This patch boosts performance for comparing identical string object
by some 20% on my machine while not causing any noticable slow-down
for other operations (according to tests done with pybench).

with the signature, not an ad hoc abbreviated form.

not affect the API.  Clean up the text about call syntax apply() is
equivalent to.  Based on comments by Thomas Guettler.

I'm guessing at this, pending more info from the bug submitter.  Wise
changed how the %GROUP% vrbl got defined between versions 5.0a (used
before Python 2.2) and 8.14, to hold the full path to Start Menu group
instead of just the group name.  If I'm guessing correctly, the info
the bug report is complaining about is in one of the registry keys
we set up that neither Windows nor Python cares about.  We did store
a full path there in 2.2b1 instead of just the group name; the patch cuts
it back to just the name again.

PDF version.

referenced, WeakKeyDictionary.has_key() should return 0 instead of raising
TypeError.

referencable (weakref.ref() raises TypeError), return 0 instead of
propogating the TypeError.
This closes SF bug #478536; bugfix candidate.

generally did things to get it working.

support them.

Enabled WITH_LONG_LONG. No reason it was disabled, it has been supported by the Metrowerks compiler for quite some time.

HFS+ API contributed by Nitin Ganatra. This checkin is identical to what he sent me, except for the namechange (fmgr->hfsplus).

in the presence of empty-string arguments.

   the Web page)

ntpath.join('a', '') was producing 'a' instead of 'a\\' as in 2.1.
Impossible to guess what was ever *intended*, but since split('a\\')
produces ('a', ''), I think it's best if join('a', '') gives 'a\\' back.

#477864.

my own doing, some originally written by Matthew Dixon Cowles.

does not share data with the original.

original by replacing self.data temporarily, then using the update() method
on the new mapping object to populate it.
This closes SF bug #476616.

Universal Headers 3.4

Carbon Event Manager module donated by Donovan Preston. Checked in as I received them (except for namechange), these will not work as-is, that'll be fixed in a later checkin.

Make the CoreFoundation object _New and _Convert routines available to other modules. Idea by Donovan Preston, implementaion by me.

removed some outdated code.

which makes it work under Carbon. Next stop: the object browser.