cmpcache sections.

documentation.

documentation sections.

functionality of cmp.py and cmpcache.py, which are hereby declared
obsolescent.

class instance, include the class attributes in the list of possible
expansions.

request handling into separate parse_request() and handle_request()
methods.

not as descriptive as what Barry suggests, but this also catches the
(in my opinion important) case where some other C code besides apply()
constructs a kwdict that doesn't have the right format.  All the other
possibilities of getting it wrong (non-dict, wrong keywords etc) are
already caught so this makes sense to check here.

Now supports the full range of intended formats (tar, ztar, gztar, zip).
"-f" no longer a short option for "--formats" -- conflicts with new
  global option "--force"!

on the manifest file syntax.

keep whatever gethostname() returns.  After a suggestion by Doug Wyatt.

information accessible to Python.

When run as a script, just dumps the information back out in the data
format, with functions in sorted order and a blank line between
different functions.

Still need to apply the information somehow.

Fixed up a few of his ??? comments.

more than one window argument.

(XXX perhaps a bit too verbose; in particular it is sensitive to
all the doc strings.)

module, which is tested by test_binhex.py.

reformatted.)

- Illegal padding is now ignored.  (Recommendation by GvR.)

- Padding no longer removes characters from data string (resulting in
lost data/strings with negative lengths).

- Illegal characters outside the ASCII range are now ignored, instead
of possibly being remapped to a valid character.

Renamed it and adapted a comment and an error message.

before it reveals the needed definitions in sys/statvfs.h.

_PyString_Resize() with a negative size.

At import time, getpass will be bound to the appropriate
platform-specific function.  If the platform's echo-disabler is not
available, default_getpass, which prints the warning, will be used

didn't properly handle the hex numbers returned.

same permissions as the old file, plugging a security hole.
(Not using exactly the suggested bugfix.)

<paul@prescod.net>.

supported.  Pointed out by Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>.

If os.fork() doesn't exist, raise SystemError with an explanation at
the top of the module.  Added a note to the module docstring.

messages for specific changes.

docstring info for readfp().

long_pow().