readline in all python versions is configured
    to append a 'space' character for a successful
    completion. But for almost all python expressions
    'space' is not wanted (see coding conventions PEP 8).
    For example if you have a function 'longfunction'
    and you type 'longf<TAB>' you get 'longfunction '
    as a completion. note the unwanted space at the
    end.

    The patch fixes this behaviour by setting readline's
    append_character to '\0' which means don't append
    anything. This doesn't work with readline < 2.1
    (AFAIK nowadays readline2.2 is in good use).

    An alternative approach would be to make the
    append_character
    accessable from python so that modules like
    the rlcompleter.py can set it to '\0'.

[Ed.: I think expecting readline >= 2.2 is fine.  If a completer wants
another character they can append that to the keyword in the list.]

- Add comment explaining the structure of the stack.
- Minor optimization: make stack tuple directly usable as part of return
  value for enter/exit events.

and got confused by certain log files.  Remove logreader_refill and the
associated logic and replace with fgetc.

Patch 560023 adding docstrings.  2.2 Candidate (after verifying modules were not updated after 2.2).

that are in the process of deprecation (PendingDeprecationWarning).
Docs could be improved.

UINT4.

[ 558914 ] Build md5.c fails on Cray T3E

I've also deleted a comment that I didn't understand.  Feel free to
put it back if it makes/made sense to you.

Using Unicode-aware methods may still die with a NameError on unicode.
Maybe there's a more elegant solution but I doubt anybody cares.)

literals must not contain \u, \U or \N escapes.  (XXX Should they also
not contain non-ASCII characters?)

in there, and convert it to "rb" (or "r" for non-universal-newline builds)
before passing it to fopen().

Fixes #561326.

(or how do I "mark" something to be a candidate?)

fixed an old buglet that caused bdb to be unable to
continue in the botframe, after a breakpoint was set.
the key idea is not to set botframe to the bottom level frame,
but its f_back, which actually might be None.
Additional changes: migrated old exception trick to use
sys._getframe(), which exists both in 2.1 and 2.2 .

Note: I believe Mark Hammond needs to look over his code now.
F5 correctly starts up in the debugger, but later on doesn't stop at a given
breakpoint any longer.

kind regards - chris

[ 559250 ] more POSIX signal stuff

Adds support (and docs and tests and autoconfery) for posix signal
mask handling -- sigpending, sigprocmask and sigsuspend.

allow subclassing.

target.

whose tp_mro hasn't been initialized, it would dump core.  Fix this by
checking for NULL and calling PyType_Ready().  Will fix this in 2.2.1
too.

Other minor rewrites

  for 'str' and 'unicode', and can be used instead of
  types.StringTypes, e.g. to test whether something is "a string":
  isinstance(x, string) is True for Unicode and 8-bit strings.  This
  is an abstract base class and cannot be instantiated directly.

different free or alloc slot.

Remove 1.5.2 reference: who cares?

The old syntax suggested that a trailing comma was OK inside backticks,
but in fact (due to ideosyncrasies of pgen) it was not.  Fix the grammar
to avoid the ambiguity.  Fred: you may want to update the refman.

are disabled.

Should fix #492465.

and maintain. Fixes #557482.