -- this reduces the number
of layers of Python call machinery that gets touched.

Remove a couple of duplicate imports from the "if __name__ == ..."
section.

This closes SF patch #430948.

with the addition of the euro character.
Also added a few EDBDIC aliases.

use faster code for base64.encodestring (courtesy of Mr. Tim Peters)
and for base64.decodestring (courtesy of Anthony Baxter)

Makefile and used by the setup.py script.  Ignore it in .cvsignore;
remove it in "make clobber".

Add reference to the documentation for the Python documentation markup.

Fixed up a couple of descriptions.

This closes SF bug #430627.

Suggested by the comments in SF bug #430627.

Also protect against multiple inclusion.

(Just a change to a comment)

the availability of nested scoping in Python 2.1 and 2.2.

config.txt).

*** This is a bugfix-release candidate (for 2.1.1 and 2.0.1)! ***

frequently used, and in particular this allows to drop the last
remaining obvious time-waster in the crucial lookdict() and
lookdict_string() functions.  Other changes consist mostly of changing
"i < ma_size" to "i <= ma_mask" everywhere.

  - actually return a result
  - Compare with tag.localName in getElementsByTagNameNSHelper

be possible to provoke unbounded recursion now, but leaving that to someone
else to provoke and repair.
Bugfix candidate -- although this is getting harder to backstitch, and the
cases it's protecting against are mondo contrived.

This code is likely to get even hairier to squash core dumps due to
mutating comparisons, and it's hard enough to follow without that.

In particular, the affect on existing list content was not sufficiently
explained.

This closes SF bug #429554.

Bugfix candidate.

converting to string.
Critical bugfix candidate -- if you take this seriously <wink>.