(Reported by Drew Perttula.)

  comes from and show the differences from lists).
* Add a rotate() method.

* Let deques support reversed().

This matches what is already documented for corresponding feature of the C API.

* Add unittests, newsitem, and whatsnew
* Apply to Queue.py mutex.py threading.py pydoc.py and shlex.py
* Docs are forthcoming

(could someone backport this to Python 2.3.x please?)

closes SF bug #871402

Several style fixes are suggested by Martin v. Loewis and
Marc-Andre Lemburg. Thanks!

- fix some markup

as "This is the same format as used by gl.lrectwrite() and the imgfile
module."  This implies a certain byte order in multi-byte pixel
formats.  However, the code was originally written on an SGI
(big-endian) and *uses* the fact that bytes are stored in a particular
order in ints.  This means that the code uses and produces different
byte order on little-endian systems.

This fix adds a module-level flag "backward_compatible" (default not
set, and if not set, behaves as if set to 1--i.e. backward compatible)
that can be used on a little-endian system to use the same byte order
as the SGI.  Using this flag it is then possible to prepare
SGI-compatible images on a little-endian system.

This patch is the result of a (small) discussion on python-dev and was
submitted to SourceForge as patch #874358.

- rearranged a bit to avoid duplicated information
- provide more complete (and hopefully less confusing) descriptions of
  the return values for most of these functions
  (close SF bug #563298)

closes SF bug #825810

(Contributed by George Yoshida.)

conversion).  Hopefully I've not messed up the formatting.

- rearrange so two small sections become one; this avoids an extra
  page in the HTML format