do something non-useless on Win9X boxes.  WinME unknown to me.  Someone with
NT/2000 make sure it still works there!

Compile shared object files using -fPIC option when using GCC on Solaris (SF
patch #103865).  Closes bug #132783.  Move config.c generated by makesetup to
the Modules directory.

target now removes some configure files (like it did before).

less likely that bug #132817 ever appears again)

(fixes bug #132815)

- removed __all__ cruft from internal modules (sorry, skip)
- don't assume ASCII for string escapes (sorry, per)

Just mentioning that in the NEWS file.

function implementations.

They're actually complaining about something more specific, an assignment
in a lambda as an actual argument, so that Python parses the
lambda as if it were a keyword argument.  Like f(lambda x: x[0]=42).
The "lambda x: x[0]" part gets parsed as if it were a keyword, being
bound to 42, and the resulting error msg didn't make much sense.

to be exported

- Make sure splash screens are visible

ConfigurePython now comes in two flavors: ConfigurePythonClassic and ConfigurePythonCarbon, which copy the respective interpreters to PythonInterpreter and rebuild all the applets. This allows MacOS9 users to switch back and forth.

Allow selecting a template in findtemplate(), so Classic programs can build Carbon applets and vice-versa.

Miserable hack to replace the previous miserable hack in maybe_pyc_file.

Removed trailing ";" in instances of "};" closing code blocks.

start columns differ (editing had pushed them all into column 0).

Close some environments so that this will actually format.

Checking in Moshe's patch after rewrapping some paragraphs (to consume
fewer columns) and repairing that I/2.**J lost the I.

    value for it, as suggested in bug #129854.  This prevents an old
    PYTHONPATH confusing setup.py (say, if it results in Python finding
    an old version of the Distutils)

    [k for k in dir() if k[0] != "_"]
can be used to get the non-private names (used to contain "[1]").

    This partially fixes bug #128930.

Makefile.pre.in was added in 1.4

incorporating them in a vanilla Python under MacOSX (i.e. in a
non-MacPython-Python). Not complete and up-to-date right now, but
that'll be fixed shortly.

compiled only for some versions of Expat, but was no longer needed as the
new implementation works for all versions.  Keeping it created multiple
definitions for Expat 1.2, which caused compilation to fail.