(fixes #1119418).

even if there is an exception in later lines, resulting in
correct line numbers for decoding errors in source code. Fixes #1178484.

Docs were missing the name/bases/dict form of type().

(Much of the wording contributed by Steven Bethard.)

(Contributed by Michael R Bax.)

  when using X11 and the Fink distribution.  Python Bug 1263656.
Modified Files:
   Tag: release24-maint
 	NEWS.txt ScriptBinding.py

(Contributed by Michael R Bax.)

SF patch #1057588; other changes make the rest of the patch out of date
or otherwise unnecessary
(backported from trunk revision 1.188)

(closes SF bug #736659, patch #901369; backport of Lib/markupbase.py 1.11)

(Contributed by Michael R Bax.)

sequences ==> iterables

Minor clarification.

Fix over-aggressive PyErr_Clear().  The same code fragment appears in
various guises in list.extend(), map(), filter(), zip(), and internally
in PySequence_Tuple().