Fixed the thread races.  Function forget_dir was also utterly Unix-specific.

Use test_support.verify() where applicable.

    about the internal initialization of instance objects.  Make the
    dict parameter optional, and allow None as equivalent to omission.

They're named as if public, so I did a Bad Thing by changing
PyMarshal_ReadObjectFromFile() to suck up the remainder of the file in one
gulp:  anyone who counted on that leaving the file pointer merely at the
end of the next object would be screwed.  So restored
PyMarshal_ReadObjectFromFile() to its earlier state, renamed the new greedy
code to PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile(), and changed Python internals to
call the latter instead.

- Change one last EXE to EXEEXT.

- Cygwin doesn't want CCSHARED flag when bulding the interpreter DLL.

Fix some unclear language in the description of the addrlist member.

Break cycle involving expat parser in close().
Add lex handler support to SAX2 pyexpat

Use nodeName, not tagName in attributes.
Provide get method for dictionary-like objects.
Use DOM exceptions instead of standard exceptions.

and an option is more friendly then manually setting a variable.

SF patch http://sourceforge.net/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=103453&group_id=5470
PyMember_Set of T_CHAR always raises exception.
Unfortunately, this is a use of a C API function that Python itself never makes, so
there's no .py test I can check in to verify this stays fixed.  But the fault in the
code is obvious, and Dave Cole's patch just as obviously fixes it.

    arguments instead to handle overrides provided on the make command line.

Fixed typo in message

   run setup.py with the --install-platlib flag so you can override
   'prefix' when running make (e.g. make prefix=/tmp/python/usr/local install)

Instead of using mkdir to create directories, use install -d (mkdir -p
   apparently isn't portable)

Emacs make-mode reported line 371 as suspicious; removed the whitespace from
   that line.

- Setup is now copied from Setup.dist by configure.

Add header comment and __version__

primarily from Evelyn Mitchell (thanks!).

This closes SF patch #103412.

if we can find the libtermcap in the usual places. Some platforms don't
have libtermcap, e.g. MacOSX.

1. skipping of extensions which cause an error (a warning message
   is written to stdout, but the build process no longer fails
   completely)

2. the readline extension to compile on SuSE Linux (and probably
   other platforms too) by adding /usr/lib/termcap to the library search
   path

building.