headers beyond the signed 2**31 byte boundary.

- Issue #1336: fix a race condition in subprocess.Popen if the garbage
  collector kicked in at the wrong time that would cause the process
  to hang when the child wrote to stderr.

Fix for #1303614 and #1174712:
- __dict__ descriptor abuse for subclasses of built-in types
- subclassing from both ModuleType and another built-in types

create a new weakref to the object.

- Issue829951: In the smtplib module, SMTP.starttls() now complies with
  RFC 3207 and forgets any knowledge obtained from the server not obtained
  from the TLS negotiation itself.  Patch contributed by Bill Fenner.

  Fix a potential 'SystemError: NULL result without error'.
  NULL may be a valid return value from PyLong_AsVoidPtr.
Also move an older ctypes NEWS item in the correct category.

Fix 1698398:  Zipfile.printdir() crashed because the format string expected a tuple object of length six instead of a time.struct_time object.

Merged revisions 59925 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk/Modules/_ctypes

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  r59925 | thomas.heller | 2008-01-11 20:34:06 +0100 (Fr, 11 Jan 2008) | 5 lines

  Raise an error instead of crashing with a segfault when a NULL
  function pointer is called.

  Will backport to release25-maint.
........

wrong. Fix issue 1774.

for any integral Decimal instance x.

the art.  It now complies latest specification and tests.

The only difference of this version with the one in the trunk
is that a small subset that hash tests were removed, because
they rely on modifications to core hash() function (see
issue 1182 for further details).

Patch 1114: fix compilation of curses module on 64-bit AIX, and any other LP64 platforms where attr_t isn't a C long

Patch #1637: fix urlparse for URLs like 'http://x.com?arg=/foo'.
Fix by John Nagle.

Add a hack (originally devised in a slightly different form by Thomas Wouters)
to prevent spurious tracebacks when a daemon thread's cleanup happens to wake
up when the world around it has already been destroyed.

This also backports other small changes to this file, essentially making
it identical to the trunk version.

permissions and times.

(backport from r59712)

Regular Expression inline flags not handled correctly for some unicode
characters.

reveals that a lot more are missing.  If you checked anything into the
2.5.2 branch without updating Misc/NEWS, please correct your mistake!

ctypes 1.0.3 will be also be released).