no backwards compatibility to worry about, so I just pushed the
'closure' struct member to the back -- it's never used in the current
code base (I may eliminate it, but that's more work because the getter
and setter signatures would have to change.)

As examples, I added actual docstrings to the getset attributes of a
few types: file.closed, xxsubtype.spamdict.state.

allows using the tests with unittest.py as a script.  The tests will
still run when run as a script themselves.

compatibility, this required all places where an array of "struct
memberlist" structures was declared that is referenced from a type's
tp_members slot to change the type of the structure to PyMemberDef;
"struct memberlist" is now only used by old code that still calls
PyMember_Get/Set.  The code in PyObject_GenericGetAttr/SetAttr now
calls the new APIs PyMember_GetOne/SetOne, which take a PyMemberDef
argument.

As examples, I added actual docstrings to the attributes of a few
types: file, complex, instance method, super, and xxsubtype.spamlist.

Also converted the symtable to new style getattr.

"new in 2.2" blurb at the end.  Replace open()'s text by pointing back
to file().

Document many more of the PyLong_{As,From}*() functions.

char *.

elements which are not Unicode objects or strings. (This matches
the string.join() behaviour.)

Fix a memory leak in the .join() method which occurs in case
the Unicode resize fails.

Restore the test_unicode output.

library.

Update README.

we can't trust that tp_basicsize is aligned.  Fixes SF bug #462848.

works just like str(obj) in that it tries __str__/tp_str on the object
in case it finds that the object is not a string or buffer.

codecs -- the self argument does matter for Python functions (it
does not for C functions which most other codecs use).

Now they don't.

their own test suite from a multitude of classes (like test_email.py
will be doing).

run_unittest(): Call run_suite() after making a suite from the
testclass.

inspect.getargspec(obj), test isfunction() directly in pydoc.py instead
of trying to indirectly deduce isfunction() in pydoc by virtue of
failing a combination of other tests.  This shouldn't have any visible
effect, except perhaps to squash a TypeError death if there was some path
thru this code that was inferring isfunction() by mistake.

both return true.  This restores pydoc's ability to deduce argument lists
for functions and methods coded in Python.

pydoc how to do something sensible with 2.2 descriptors.  To see the
difference, browse __builtin__ via pydoc before and after the patch.

Remove all these files.  All except astgen.py are moved to Lib/compiler.

__init__.py module to raise errors which can be catched as LookupErrors
as well as SystemErrors.

Modified the error messages to include more information about the
failing module.

float (compare the recent checkin to complex).  Added tests for these.