This patch removes a vestige part of the Cygwin make rules
that didn't quite make it over during the flattening of the
Makefiles. In its current form, it creates a def file but
incorrectly calls it libpython$(VERSION).dll.a which
immediately gets overwritten by the next command.
Obviously, this is useless. It appears, it was useless
in the old nested Makefile structure too. :,)

Closes patch 556161.

Raymond Hettinger, beware!  This caused the Unix install to fail!

Scot Stevenson.  Could be a bug fix candidate, but probably doesn't
matter much unless a certain blue-nosed cat suddenly becomes corporeal
and starts emailing some stmp.py (sic) fronted mailer.

which fixes the unnecessarily restricted method domain.

Partial solution to SF bug 527139.

Added typechecking to the individual python->CF converters, so we can use them in the CF object initializers safely.

returned a proxy for __class__ whose __bases__ was also a proxy.  The
merge_class_dict() helper for dir() assumed incorrectly that __bases__
would always be a tuple and used the in-line tuple API on the proxy.

I will backport this to 2.2 as well.

following IAC.  Bugfix candidate if anyone cares.

I have a patch to make the test work too, but it's not pretty so
I'll submit it to sf.

stringobject.c compiles again with --disable-unicode.

Fixes SF bug http://www.python.org/sf/554912

feature request 426539.

Closes patch 552452 and feature request 426539.

feature request 426539.

- Manually generate a routine with funny error semantics.

save-excursion so that when the function is complete, point is
preserved.

NOT a bugfix candidate:  this is a fix to an optimization introduced
in 2.3.

test if 'callable' has not been supplied is to test for None instead of
False.  The previous correction to 'if callable()' was wrong because an unusable
callback would be ignored rather than raising an exception.

Type class unification invalidated the statement:  x.__getitem__[i] is not equivalent to x[i].

Closes SF bug #554644.

- Started on supporting CFPropertyLists.

Add some credits
Fill in a link

Start fleshing out the "Examples" section.

The zipfile module has been in the standard library for some time now.

Clarify explanations of header file search directories.

Closes SF bug #554257.  Not relevant to older releases.

Fixed string and dict conversion, and implemented booleans and numbers (int and float). I think we now have enough CFType support to start on plists and CFpreferences!

Transparent handling of unknown CFType objects still TBD.