(closes SF bug #817742)

(closes SF bug #881707)

1.12
Added more Windows version names (thanks to Thomas Heller).
Fixed bug in platform() cache (thanks to Brett Cannon).

1.10,1.11
Fixed a caching bug in platform.platform() where the argument of 'terse' was
not taken into consideration when caching value.

- describe __getnewargs__() (with index entry)
(closes SF bug #873246)

are enough subtleties to pickling that we don't want misunderstanding
to spread because we don't provide all the information twice.  The
reference to the pickle module for information will have to suffice;
at least only one portion of the docs will be out of date.  ;-(

constants
(closes SF bug #837929)

General cleanup of mixer docs, especially clarifying which exceptions
  are thrown when.
Trim \platform{}, add \versionadded{}.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-September/037922.html

for background.  It appears I forgot to ever submit a bug report or patch.

Fixes http://bugs.debian.org/229885

which will create a windows installer containing only the Python
debugging binaries.

They will be installed alongside an existing Python installation, the
location is read from the registry.

This allows easy building and debugging of own compiled extensions.

a string or unicode object in sre.compile() when a different type
pattern with the same value exists.

a string or unicode object in sre.compile() when a different type
pattern with the same value exists.

Fix typo.

Add instructions how to build tix - will probably be included in Python 2.3.4.

When loading the Python dll to run the postinstall script, try to load
it from the install directory (as reported by the registry) in case it
is not found on the default Loadlibrary search path.

Fixes SF 935091: bdist_winist post-install script fails on non-admin Python

Will port to the trunk later.

it from the install directory (as reported by the registry) in case it
is not found on the default Loadlibrary search path.

Fixes SF 935091: bdist_winist post-install script fails on non-admin Python

Will port to the trunk later.

Bug #934635: Fixed a bug where the configure script couldn't detect
getaddrinfo() properly if the KAME stack had SCTP support.
(Submitted by SUZUKI Shinsuke)

Fixes for AF_UNIX support on OS/2:
- return the full size of the sockaddr_un structure, without which
  bind() fails with EINVAL;
- set test_socketserver to use a socket name that meets the form
  required by the underlying implementation;
- don't bother exercising the forking AF_UNIX tests on EMX - its
  fork() can't handle the stress.

OS/2's TCP/IP stack supports AF_UNIX sockets, with the limitation that
the socket name must start with /socket32/.  Unlike Unix systems, this
file never exists in the file system.

OS/2 has support for spawnvp() and spawnvpe() in the C libraries supplied
with major C compilers (VACPP, EMX+gcc and [Open]Watcom).

Also tidy up the export of spawn*() symbols in the os module to match what
is found/implemented.

If a file is opened with an explicit buffer size >= 1, repeated
close() calls would attempt to free() the buffer already free()ed on
the first close().     [bug introduced with patch #788249]

Making sure that the buffer is free()ed in file object deallocation is
a belt-n-braces bit of insurance against a memory leak.