out by Curtis Jensen on c.l.py and forwarded by Fredrik Lundh.

newlines at the start or end.  Fiddle test_popen2 and popen2._test() to
tolerate this.  Also change all "assert"s in these tests to raise
explicit exceptions, so that python -O doesn't render them useless.
Also, in case of error, make the msg display the reprs of what we
wrote and what we read, so we can tell exactly why it's failing.

URLs, add various useful URLs.  Update address and email.  Drop PSA
and copyright.  Add license info.

Fix import support to work with import as variant of Python 2.0.  The
grammar for import changed, requiring changes in transformer and code
generator, even to handle compilation of imports with as.

In the Welcome dialog:
    Reworded reference to non-existent "Exit Setup" button.
    Removed useless "Back" button.
    Changed "push" to "click".

definitely change for the 2.0 final release.

very late in the process when running on Windows 2000 without admim
privs.  Rearranged so that the admin check is done at the start
instead.  Added words to the end of the blurb to make it very clear
how to abort the install (wasn't obvious to me that "Cancel" was
the right thing to click).

not ever see!

when PyDict_SetItemString() fails.

privileges".  Untested except on Win98SE (where Wise writes to HKLM).

Connected to patch 100895

Py_FatalError() from module initialization functions.  The importing
mechanism already checks for PyErr_Occurred() after module importation
and it Does The Right Thing.

Unfortunately, the following either were not compiled or tested by the
regression suite, due to issues with my development platform:

	almodule.c
	cdmodule.c
	mpzmodule.c
	puremodule.c
	timingmodule.c

by Martin v. Loewis, proofed by Barry Warsaw for coding standards,
typos, and to make command line options compatible with GNU msgfmt
where they overlap.

Closes patch #101295.

Removed installation of Lib/plat-win/*.py, because it no longer exists!

Python test suite.  Specifically,

- import time instead of strop in test_b1

- test for ClassType of exceptions using isinstance instead of
  equality in test_exceptions

- remove __builtins__ from dir() output in test_pkg

test_pkg output needs to be regenerated.

implementation.  You don't want to know.  I've asked Guido to give this
a critical review (we agreed on the approach, but the implementation
proved more ... interesting ... than anticipated).  This will almost
certainly be the highlight of Mark Hammond's day <wink>.

ntransfercmd(), and retrbinary() commands.  This closes SF patch
#101187.

#101187, which some modifications.  Specifically,

ntransfercmd(), transfercmd(), and retrbinary() all grow an optional
`rest' argument, which if not None, is used as the argument to an FTP
REST comman dbefore the socket is returned.  Differences from the SF
patch:

- always compare against None with `is' or `is not' instead of == or !=

- no parens around conditional

- RFC 959 defines the argument to REST is a string containing any
  ASCII characters in the range [33..126].  Therefore, we use the %s
  format character instead of %f or %d as suggested in the patch's
  comments.  Note that we do /not/ sanity checkthe contents of the
  rest argument (but we'll document this in the library reference
  manual).

struct _inittab.

This closes SourceForge bug #111499.

we don't need to run gc frequently

PyErr_Format computes size of buffer needed rather than relying on
static buffer.

(leaving the rest of the modules for Barry)

out again after we complete switching to C++ <wink>.  Thanks to Greg Stein
for hitting me.

unbuffered (by setting the class variable rbufsize to 0), because we
(may) need to pass the file descriptor to the subprocess running the
CGI script positioned after the headers.

and wfile class variables (that the instance can also override).
Change the default for rfile to buffered, because that seems to make a
big difference in performance on some platforms.

An anti-patch is needed to revert the effect in CGIHTTPServer.py which
I'll check in momentarily.

add sanity check to gc: if an exception occurs during GC, call
PyErr_WriteUnraisable and then call Py_FatalEror.