an exception.

Although this is a one-character change, more work needs to be done:
the compiler can get rid of a lot of non-nested-scopes code, the
documentation needs to be updated, the future statement can be
simplified, etc.

But this change enables the nested scope semantics everywhere, and
that's the important part -- we can now test code for compatibility
with nested scopes by default.

(Tim & I should agree on where to add new additions: I add them at the
top, Tim adds them at the bottom.  I like the top better because folks
who occasionally check out the NEWS file will see the latest news
first.)

instead of raising an error.  This was one of the two issues that the
VPython folks were particularly problematic for their students.  (The
other one was integer division...)  This implements (my) SF patch
#440487.

raising an error.  This was one of the two issues that the VPython
folks were particularly problematic for their students.  (The other
one was integer division...)  This implements (my) SF patch #440487.

raising an error.  This was one of the two issues that the VPython
folks were particularly problematic for their students.  (The other
one was integer division...)  This implements (my) SF patch #440487.

to sys.path if os.sep == ':' (Macs?).  See PEP 250.

could probably stand to have some of the internal things like Marshaller
documented.  But I think it does a decent job on the entry points and
externally visible things.

Fred and Fredrik, do your stuff!  You both need to proof this.

improves internal consistency in the documentation.

written.

Also note that it isn't just Linux nice() that is broken: at least FreeBSD
and BSDI also have this problem. os.nice() should probably just be emulated
using getpriority()/setpriority(), if they are available, but I'll get to
that later.

New test_fileinput.py from Nick Mathewson, fiddled to use TESTFN and sundry
style nits.

New test_uu.py from Nick Mathewson, fiddled to work on Windows too.
Somebody should check that it still works on non-Windows boxes, though!

concrete sequence objects, since their API is simpler.

This is in response to a comment in SF bug #440037.

Comment out descr-branch section
Update e-mail address
    (Time to begin writing this...)

polling objects.  This closes SF bug #439823.

Fixed a minor markup bug.

Work around Linux's nonstandard nice() systemcall, which does not return the
new priority.

This closes SF bug #439990.

When setting up the basic OPT value for GCC, only use optimization if
not using debugging mode.

Fix a typo in a comment in the IPv6 check.

decode():  While writing tests for uu.py, Nick Mathewson discovered
that the 'Truncated input file' exception could never get raised,
because its "if not str:" test was actually testing the builtin
function "str", not the local string vrbl "s" as intended.

Bugfix candidate.

fragile.  Now the leading "0x" on hex numbers are displayed as labels
and the type-in entry fields just accept the hex digits.  Be sure to
strip off the "0x" string when displaying hex values too.

Also, de-string-module-ification, and other Python 2.x improvements.

EOFError so any failures in unmarshalling are just ignored.  Use
print>> instead of sys.stderr.write().

De-string-module-ification.