'release21-maint'.

sample startup script provided by Itamar Shtull-Trauring.

This closes SF patch #410890.

Add some logical markup where it was missing.

configure (1.220):

[Bug #438050] Check for sys/poll.h in configure script

[Bug #438050]
   Include sys/poll.h if it was found by the configure script.  The OpenGroup
   spec says poll.h is the correct header file to use, so that file is
   preferred.

Fix bug #437487: "2.1 build on Solaris fails if CC is set"
by adding the contents of CCSHARED to the compiler specified by CC

Check for slice/item deletion, which calls slice/item assignment with a NULL
value, and raise a TypeError instead of coredumping. Bugreport and suggested
fix by Alex Martelli.

Windows version of the function as well as the Unix flavor.

This fixes SF bug #441357.

special character bite us again.  ;-(

This fixes SF bug #440911.

That should be 2.0.

correctly. Note that 'faulty' should actually be spelled 'fawlty', but I
don't want those bugreports assigned to me ;)

matched; reported by Paul Moore.

- SF but #417587: compiler warnings compiling 2.1.
  Repaired *some* of the SGI compiler warnings Sjoerd Mullender
  reported.

- Minor fiddling related to
  SF patch 416251 2.1c1 mmapmodule: unused vrbl cleanup

- Fix the .find() method for memory maps.

  1) it didn't obey the "start" parameter (and when it does, we must
     validate the value)
  2) the return value needs to be an absolute index, rather than
     relative to some arbitrary point in the file

  (checking CVS, it appears this method never worked; these changes
   bring it into line with typical .find() behavior)


- Fix new compiler warnings.  Also boost "start" from (C) int to long and
  return a (C) long:  PyArg_ParseTuple and Py_BuildValue may not let
  us get at the size_t we really want, but C int is clearly too small
  for a 64-bit box, and both the start parameter and the return value
  should work for large mapped files even on 32-bit boxes.  The code
  really needs to be rethought from scratch (not by me, though ...).

SF bug 418615: regular expression bug in pipes.py.
Obviously bad regexps, spotted by Jeffery Collins.

SF bug 418296: WinMain.c should use WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN.
I believe Kevin Rodgers here!  The old WINDOWS_LEAN_AND_MEAN has, AFAICT,
always been wrong.

Also note that it isn't just Linux nice() that is broken: at least FreeBSD
and BSDI also have this problem. os.nice() should probably just be emulated
using getpriority()/setpriority(), if they are available, but that isn't
worth putting in 2.1.1.

concrete sequence objects, since their API is simpler.

This is in response to a comment in SF bug #440037.

(Does this really belong in the bugfix release?  Yes: this is a readability
bug, and those are important in the documentation.)

polling objects.  This closes SF bug #439823.

Fixed a minor markup bug.

Work around Linux's nonstandard nice() systemcall, which does not return the
new priority.

This closes SF bug #439990.

readline.c (2.36), and re-generated config.h.in and configure:

SF Patch #432457 by Jason Tishler: support for readline 4.2.

This patch allows the readline module to build cleanly with GNU
readline 4.2 without breaking the build for earlier GNU readline
versions.  The configure script checks for the presence of
rl_completion_matches in libreadline.

necessary in the 2.1 branch.) Guido's original checkin message:

A test suite for SocketServer.py that exposes the various bugs just
fixed.  Regrettably, this must be run manually -- somehow the I/O
redirection of the regression test breaks the test.  When run under
the regression test, this raises ImportError with a warning to that
effect.

'release21-maint'.

Fix various serious problems:

- The ThreadingTCPServer class and its derived classes were completely
  broken because the main thread would close the request before the
  handler thread had time to look at it.  This was introduced by
  Ping's close_request() patch.  The fix moves the close_request()
  calls to after the handler has run to completion in the BaseServer
  class and the ForkingMixIn class; when using the ThreadingMixIn,
  closing the request is the handler's responsibility.

- The ForkingUDPServer class has always been been broken because the
  socket was closed in the child before calling the handler.  I fixed
  this by simply not calling server_close() in the child at all.

- I cannot get the UnixDatagramServer class to work at all.  The
  recvfrom() call doesn't return a meaningful client address.  I added
  a comment to this effect.  Maybe it works on other Unix versions.

- The __all__ variable was missing ThreadingMixIn and ForkingMixIn.

- Bumped __version__ to "0.4".

- Added a note about the test suite (to be checked in shortly).

SF bug #438295: [Windows] __init__.py cause strange behavior

Probable fix (the bug report doesn't have enough info to say for sure).
find_init_module():  Insist on a case-sensitive match for __init__ files.
Given __INIT__.PY instead, find_init_module() thought that was fine, but
the later attempt to do find_module("__INIT__.PY") didn't and its caller
silently suppressed the resulting ImportError.  Now find_init_module()
refuses to accept __INIT__.PY to begin with.

SF patch #440144:  Tests and minor bugfix for uu module

decode():  While writing tests for uu.py, Nick Mathewson discovered
that the 'Truncated input file' exception could never get raised,
because its "if not str:" test was actually testing the builtin
function "str", not the local string vrbl "s" as intended.

PyObject_InitVar(), PyObject_Del(), PyObject_NEW(),
PyObject_NEW_VAR(), and PyObject_DEL().

Add notes to PyMem_Malloc() and PyMem_New() about the memory buffers
not being initialized.

This fixes SF bug #439012.


Added explicit return value information for PyList_SetItem(),
PyDict_SetItem(), and PyDict_SetItemString().  Corrected return type
for PyList_SET_ITEM().

Fixed index entries in the descriptions of PyLong_AsLong() and
PyLong_AsUnignedLong().

This fixes the API manual portion of SF bug #440037.


Note that the headers properly declare everything as 'extern "C"' for
C++ users.

Document _Py_NoneStruct.

Added links to the Extending & Embedding manual for PyArg_ParseTuple()
and PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords().

Added note that PyArg_Parse() should not be used in new code.

Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
translation more difficult, as well as reading the English more
difficult for non-native speakers.

information about them, based on comments from Jack Jansen.

The block/unblock thread macros are called 'Py_BLOCK_THREADS' and
'Py_UNBLOCK_THREADS', not 'Py_BEGIN_BLOCK_THREADS' and
'Py_BEGIN_UNBLOCK_THREADS'.

Symptom:  (1, 2, 3) <= (1, 2) returned 1.
Also an isomorphic error was in the list richcompare code.

name when filling in the internal data structures, otherwise we incorrectly
raise a KeyError.

This fixes SF bug #432369.

the os.W*() functions used to interpret the return value.

This fixes SF bug #429361.