Peter Astrand, with markup by Fredrik Lundh and Raymond Hettinger.

is not a local variable.  Add a test case.

Python 2.3.x candidate.

was a mistake of mine in updating patch #975056 (I think).

this test failed under the combination of passing -O to a debug-build
Python.  Now all 4 of those pass ({debug, release} x {-O, no -O}).

rangeobject.c has an #ifdef that is reached only when LONG_MAX != INT_MAX

Easy doc corrections from Dan Gass.
Also repaired the LaTeX for optional keyword arguments throughout, which
was (incorrectly) nested instead of flat.

73: Restore support for Python 2.1.
74: Factor the previous change differently
79: Conditionalize usage of PyTuple_Pack.

want to use pywin32 instead of _subprocess, you have to edit the file.

Python's own setup.py that did the same thing (and tested on Solaris,
where LDSHARED is needed...)

detection to configure &c.

a few remaining calls to signal() were converted to PyOS_setsig().

non-ascii characters.

This support was only a first cut, and doesn't deserve to be in
a released version (where we have to support it in an ongoing
manner)

it's rather expensive to create new processes.

"Khalid A. B." on python-dev)

(should probably remove all traces of _xmlrpclib, but I'll leave that
for another day.)