to cover the case for:  "x,y,z=1,2,3".  Gives a 30% speed-up.

Also, added FOR_ITER to the list of opcodes that can jump.

(This is only the tip of the iceberg; the time and datetime classes
need the same treatment.)

  interpreted by slicing, so negative values count from the end of the
  list.  This was the only place where such an interpretation was not
  placed on a list index.

unexpected type, report the actual type rather than 'float'.  (It's
hard to even reach this code with a float. :-)

A small fix for bug #545855 and Greg Chapman's
addition of op code SRE_OP_MIN_REPEAT_ONE for
eliminating recursion on simple uses of pattern '*?' on a
long string.

After some more reflection (and no negative feedback), I am reverting the
original patch and applying my version, cygwinccompiler.py-shared.diff,
instead.

My reasons are the following:

1. support for older toolchains is retained
2. support for new toolchains (i.e., ld -shared) is added

The goal of my approach is to avoid breaking older toolchains while adding
better support for newer ones.

Fix memory leak in dialect_init().

the code erroneously decrefed the istep argument in an error case.  This
caused a co_consts tuple to lose a float constant prematurely, which
eventually caused gc to try executing static data in floatobject.c (don't
ask <wink>).  So reworked this extensively to ensure refcount correctness.

Fix error in description of logging package's 'propagate'
Mention default arg to dict.pop()
Link to more module docs
   (I wonder if I should adopt some convention such as linking the first
    mention of all new modules to the LibRef?)
Various text changes
Bump version number and Python version

to lookup properties declared in base classes. Looking at it I'm not sure
what the official scope if the property codes is, maybe it is only the
(OSA) class in which they are used. But giving them global scope hasn't been
a problem so far.

Regenerated the standard suites, which are now also space-indented.

(thanks to Neal Norwitz for the code review, BTW)

make csv_{get,unregister}_dialect METH_O functions to avoid PyArg_ParseTuple

conditionally exclude Unicode functions

to iso-8859-1.

GNUTranslations._parse(): Back out the addition of a test for
Project-ID-Version in the metadata.  This was deliberately removed in
response to SF patch #700839.

Also, re-organize the code in _parse() so we parse the metadata header
containing the charset parameter before we try to decode any strings
using charset.

- range() now works even if the arguments are longs with magnitude
  larger than sys.maxint, as long as the total length of the sequence
  fits.  E.g., range(2**100, 2**101, 2**100) is the following list:
  [1267650600228229401496703205376L].  (SF patch #707427.)

- Expose NullTranslations and GNUTranslations to __all__

- Set the default charset to iso-8859-1.  It used to be None, which
would cause problems with .ugettext() if the file had no charset
parameter.  Arguably, the po/mo file would be broken, but I still think
iso-8859-1 is a reasonable default.

- Add a "coerce" default argument to GNUTranslations's constructor.  The
reason for this is that in Zope, we want all msgids and msgstrs to be
Unicode.  For the latter, we could use .ugettext() but there isn't
currently a mechanism for Unicode-ifying msgids.

The plan then is that the charset parameter specifies the encoding for
both the msgids and msgstrs, and both are decoded to Unicode when read.
For example, we might encode po files with utf-8. I think the GNU
gettext tools don't care.

Since this could potentially break code [*] that wants to use the
encoded interface .gettext(), the constructor flag is added, defaulting
to False.  Most code I suspect will want to set this to True and use
.ugettext().

- A few other minor changes from the Zope project, including asserting
that a zero-length msgid must have a Project-ID-Version header for it to
be counted as the metadata record.

Update configure and test to use proper timezone specifications

missing bits (well, all the bits I could think of) and updated the
rest.

The module would exist, but be empty if already imported.
This change ensures we have gzip available.

 * Doc - add doc for when functions were added
 * UserString
 * string object methods
 * string module functions
'chars' is used for the last parameter everywhere.

These changes will be backported, since part of the changes
have already been made, but they were inconsistent.

return.  Setting an exception can mess with the exception state, and
continuing is definitely wrong (since type is dereferenced later on).
Some code that calls this seems to be prepared for a NULL exception
type, so let's be safe rather than sorry and simply assume there's
nothing to normalize in this case.

(contributed by Brett Cannon)