already present in the "String literals" section, including comments on
the "u" prefix and the additional escape sequences used for Unicode.

This relates to SF bug #442526.

Fix showstopper SF bug #442983: use of site.addsitedir() was broken
because it references the global dirs_in_sys_path which is deleted.
The fix avoids deleting that global.

(My email through python.org or digicool.com is non-functional at the
moment; use gvanrossum@home.com to reach me.)

This closes SF bug #443059.

parts Inno has no good answer for (read the comments at the top of the
script).

Modified by Fred Drake.
This closes SF patch #440827.

This closes SF patch #440826.

Part of SF patch #434992.

This is part of SF patch #424992.

This is part of SF patch #434992.

This is part of SF patch #434992.

This is part of SF patch #434992.

This closes SF patch #440153.

the directory separator, as required by the format specification.

This closes SF bug #440693.

expected-output file.

This is a Windows-specific glitch that's really due to that, e.g.,
ntpath.join("c:", "/abc") returned "/abc" instead of "c:/abc".  Made
join smarter.
Bugfix candidate.

This closes SF bug #440351.  It should not be moved to Python 2.1.1.

parsed correctly.  Now they are.

doesn't work -- it actually prevents the extensions from being built
properly.  So I'm changing the "sharedmods" target to what I presume
it was before:
	PYTHONPATH= ./$(PYTHON) $(srcdir)/setup.py build

Add new low-level API for interpreter introspection
Bump version number.

SF patch #436376.

back-out 1.215 of configure.in and 1.34 of Makefile.pre.in
Check for -Kpthread compiler support, and use this as the sole option
for MT if available.

bug #442627.

Reorganize so the initialization sequences does not bite us in the foot.
(There is no good reason to discard classes that clients may want to
subclass.)