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

- this file dropped onto the interpreter
- applet built by BuildApplet (contains only __main__)
- applet built by BuildIDE (contains all IDE modules)

Fixed two typo's (Plugins -> PlugIns) and added some explicit path munging to allow the script to also work from the Scripts folder. Somehow either of these fixes solved a problem where it suddenly refused to make a PythonCore alias in the Extensions folder. -- jvr

C struct declarations with #ifndef rez

In the docstring of ConfigParser.py  (Python 1.5.2b1):
    read(*filenames) -- read and parse the list of named configuration files

should be:
    read(filenames) -- read and parse the list of named configuration files

The method accepts a list, not a bunch of positional arguments.
Which is good, the list is much more convenient.

second time!

the info tarball.

applied to all filenames before they are compared, looked up in the
breaks dictionary, etc.  The default implementation does nothing --
it's implented as fast as possible via str().  A useful implementation
would make everything a absolute, e.g. return os.path.normcase(
os.path.abspath(filename)).

Purify) being caused by a bug in the readline library.  Nothing we can
do about it.

Cause: readline_initialize_everything() throws away the return value
from rl_read_init_file(), but that happens to be the last reference to
a dynamically allocated char*.

    decompressor object.  This required adding a flag to the struct which is
    true if initialisation was completed; on object destruction, deflateEnd()
    is only called if the flag is true.