automatically all the time.

Added Help module.
Checked in PythonCore.prj.hqx (which had somehow slipped through until
now)

Implemented balloon help for options dialog.

to 4.

version to 4.
Added balloon-help item to options dialog.

arbitrary nested parens in a %(...)X style format.
#Also folded two lines and added more detail to the error message for
#unsupported format character.

imported when the user says "from package import *".

resource files with various inheritence rules, parsers, etc.

pythonprefs uses this to create a single uniform interface to all
relevant python preferences.

resulted in full recompilation every time.

"optimize" has replaced "don't print".

preference handling code is in modules pythonprefs and preferences.
This should finally make it easier for someone (Just?) to write a
decent interface to preference setting, and it'll allow setting
initial sys.path and such from ConfigurePython.

Added a couple of splash screens to show what we're doing

metaclasses, and acks.

a shared class variable -- but each instance will attempt to clean it
up entirely ob cleanup).

instance, use inst.__dict__.update(value) instead of a for loop with
setattr() over the value.keys().  This is more consistent (the
pickling doesn't use getattr() either but pickles inst.__dict__) and
avoids problems with instances that have a __setattr__ hook.

But it *is* a semantic change (because the setattr hook is no longer
used).  So beware!

lib-tk and lib-stdwin.  (BTW this was also done in the previous
checkin of (toplevel)/Makefile.in, though not noted in the checkin
message.)

(This is necessary because when imported as test.test_rgbimg, the test
directory is not on sys.path.)

(This is necessary because when imported as test.test_rgbimg, the test
directory is not on sys.path.)

makesetup script.  (Sorry Sjoerd -- I know you proposed this a while
ago and I didn't think it would work then.  I looked again and it
does work.)

it will run as package test, e.g. this will run the test suite:

    import test.regrtest
    test.regrtest.main()