_do_ioctl_1() so they take a file descriptor rather than an oss_t
pointer.

  * rename oss_t to lad_t, Ladtype to OSSType,
  * rename lad_*() methods to oss_*()
  * rename lad_methods list to oss_methods
Patch and impetus supplied by Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale <wzdd@lardcave.net>.

efficient.  Suggested by MAL.

configuration selection. Rework the usage message to match.

Also some minor code polishing.

Barry agreed, and I see no reason not to.

the obvious s/linuxaudiodev/ossaudiodev/ change made.

Most of these patches are from Thomas Heller, with long lines folded
by Tim.  The change to test_descr.py is from Guido.  See the bug report.

Not a bugfix candidate -- METH_CLASS is new in 2.3.

input, and 2) unicode input means unicode output.  This closes
SF bug #622831.

Change LongWordTestCase.setUp() -- remove leading whitespace from
  text string.
Comment fix.

the input string is always preserved.

attribute, and modify _munge_whitespace() to recognize Unicode strings
and use unicode_whitespace_trans to munge them.  Still need to add a
test to make sure I've really fixed the bug.

suggestion by Raymond Hettinger.

this can result in significantly smaller files.  All classes as well as the
open function now accept an optional binary parameter, which defaults to
False for backward compatibility.  Added a small test suite, updated the
libref documentation (including documenting the exported classes and fixing
a few other nits) and added a note about the change to Misc/NEWS.

tests.  I found the logic too confusing to follow here, so rewrote more
than was likely absolutely necessary.

Bugfix candidate.

is present and libndbm is not. Add runtime libs to dbm if linked against
Berkeley DB.

heapsort and verifies the result against list.sort().

Added related testcase.
Closes SF bug #643260.

Closes SF 643227.

Simplifies the code and gets Just van Rossum's example to work.