changes to PCbuild, then I'll tag the tree and build the final tar
file, and we can shove this puppy OUT OF THE DOOR...!

licenses move to the back, so as not to annoy as many readers.

'release20-maint'.

the 2.0.1c1 release (which has already been built and pushed out to SF
and py.org), but will be correct in the 2.0.1 final release.

Does this require a matching update in the license as quoted in the
docs?

9-number gap looks odd here.

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revision 1.3
date: 2001/04/10 15:01:20;  author: gvanrossum;  state: Exp;  lines: +6 -0
Some other tests, when failing, don't always remove their TESTFN file.
Try to do it for them, so our mkdir() operation doesn't fail.
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revision 1.2
date: 2001/03/02 05:46:17;  author: gvanrossum;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -3
When catching errors from os.rmdir(), test for os.error, not IOError!
----------------------------

except I used OSError instead of os.error.

was applied to urllib.py, but the corresponding change to
test_urllib.py was not applied.  Backport revision 1.6 of this file
into the 2.0 maintenance branch.

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revision 1.6
date: 2001/01/19 07:00:08;  author: tim_one;  state: Exp;  lines: +8 -3
urllib.py very recently changed to produce uppercase escapes, but no
corresponding changes were made to its std test.
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branch.

interactive examples.  Error noted by Dinu Gherman.

references; clarified the version.

license as for 2.1.

Quoting orignal message:
'''
Fix from the Madusa mailing list:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/medusa/message/333

It's clear that Medusa should not be checking for an empty buffer
via "buf is ''".  The patch merely changes "is" to "==".  However,
there's a mystery here all the same:  Python attempts to store null
strings uniquely, so it's unclear why "buf is ''" ever returned
false when buf actually was empty.  *Some* string operations produce
non-unique null strings, e.g.
'''

This fixes many bugs, and was proposed by Thomas Heller.
Original log message:
'''
Checkin updated version of patch #103933 .  As Thomas says, fixes the bugs
#131064, #129584, #127722. See the discussion in bug #131064
'''

            didn't work, whether specified on the command-line or in setup.cfg.
- distutils/command/build_ext.py - make docstrings raw
- #128930 - distutils/command/build_ext.py - split rpath argument
Suggested by AMK, but had to be massaged a bit from the cvs diff

backported by Martin van Lowis

                                 filenames

                        an invalid 401 request is being handled.
- urllib.py - provide simple recovery/escape from apparent redirect recursion
- #129288 - urllib.py - chanign %02x to %02X in quoting
- urllib.py - HTTPS now works with string URLs

  which can be called from a start tag handler.  When the corresponding end
  tag is read the flag is cleared.  However, it didn't get cleared when
  the start tag was for an empty element of the type <tag .../>.  This
  modification fixes the problem.