before raising SystemExit, allowing IDLE to honor quit() and exit().

M    Lib/site.py
M    Lib/idlelib/PyShell.py
M    Lib/idlelib/CREDITS.txt
M    Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
M    Misc/NEWS

taken from a Debian patch.  Should we update the version for each release?

to work correctly with modules imported from zipfiles or via other PEP 302
__loader__ objects.  Tests and doc updates are included.

interpreter to exit.

Fixed to keep backwards-compatibility for the undocumented function.

Closes bug #986795.

match old verion's argument list (overlooked since API of the file is
undocumented).

New regression test suite.

existent path.  Pointed out by jvr that entries could be non-file items for
custom importers.

all whitespace at the end of the path line.

no major codepages unsupported by Python, so remove the eg. case.

From SF patch #852334.

library search path to include the extension directory.  Without this,
the curses_panel extension can't find the curses extension/DLL, which
exports some curses symbols to it.

(From SF patch #810751)

Fixes #747954.

riscospath.extsep, and use os.extsep throughout.

~/Library/Python/2.3/site-packages to sys.path, if it exists.

- new import hooks in import.c, exposed in the sys module
- new module called 'zipimport'
- various changes to allow bootstrapping from zip files

I hope I didn't break the Windows build (or anything else for that
matter), but then again, it's been sitting on sf long enough...

Regarding the latest discussions on python-dev: zipimport sets
pkg.__path__ as specified in PEP 273, and likewise, sys.path item such as
/path/to/Archive.zip/subdir/ are supported again.

Bugfix candidate for 2.2.2.

permission from Paul Everitt).  Also removed a few other references to
Digital Creations and changed the remaining ones to Zope Corporation.

  Lib/
    os.py
    os2emxpath.py   // added - OS/2 EMX specific path manipulation routines
    popen2.py
    site.py
  Lib/test/
    test_fcntl.py
    test_longexp.py

values in for loops (dircase, prefix, sitedir).

paren.  This was there to worm around a stupid XEmacs bug, but since I
can't tickle the bug in newer XEmacsen (just tried w/21.4.5) it's
possible the problem has been fixed.  We shouldn't have to be working
around editor bugs anyway.

If it crops up again, I'll report it (again) to the XEmacs crowd.

is not found).  Being fancy: insert the first 3 characters of
sys.version in the URL.

- Do not compile unicodeobject, unicodectype, and unicodedata if Unicode is disabled
- check for Py_USING_UNICODE in all places that use Unicode functions
- disables unicode literals, and the builtin functions
- add the types.StringTypes list
- remove Unicode literals from most tests.

can be on sys.path too.