There are two ways to use this -- as a filter (e.g. using C-U M-| on a
regex string literal in an Emacs buffer) or from a Python program
which imports this as a module.  Read the doc string for more info,
and also some caveats (some cases aren't handled right).

from regex to re style regular expressions.  This should make sgmllib
and htmllib threadsafe, so I can now create a threaded version of
webchecker...

syntax, by virtue of the new re module.

hopefully the last maintenance on this module, ever.

PyCObject_GetDesc().

Thanks to Daniel Larsson.

into 1.5a4.

reporting a "crash".

Use sys.exc_info() instead of sys.exc_type and sys.exc_value.

Also change all occurrences of "x == None" to "x is None" (not that it
matters much, these functions are all reimplemented in strop -- but
count() is not).

arguments to NNTP.__init__(), for nntp servers that need them.

"modulename.classname" instead of returning the same as repr().

longer exist in the general headers.

### If you still have sharedmodules in your Modules/Setup file, remove it! ###

Treat .pyo files like .pyc files.

code had the assignments switched around).

Also rename sharedmodules to lib-dynload.

to use the same, better words to explain start/end.

Also got rid of some unnecessary code.

since that's now the recommended way to do it.

In pickling discussion, change "code{pickle}" (not missing leading "\") to
"This" since the immediately preceeding sentence ended with the same text
(with the proper "\").  Fixes a formatting bug and an odd glitch in the
writing.

module documentation.