with earlier versions.

1) A non-critical off-by-one error in pythonw

2) A problem in the configure script that caused
   builds with '--enable-framework --enable-universalsdk=/'
   to fail on OSX 10.6.

Switch regrtest to use StringIO instead of cStringIO for test_multiprocessing on Windows. Issue 8333.

unittest.result.TestResult does not create its buffers until they're used. It uses StringIO not cStringIO. Issue 8333.

also the case in FreeBSD's port of libffi).

Reviewed by: dickinsm

in the hope of getting more information about the test_ctypes failures
on Sparc (see issue #8314).

command line option
patch from Brian Curtin

with a number of additional minor edits and typo corrections.

left-shifting an integer by more than 2**31 on a 64-bit machine.  Also
convert shift counts to a Py_ssize_t instead of a C long.

Spotted by the PyPy developers.

Original commit is:

branch:      trunk
user:        guido
date:        Mon Aug 19 21:32:04 1996 +0200
files:       Python/getargs.c
description:
[svn r6499] Support for keyword arguments (PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords) donated by
Geoff Philbrick <philbric@delphi.hks.com> (slightly changed by me).

Also a little change to make the file acceptable to K&R C compilers
(HPUX, SunOS 4.x).