what these do given a 0 size argument.  This is so that when pymalloc
is enabled, we don't need to wrap pymalloc calls in goofy little
routines special-casing 0.  Note that it's virtually impossible to meet
the doc's promise that malloc(0) will never return NULL; this makes a
best effort, but not an insane effort.  The code does promise that
realloc(not-NULL, 0) will never return NULL (malloc(0) is much harder).

_PyMalloc_Realloc:  Changed to take over all requests for 0 bytes, and
rearranged to be a little quicker in expected cases.

All over the place:  when resorting to the platform allocator, call
free/malloc/realloc directly, without indirecting thru macros.  This
should avoid needing a nightmarish pile of #ifdef-ery if PYMALLOC_DEBUG
is changed so that pymalloc takes over all Py(Mem, Object} memory
operations (which would add useful debugging info to PyMem_xyz
allocations too).

This closes SF bug #539081.

PEP 285.  Everything described in the PEP is here, and there is even
some documentation.  I had to fix 12 unit tests; all but one of these
were printing Boolean outcomes that changed from 0/1 to False/True.
(The exception is test_unicode.py, which did a type(x) == type(y)
style comparison.  I could've fixed that with a single line using
issubtype(x, type(y)), but instead chose to be explicit about those
places where a bool is expected.

Still to do: perhaps more documentation; change standard library
modules to return False/True from predicates.

code (if it isn't open already).

PythonIDE still opens the resource file "manually" because it also uses
presence of the CURS resource to determine whether it needs to adjust
sys.path.

PyArg_ParseTuple() as part of the format string.

 457466: popenx() argument mangling hangs python
 226766: popen('python -c"...."') tends to hang

Fixes argument quoting in w9xpopen.exe for Windows 9x.  w9xpopen.exe
also never attempts to display a MessageBox when not executed
interactively.

Added test_popen() test.  This test currently just executes
"python -c ..." as a child process, and checks that the expected
arguments were all recieved correctly by the child process.  This
test succeeds for me on Win9x, win2k and Linux, and I hope it does
for other popen supported platforms too :)

Please review.

  PyArg_Parse( "s" )  -> PyString_AsString
  PyArg_Parse( "t#" ) -> PyString_AsStringAndSize

broken w/ classmethods.

Bugfix candidate.

Minor cleanups.

that it works.

Bugfix candidate (this and the previous checkin, obviously).

Partly responds to SF bug #505152.

on how a system is configured.
This closes SF bug #497160 (which has the patch) and #460613.

Bugfix candidate.

Clarify that os.waitpid() on Windows takes a process handle, not a process ID.
This closes SF bug #537582.

This closes SF bug #537511.

types for each code, and give the actual C types.

Clarified the support for slice operations and note when some TypeError
exceptions are raised.

This closes SF bugs 518767 and 536469.

the manual refer to it.

XXX Not sure that it belongs in this section, or that the concept is
particularly important for writing documentation.  Perhaps references
to the frame should be removed entirely.

free variable and is subject to those rules.

function is enforced.

    Names bound by import statements may not occur in global
    statements in the same scope.

Why not?

Note that deleteing an unbound local will raise a NameError.

How do I create a cross reference to section 4.1?

Replace section 4.1 with section A.3.

The new section 4.1 is titled "Naming and binding."  It includes the
text of section A.3 augmented with some of the detailed text from the
old section 4.1.

The \dfn, \index stuff is probably wrong, but I tried.

Also update other parts of appendix A to mention that nested scopes
and generators are standard features.