half was removed in revision 1.25

From SF patch #852334.

x in string.whitespace => x.isspace()
type(x) in types.StringTypes => isinstance(x, basestring)
isinstance(x, types.StringTypes) => isinstance(x, basestring)
type(x) is types.StringType => isinstance(x, str)
type(x) == types.StringType => isinstance(x, str)
string.split(x, ...) => x.split(...)
string.join(x, y) => y.join(x)
string.zfill(x, ...) => x.zfill(...)
string.count(x, ...) => x.count(...)
hasattr(types, "UnicodeType") => try: unicode except NameError:
type(x) != types.TupleTuple => not isinstance(x, tuple)
isinstance(x, types.TupleType) => isinstance(x, tuple)
type(x) is types.IntType => isinstance(x, int)

Do not mention the string module in the rlcompleter docstring.

This partially applies SF patch http://www.python.org/sf/562373
(with basestring instead of string). (It excludes the changes to
unittest.py and does not change the os.stat stuff.)

Patch 560023 adding docstrings.  2.2 Candidate (after verifying modules were not updated after 2.2).

Add a comment elsewhere making clear an assumption in the code.

*this* set of patches is Ka-Ping's final sweep:

The attached patches update the standard library so that all modules
have docstrings beginning with one-line summaries.

A new docstring was added to formatter.  The docstring for os.py
was updated to mention nt, os2, ce in addition to posix, dos, mac.

	the newsgroup by Raymond Tong Leng Ng <rntl@yahoo.com>.

	needs to be a standard part of the interface, so we'll have it in
	for the next release.

	documentation.

'writer' of the NullFormatter to the writter passed in, or to a
NullWriter if none (or None) is passed in.

date: 1996/08/14 17:27:21;  author: fdrake;  state: Exp;  lines: +11 -9
(formatter.py):  Establish a consistent space-handling policy, so that all
        spaces are handled by the outermost context in which they might be
        considered.  (I.e., softspaces at element boundaries migrate
        outwards.)

        For instance: "<A> <IMG> </A>" becomes " <A><IMG></A> ".

        This avoids some of those nasty underlined spaces around images.  It
        does not affect spaces *between* images within an anchor.

date: 1996/08/01 17:02:09;  author: fdrake;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -2
(formatter.py):  Added required parameter to the NullFormatter class; this
        was omitted by accident.

        Made AbstractFormatter.add_literal_data() handle preceeding softspace
        correctly instead of expecting the caller to do it.

date: 1996/07/23 22:18:56;  author: fdrake;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
(formatter.py):  Correct assert_line_data() to update all internal conditions;
        This now handles headers with only image content immediately followed
        by anything.