light of three different situations: (1) running from build; (2)
running from installed; (3) running without being able to find an
installation (e.g. as a COM object).  The system paths in the
repository are only used for (3); the path deduced from the
installation location are used otherwise.  PYTHONHOME overrides in all
cases.

Read the comments for more details.

name is much longer, which fouls up dis's formatting slightly; this is
a "fix" for that.

script pointed to by PYTHONPATH will be executed on startup.  That
should say PYTHONSTARTUP.

Martinez Foffani <hfoffani@sofrecom.com.ar>.

device info.  I don't know why these occur, but they seem to be
shortlived and harmless.

PyErr_Occurred(), just set x=NULL and break.  Oh, and make Jeremy stop
nagging me about the "special" indentation for this block.

the return value of PySequence_Length().  If an exception occurred,
the returned length will be -1.  Make sure this doesn't get obscurred,
and that the bogus length isn't used.

If you do a "cvs update" in the Lib directory, it will pop up there.

use global __debug__ flag to determine if compiled files will be ".pyc"
or ".pyo".  Tweaked compilation output messages too.

might have been copied, regardless of the 'update' flag.

Made handling OSError in 'mkpath()' more standard.

make 'mkdir()' return list of directories created.

for the 'bdist_dumb' command.  Adapted, with tweakage, from the 'sdist'
command.

in preparation for the 'bdist_dumb' command; these methods remain as
trivial wrappers around the versions in distutils.util.

'has_ext_modules()', 'has_c_libraries()', 'has_modules()', and 'is_pure()'.

  is responsible for installing all Python modules (pure and extensions).
Added 'get_outputs()' in preparation for the 'bdist' command, and
  '_mutate_outputs()' to support 'get_outputs()'.

  in a class attribute 'sub_commands', rather than hard-coded in 'run()'.
  This should make it easier to subclass 'install', and also makes it
  easier to keep 'run()' and the new 'get_outputs()' consistent.
Added 'get_outputs()' in preparation for the 'bdist' command.

methods of Distribution instead of grovelling directly in self.distribution.

Changed signature of 'build_extensions()': no longer takes the extension
  list, but uses 'self.extensions' (just like 'get_outputs()' has to)
Moved call to 'check_extensions_list()' from 'run()' to 'build_extensions()',
  again for consistency with 'get_outputs()'.

A host of improvements in preparation for the 'bdist' command:
  - added 'get_outputs()' method (all the other improvements were to support
    this addition)
  - made 'find_package_modules()' and 'find_modules()' return similar
    values (list of (package, module, module_filename) tuples)
  - factored 'find_all_modules()' out of 'get_source_files()' (needed
    by 'get_outputs()')
  - factored 'get_module_outfile()' out of 'build_module()' (also needed
    by 'get_outputs()')
  - various little tweaks, improvements, comment/doc updates

Also, _tkinter is linked with Tcl 8.3.

running out of the build directory.  This means that it will no longer
try to use an older version of the library when an older version has
been installed.

me half an hour to find why it was still linking with python15.dll!)

This was originally submitted by Martin von Loewis as part of his
Unicode patch; all I did was add special cases for Python int and
float objects and rearrange the object type tests somewhat to speed up
the common cases (string, int, float, tuple, unicode, object).

executive summary:
Instead of typing 'apply(f, args, kwargs)' you can type 'f(*arg, **kwargs)'.
Some file-by-file details follow.

Grammar/Grammar:
    simplify varargslist, replacing '*' '*' with '**'
    add * & ** options to arglist

Include/opcode.h & Lib/dis.py:
    define three new opcodes
        CALL_FUNCTION_VAR
        CALL_FUNCTION_KW
        CALL_FUNCTION_VAR_KW

Python/ceval.c:
    extend TypeError "keyword parameter redefined" message to include
        the name of the offending keyword
    reindent CALL_FUNCTION using four spaces
    add handling of sequences and dictionaries using extend calls
    fix function import_from to use PyErr_Format

This fixes a bunch of socket.connect(host, post) calls.  Note that I
haven't tested all modules -- I don't have enough servers here...

The new filecmp module has an optional argument called use_statcache
which is documented as a true/false value, but used as an tuple index.

This patches replaces the tuple stuff with a good old if- statement,
and also removes a few other tuple pack/unpack constructs (if not
else, this saves a few bytes in the PYC file, and a few microseconds
when using the module ;-).

Updated NetPresenz URL. Still needs update in the light of the new :Mac:Tools:CGI: stuff. Later. (jvr)