The attached patch set includes a workaround to get Python with
Unicode compile on BSDI 4.x (courtesy Thomas Wouters; the cause
is a bug in the BSDI wchar.h header file) and Python interfaces
for the MBCS codec donated by Mark Hammond.

Also included are some minor corrections w/r to the docs of
the new "es" and "es#" parser markers (use PyMem_Free() instead
of free(); thanks to Mark Hammond for finding these).

The unicodedata tests are now in a separate file
(test_unicodedata.py) to avoid problems if the module cannot
be found.

This patch fixes the "search" command in imaplib. The problem
was that a search can take multiple arguments, but as defined,
would only accept one.

I have also made changes to the test code at the end to be less
verbose by default, but to accept a verbosity argument.

self.parser to be None; in that case don't dereference it in
getnames().

8.0.  There really is no excuse, and for who really still wants those,
they can go back to Python 1.5.2.

- new script/applet BuildCGIApplet
This largely supercedes :Mac:Demos:cgi, except for the html doc file. Should it move here? Merged with CGI_README.txt?
Todo: fullbuild support.
(jvr)

Martin von Loewis (whose more elaborate patch to use objects is still
under review).

The robotparser.py module currently lives in Tools/webchecker.  In
preparation for its migration to Lib, I made the following changes:

    * renamed the test() function _test
    * corrected the URLs in _test() so they refer to actual documents
    * added an "if __name__ == '__main__'" catcher to invoke _test()
      when run as a main program
    * added doc strings for the two main methods, parse and can_fetch
    * replaced usage of regsub and regex with corresponding re code

fixed several event handling buglets, added command Q support, added a new module doc string, some formatting nits. (jvr)

handle OSError and DistutilsExecError now.

rather than None.

Fixed 'build_extensions()' to pay attention to the 'rpath' element of the
  'build_info' dictionary.

  we don't know what to do with it when we see it.
Call '_fix_object_args()' and/or '_fix_lib_args()' as appropriate, rather
  than just '_fix_link_args()'.

  use it when linking.
Call '_fix_object_args()' and/or '_fix_lib_args()' as appropriate, rather
  than just '_fix_link_args()'.

Split '_fix_link_args()' up into '_fix_object_args()' (for use of
  'create_static_lib() and link methods) and '_fix_lib_args()' (for the
  link methods only).

cgitest.cgi.rsrc: disable argv emulation; this is essential for the first time the cgi applet starts up

Added "better safe than sorry" patch to the new
trashcan code in object.c, to ensure that tstate
is not touched when it might be undefined.

Attached you find the latest update of the Unicode implementation.
The patch is against the current CVS version.

It includes the fix I posted yesterday for the core dump problem
in codecs.c (was introduced by my previous patch set -- sorry),
adds more tests for the codecs and two new parser markers
"es" and "es#".

argument format strings.

THIS WILL PROBABLY BREAK LOTS OF CODE!!!

Also fixed a bogus string in an error message in getsockaddrlen().

argument: a (host, port) tuple.

Like multi-arg append(), multi-arg connect() and bind() may be ruled out!

Andy Robinson noted a core dump in the codecs.c file. This
was introduced by my latest patch which fixed a memory leak
in codecs.c. The bug causes all successful codec lookups to fail.

   a Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS/Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS block, but it
   calls Py_BLOCK_THREADS anyway. The change moves Py_BLOCK_THREADS
   to inside the if, so it's only executed when the function
   actually returns unexpectedly.

cmp is not used in freeze, but is imported anyway.  What's worse, cmp
is no longer in the library, so freeze won't work like this.

returns a value.

Added comment about "--help" (no value) not working.

Deleted some crufty code.

completely (was already commented-out).

Python modules, pure and extensions.

Python and extensions, into the same directory.

longer needed, and can't possibly work anyways.