platforms.

This is part the response to SF patch #429611.

have it, especially on non-Unix platforms.  (MikTeX in particular does not
have it.)

This is part of the response to SF patch #429611.

Use construction-syntax for an exception to make the argument easier
to read.

   though 'licence' is still supported for backward-compatibility
   (Should I add a warning to get_licence(), or not bother?)

Also fixes an UnboundLocalError noticed by PyChecker

it possible to detect recursive calls early (as opposed to when the
stack overflows :-).

section on functions which return stack frames.

This closes SF bug #449258.

type is ready, and READYING to indicate that it is busy with the type.

A recursive call is a fatal error.

This closes SF patch #428320.

Added documentation for the new floordiv() and truediv() functions.
This is part of SF bug #449093.

Re-organized the listing of functions to get better logical grouping.

  available in java, so only use the advanced flush options if they
  are defined in the zlib module.

bug #449000, "re.sub(r'\n', ...) broke".  This was Fredrik's
suggestion -- he's on vacation and said he wouldn't be able to work on
this until next week.

of PyList_Append.

Wrap some long lines.
Remove unnecessary tuple unpack.

it has no such parameter.

This closes SF bug #449761.

Fixes the problem reported in bug #438786.

Removed all instances of Py_UCS2 from the codebase, and so also (I hope)
the last remaining reliance on the platform having an integral type
with exactly 16 bits.
PyUnicode_DecodeUTF16() and PyUnicode_EncodeUTF16() now read and write
one byte at a time.

"import MacOS", and there *is* a need for "import operator".

This closes SF patch #428320.

Add wrappers to expose "floor" and "true" division.
This closes SF feature request #449093.

uninstantiable.  All is well now.

inherited unless *both*: (a) the base type is 'object', and (b) the
subtype is not a "heap" type.

bit.  For one, this class:

    class C(object):
        def __new__(myclass, ...): ...

would have no way to call the __new__ method of its base class, and
the workaround (to create an intermediate base class whose __new__ you
can call) is ugly.

So, I've come up with a better solution that restores object.__new__,
but still solves the original problem, which is that built-in and
extension types shouldn't inherit object.__new__.  The solution is
simple: only "heap types" inherit tp_new.  Simpler, less code,
perfect!

repr(type(x)).