forever on incomplete input. That caused tarfile.open() to hang when used
with mode 'r' or 'r:bz2' and a fileobj argument that contained no data or
partial bzip2 compressed data.

integer types T, not just those for which "unsigned T" is legal.

Backport of r70459.

* Re-order methods so that those touching the underlying data
  structure come first and the derived methods come last.

* Add optional argument to popitem() -- modeled
  after Anthon van der Neut's C version.
* Fix method markup in docs.

for O(1) deletions.  Big-Oh performance now the same as regular
dictionaries.  Uses a doubly-linked list instead of a list/seq
to track insertion order.

sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2, PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts
each character outside the BMP to the appropriate surrogate pair.

Thanks Victor Stinner for the patch.

(backport of r70452 from py3k to trunk)

If you use http://svn.python.org/projects/external/openssl-0.9.8g, Perl is not needed.
This scheme was ported from PCBuild.

added for 'n' formats with non-repeating thousands-separator.

to Decimal __format__ method.

alignment.

This is cleaner and avoids lockups in obscure cases where a Queue
is instantiated while the import lock is already held by another thread.

OKed by Tim Peters.

the recommendation to send suggestions to the author can be followed.

Fix a small nit in the error message if bool() falls back on __len__ and it returns the wrong type: it would tell the user that __nonzero__ should return bool or int.