characters instead of character pointers to determine space requirements.

the same object to be collected by the cyclic GC support if they are
only referenced by a cycle.  If the weakref being collected was one of
the weakrefs without callbacks, some local variables for the
constructor became invalid and have to be re-computed.

The test caused a segfault under a debug build without the fix applied.

  PyWeakref_NewProxy() constructors from the C API
- elaborate the getweakrefcount() and getweakrefs() tests slightly

weakref ref and proxy objects; None was not being treated as identical to
NULL, though it was documented as equivalent.

This matches what is already documented for corresponding feature of the C API.

(SF patch 876178, patch by mwh, unittest by perky)

(SF Patch #888148, reviewed by loewis)

Don't link with largeint.lib anymore.

* Add unittests, newsitem, and whatsnew
* Apply to Queue.py mutex.py threading.py pydoc.py and shlex.py
* Docs are forthcoming

Closes bug #885293 (thanks, Josiah Carlson).

(could someone backport this to Python 2.3.x please?)

running an application under hotshot's control.  Only slightly embellished
from what Walter Dörwald posted to python-dev.

(*) http://www.icdc.com/~roadkill/silverstein/turtle.html

closes SF bug #842213

w/o the subprocess to fail.  Check in a fix to IDLE and IDLEfork.

M PyShell.py

Backport candidate, combine with previous.

to the execution server.  The return of the OK response from the subprocess
initialization was interfering and causing the sending socket to be not
ready.  Add an IO ready test to fix this.  Moved the polling IO ready test
into pollpacket().

M NEWS.txt
M rpc.py

Backport candidate.

connect to the user GUI process.  Added a timeout to the GUI's listening
socket.  Added Tk error dialogs to PyShell.py to announce a failure to bind
the port or connect to the subprocess.  Clean up error handling during
connection initiation phase.  This is an update of Python Patch 778323.

M NEWS.txt
M PyShell.py
M ScriptBinding.py
M run.py

Backport candidate.

closes SF bug #871402