support for the last_is_sticky flag.  A few hard to find bugs may be
fixed by this patch since the old code was buggy.

Tkinter work under Cygwin.  Accepted on faith & reasonableness.

default value's instance unless it's absolutely necessary.

	test -d "$directory"

to

	test ! -z "directory" -a -d "directory"

Apparently, on SunOS 4.1.4_JL (and other?) OSes, -d on an empty string
always returns true.  This closes SF bug #115392.

By D.K. Wolfe.

This should not be used for new code, but will probably make porting
old extensions to 2.0 a lot easier.

Also see Bug #116011.

result-object-pointer that is passed in, when an exception occurs during
coercion. The pointer has to be explicitly initialized in the caller to avoid
putting trash on the Python stack.

Uses the new support module.

processing and style information directly.

a mkackshtml (not yet checked in).

The documentation ACKS list will be maintained separately from the
CPython ACKS list.

#define'd to an unreasonable value (several recent gcc systems have
misdefined it, causing bogus overflows in integer multiplication).  Nuke
CHAR_BIT entirely.

(I had explicitly disabled it a while ago, possibly unecessarily, along with
rgbimg, audioop, and imageop, which are advertised as "not for 64-bit
platforms.)

PyLong, was used for the return value of a class __hash__ method, which
*must* return a PyInt. Solution: hash() the id(self) value.

use of the float(), int(), and long() built-ins instead.

Fixed minor markup nit elsewhere (use of \optional).

in earlier versions of Python; this is useful information for people
interested in writing code that is portable across Python versions.

Suggested by Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>.

different browsers resolve the conflicts differently, and the "proper"
resolution is not what we actually want.

Reported by Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de>.

    of the text

more consistent with other index entries in the documentation.

the names of people that should be in the ACKS file.

This relies on some personal code that is not yet available, but should
be by the time we release 2.0c1.

after unicode_empty has been freed, otherwise it might not point to
the real start of the unicode_freelist.  Final closure for SF bug
#110681, Jitterbug PR#398.

methods.  Closes buglet #115845.

first scan.  Closes bug #115040.