support for posix semaphores.

Indicate to the user when this is an upgrade installation.
Make CHM file non-advertised.

Add default value for "whence" argument.

Reset internal buffers when seek() is called. This fixes SF bug #1156259.

the file system encoding.

functions, etc., had comments after the colon, and some other cases.
This patch take a simpler approach that doesn't rely on looking for a
':'. Test cases are not backported, as test_inspect.py has been
rewritten using unittest on the trunk.

Thanks Simon Percivall!

socket.gethostname() as a valid return value.

Also clarified the docs as they were a little hazy on the subject matter.

MSVCCompiler.initialize():  set self.initialized to True, as suggested
by AMK.  Else we keep growing the PATH endlessly, with each new C
extension built, until putenv() complains.

This doesn't appear to be an issue on the HEAD (MSVCCompiler initializes
itself via __init__() on the HEAD).

Also added a "2.4.1c2" section to NEWS.  Not meant to imply that Anthony
will do a 2.4.1c2 release, just needed to a place to put the news about the
MSVCCompiler bugfix.

- add support for additional markup: \leq, \textbar, \textit
- add a comment about the non-support for the Euro character

(ported from trunk revision 1.112)

backport v1.216: add support for another DB library naming convention \n(FreeBSD ports) - patch #1146231

to oss_audio_device objects.

'closed', 'name', and 'mode' (as recommended by
http://python.org/doc/current/lib/bltin-file-objects.html).

(this was breaking test_warnings).

eg. "2004-03-04" is not broken across lines.

in pyexpat.GetInputContext.

to build. Will backport to 2.4

symbolic links on Windows. Fixes #1100429.