- Revise abstract based on Guido's comments from way back.
- Point out that LaTeX is a structured system & we're using it that
  way.
- Add a small section on marking up code examples.

from Gerry Weiner <gerry@ucar.edu>.

<sfranke@cdc-group.com>.

Franke <sfranke@cdc-group.com>.

<gerrit.holl@pobox.com>.

Read the comments (which I reformatted using the new feature :-)
for some limitations.

reformatted some comment blocks to show off a cool feature I'm about
to check in next.

<BennettBenson@mn.mediaone.net>.

this functionality is not present (e.g. when used with a vintage
Python 1.5.2 installation) top-level functions are not listed.

(Hmm...  Any distribution of IDLE 0.5 should probably include a copy
of the new pyclbr.py!)

on Win95 & Win98.

list of lines returned by get_region() contains an empty line at the
end representing the start of the next line, and this shouldn't be
commented out!

Hammond: record top-level functions (as Function instances, a simple
subclass of Class).  You must use the new interface readmodule_ex() to
get these, though.

class creation - tries to locate an __init__ function.  Also updated
the test code to reflect your new "***" change.

CallTipWindow from the text control makes sense, and actually makes
the control look better IMO.

Ditto "***" for kwargs.

__init__.py it isn't read.  (Sjoerd just came up with this, so it's
not heavily tested.)

Other (yet unsolved) package problems noted by Sjoerd:

- If you have a package and a module inside that or another package
  with the same name, module caching doesn't work properly since the
  key is the base name of the module/package.
- The only entry that is returned when you readmodule a package is a
  __path__ whose value is a list which confuses certain class browsers
  that I wrote.  (Hm, this could be construed as a feature.)

0.5 MB of the 1 MB available by default for stack on Win32 platforms).

I've updated cPickle.c to use class exceptions:

Changed pickle error types to classes:

  PickleError
     PicklingError
        UnpickleableError
     UnpicklingError

And change the handling of unpickleable objects so that an UnpickleableError
is raised with the unpickleable object as the argument.  UnpickleableError
has a reasonable string representation and provides access to the problem
object, which is useful during debugging.

[I'm still waiting for patches to do the same to pickle.py.]

indicate to those that are using the CVS access that they are using a
newer-than-1.2.5 version, without committing to a particular version
number or patch level.

and quote_plus() can be optimized tenfold.

I've found two places where smtplib.py sends an extra trailing space
on command lines to the SMTP server.  I don't know if this ever causes
any problems, but I'd prefer to be on the safe side.  The enclosed
patch removes the extra space.

timestamp from GMT tuple.

unreachable -- but fall back to using whatever hostname we have.

math in the Chunk class.

Separate the Chunk class out of the aifc module into a new "chunk" module.

all processing instruction target names containing 'xml' were
rejected, instead (as the standard rejects) only the name 'xml' itself
(or case variants thereof).

'chmod()' in 'copy_file()'.

I guess in 1.5.2 a new module, whichdb, was added that attempts to
divine the nature of a database file.  This module doesn't know anything
about Berkeley DB v2 files.  In v2, Sleepycat added a 12-byte null pad
in front of the old magic numbers (at least for hash and btree files).
I've been using v2 for awhile and upgrading to 1.5.2 broke all my
anydbm.open calls. I believe the following patch corrects the problem.