field on systems that support shadow passwords.

Will backport to 2.4.

individually as tests.

Also improved output when the test fails.

Combined efforts of many including Peter Harris, Hye-Shik Chang,
Martin v. Löwis, Nick Coghlan, Paul Moore, and Raymond Hettinger.

and improve the speed of the if/elif/else blocks.

remove_history and replace_history. Will backport to 2.4.

Also add xdrlib._test into the test suite.

Delete some advice that can never, ever have worked.

There are a couple of XXX comments for bits I don't know how to
update.  It would be really good not to release Python 2.5 with these
in place :)

This file is way too big.  There's basically no chance of it staying
up to date.

Add a test in case the underlying assumptions ever change (i.e. the
compiler starts generating code blocks that are not punctuated by
RETURN_VALUE).

Afterwards, -0.5 loads in a single step and no longer requires a runtime
UNARY_NEGATIVE operation.

Afterwards, -0.5 loads in a single step and no longer requires a runtime
UNARY_NEGATIVE operation.

* Speed-up str.count() by using memchr() to fly between first char matches.

* Speed-up "x in y" where x has more than one character.

The existing code made excessive calls to the expensive memcmp() function.
The new code uses memchr() to rapidly find a start point for memcmp().
In addition to knowing that the first character is a match, the new code
also checks that the last character is a match.  This significantly reduces
the incidence of false starts (saving memcmp() calls and making quadratic
behavior less likely).

Improves the timings on:
    python -m timeit -r7 -s"x='a'*1000" "'ab' in x"
    python -m timeit -r7 -s"x='a'*1000" "'bc' in x"

Once this code has proven itself, then string_find_internal() should refer
to it rather than running its own version.  Also, something similar may
apply to unicode objects.

newline.

Thanks to Robert Dick <dickrp@ece.northwestern.edu> for reporting this bug
and submitting a patch.

Adjust doc(object) to display useful documentation for plain values (e.g.
help([]) now shows the methods on the list instead of just printing "[]").

(This change has been tested interactively, by generating docs for the
standard library, and by running the module documentation webserver.)

and UserString.MutableString.__delitem__.

Will backport to 2.4.

[ 1124295 ] Function's __name__ no longer accessible in restricted mode

[ 1124295 ] Function's __name__ no longer accessible in restricted mode

which I introduced with a bit of mindless copy-paste when making
__name__ writable.  You can't assign to __name__ in restricted mode,
which I'm going to pretend was intentional :)

Closes bug #1124278.

defined.