Try to make command line error messages from runpy easier to understand (and suppress traceback cruft from the implicitly invoked runpy machinery)

Move 2.5 news to Misc/HISTORY.

Replace 'raise Error, stuff' with 'raise Error(stuff)'.

top-level Python configure script.
configure, fficonfig.h.in: regenerated.

callable() from copy_reg.py, so the interpreter now starts up
without warnings when '-3' is given.  More work like this needs to
be done in the rest of the stdlib.

This change doesn't make any difference to CPython, but is a necessary fix for Jython.

Now that PyOS_ascii_formatd supports the 'n' format, simplify the float formatting code to just call it.

Trim leading zeros from a floating point exponent, per C99.  See issue 1600.  As far as I know, this only affects Windows.  Add float type 'n' to PyOS_ascii_formatd (see PEP 3101 for 'n' description).

Perform correct handling of stack overflow for windows: Catch the correct exception code and reset the overflow condition when handled.

Thanks Anthony Lenton.

inspect.py.  Thanks Javi Mansilla for patch review and
corrections.

Only PCBuild (vs9) was really tested.
Changes for older compilers were done manually.

Highlights:
 - Adding PyObject_Format.
 - Adding string.Format class.
 - Adding __format__ for str, unicode, int, long, float, datetime.
 - Adding builtin format.
 - Adding ''.format and u''.format.
 - str/unicode fixups for formatters.

The files in Objects/stringlib that implement PEP 3101 (stringdefs.h,
unicodedefs.h, formatter.h, string_format.h) are identical in trunk
and py3k.  Any changes from here on should be made to trunk, and
changes will propogate to py3k).

a subclass of it. Thanks John Lenton.

issues regarding user/group and permissions. Fixes 1050828.

Thanks to Christopher White from GHOP.

is still present in the containing structure.

function can be called recursively.
This was discussed in issue1020188.

In python codebase, all occurrences of Py_[X]DECREF(xxx->yyy) are suspect,
except when they appear in tp_new or tp_dealloc functions, or when
the member cannot be of a user-defined class.
Note that tp_init is not safe.

I do have a (crashing) example for every changed line.
Is it worth adding them to the test suite?

Example:

class SpecialStr(str):
    def __del__(self):
        s.close()

import cStringIO
s = cStringIO.StringIO(SpecialStr("text"))
s.close() # Segfault

Skip this test created by r60830.

They still remain fragile.

For example, a call to assertEqual currently does not make any allocation
(which surprised me at first).
But this can change when gc.collect also deletes the numerous "zombie frames"
attached to each function.

in the config dialog would cause non-Python files to be colored as if they
were Python source; improve use of ColorDelagator.  Patch 1334. Tal Einat.