and besides Toby Dickenson sent me a more functional
(if lower level) wrapper around PlaySound.

"""Sjoerd's version stores unbound methods.  that's not good enough ;-)
Here's an alternative implementation of fixdict."""

Use consistent parameter naming with the os documentation (paths
always named "path" or "path1", "path2"...).

nor a separate paragraph.

Clarified (hopefully :-) the documentation of elements and attributes
variables.

Fix leaking of instances by removing the elements variable that we
created on closing the parser.  The elements variable is now created
in the reset() method, so that the sequence close(); reset();
... works.
Also, add the name of the entity reference that wasn't found to the
error message.

a process exit status as a parameter.

put the preferences file in a folder called "Python" inside the prefs folder, just like the IDE does -- jvr

Formalize the xstat() documentation.

was appended to a list.  Lists are reference count neutral, so the
string must be DECREF'd.  Also added some checks for the return value
of PyList_Append().

Note: there are still some memory problems reported by Purify (I get
two Array Bounds Reads still and an Unitialized Memory Read).  Also,
in scanning the code, there appears to be some potential problems
where return values aren't checked.  To much to attack now though.

this doesn't exist everywhere, so go back to using #ifdef NeXT.

from Python 1.5.1:

If after __init__ finishes no new elements variable was created, this
patch will search the instance's namespace for all attributes whose
name start with start_ or end_ and put their value in a new elements
instance variable.

-- jvr