when a users install GNU libtool early in his PATH

Calls using METH_OLDARGS unpack this tuple; calls using METH_VARARG
don't.  Tcl's concatenation of args was affected; IDLE doesn't start.

Modify Tkapp_Call() to unpack single tuple arglists.

Bug 1733943
Ref http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-checkins/2007-May/060454.html

distutils or external build processes can find them.

parameter.

popen2 is also complaining probably for similar reasons.
make install always reports failure, so don't mail in this case.

Will backport to 2.5.

Py_ssize_t members.

Simplify the implementation of UnicodeError objects:
start and end attributes are now stored directly as
Py_ssize_t members, which simplifies various get and
set functions.

Will backport to 2.5.

Build sqlite3.dll and bsddb.

(for ReleaseAMD64 builds).

Add bufferoverflowU.lib to the libraries needed by _ssl (is this the
right thing to do?).

right thing to do?).

Set the /XP64 /RETAIL build enviroment in the makefile when building
ReleaseAMD64.

a new optional timeout parameter, and a versionadded flag to
the socket.create_connection function.

or "K" codes.

Will backport