classes when they are actually created.

The exact behaviour of omitted and negative indices for the Pointer type may
need a closer look (especially as it's subtly different from simple slices)
but there's time yet before 2.6, and not enough before 3.0a1 :-)

* Don't raise TestSkipped within a test function.

1) Improve the documentation of the SSL module, with a fuller
   explanation of certificate usage, another reference, proper
   formatting of this and that.

2) Fix Windows bug in ssl.py, and general bug in sslsocket.close().
   Remove some unused code from ssl.py.  Allow accept() to be called on
   sslsocket sockets.

3) Use try-except-else in import of ssl in socket.py.  Deprecate use of
   socket.ssl().

4) Remove use of socket.ssl() in every library module, except for
   test_socket_ssl.py and test_ssl.py.

exceptions raised during FailingServerTestCase tests.
[GSoC - Alan McIntyre]

HTMLCalender.formatyearpage() (there's no themonth parameter).

This fixes issue1046.

 - Specialcase extended slices that amount to a shallow copy the same way as
   is done for simple slices, in the tuple, string and unicode case.

 - Specialcase step-1 extended slices to optimize the common case for all
   involved types.

 - For lists, allow extended slice assignment of differing lengths as long
   as the step is 1. (Previously, 'l[:2:1] = []' failed even though
   'l[:2] = []' and 'l[:2:None] = []' do not.)

 - Implement extended slicing for buffer, array, structseq, mmap and
   UserString.UserString.

 - Implement slice-object support (but not non-step-1 slice assignment) for
   UserString.MutableString.

 - Add tests for all new functionality.

the fileobj argument has no usable name attribute (e.g. StringIO).

(will backport to 2.5)

it from __builtin__).

> returning NULL, and other pieces of the code call PySSL_SetError,
> which creates the error string.  I think some of the places which set
> the string directly probably shouldn't; instead, they should call
> PySSL_SetError to cons up the error name directly from the err code.
> However, PySSL_SetError only works after the construction of an ssl
> object, which means it can't be used there...  I'll take a longer look
> at it and see if there's a reasonable fix.

Here's a patch which addresses this.  It also fixes the indentation in
PySSL_SetError, bringing it into line with PEP 7, fixes a compile warning
about one of the OpenSSL macros, and makes the namespace a bit more
consistent.  I've tested it on FC 7 and OS X 10.4.

% ./python ./Lib/test/regrtest.py -R :1: -u all test_ssl
test_ssl
beginning 6 repetitions
123456
......
1 test OK.
[29244 refs]
%

[GvR: slightly edited to enforce 79-char line length, even if it required
 violating the style guide.]

> the better option.  Then the openssl command in the test code can be turned
> into a comment describing how the test data was pregenerated.

Here's a patch that does that.

Bill