test_setparameters() to use it -- don't assume AFMT_S16_NE is always
defined!

wait() should not call waitpid() again.

Should be backported to 2.2.4.

build (assert(gc->gc.gc_refs != 0) in visit_decref()).

Because OSSAudioError is a global, we must compensate (twice!) for
PyModule_AddObject()'s "helpful" decref of the object it adds.

Not implemented and not needed.

M PyShell.py
M run.py

prefixes, any file that is skipped during a per-user install that matches
this set is *not* an error; Systemwide-only is a boolean that says the
package cannot be installer per-user.

shortdescription() so the code to split off the first line of the
description isn't all over the place.

gives a small speedup).

Modified Files:
 	NEWS.txt README.txt TODO.txt

abnormal exit situations cleanly, especially stuck user threads.  Future
plan is to intercept the user's atexit functions and run them under
IDLE's control.

Excecution environment and residual shell has cwd set to the directory of
the module being run.

M ScriptBinding.py

for the library path.

explanation of int in terms of string.atoi. Explain sum in terms of
reduce.

The fast_function() inlining optimization only
applies when there are zero keyword arguments.

reported by Kurt B. Kaiser.

Modified Files:
 	CREDITS.txt INSTALL.txt LICENSE.txt aboutDialog.py setup.py

- Added support for multi-line descriptions. Doesn't look nice
yet in Package Manager.

8 bits is 1 byte, and that isn't about to change any time soon.  (I hope!)

  * it no longer takes ssize, which served no purpose apart from
    scolding you if you got it wrong
  * changed the order of the three remaining required arguments
    to (format, channels, rate) to match the order in which they
    must be set
  * replaced the optional argument 'emulate' with 'strict': if strict
    true, and the audio device does not accept the requested sampling
    parameters, raise OSSAudioError
  * return a tuple (format, channels, rate) reflecting the sampling
    parameters that were actually set

Change the canonical name of ossaudiodev.error to
ossaudiodev.OSSAudioError (keep an alias for backwards compatibility).

Remove 'audio_types' list and 'n_audio_types' (no longer needed now that
setparameters() no longer has an 'ssize' argument to police).

in some locales.  This code simplifies the boundary algorithm to use
randint() which is what we wanted anyway.

Bump package version to 2.5.3.

Backport candidate for Python 2.2.3

can happen if __init__ doesn't complete.  Fix it by adding a
try/except to __del__.

or emptying __dict__, just as we do for classic classes.

Remove references to string based exceptions in the doc.

code (which has also been recently overhauled, so that it can be
documented without embarassment).

'error' has been renamed to 'OSSAudioError'.

Minor wordsmithing.