Also commit several improvements in the descriptions of the QNX and
BeOS port, both by Chris Herborth.

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was referenced in instead of only the last.  (Sjoerd Mullender)

Emacs ;-)

bugs in various docstrings.

As Chris H. points out, I should have added 'extern' to the
declaration of _PyThreadState_Current.  Here it is.

names in the source code (they already had those for the linker,
through some smart macros; but the source still had the old, un-Py names).

(Also added an XXX comment requesting clarification of module
initialization -- TBD later.)

strings are not actually modified.  Problem reported by Dr. Peter
Stoehr <peter.stoehr@weihenstephan.org>.

the process table.

"""
The message ID is returned lowercased and there is no way to access
the original ID the server sent. Now at least some news servers
are very picky about the case of the ID and return errors when
fetching articles with mixed case given a lowercased version
of the ID.

The solution is simple: remove the string.lower() call.
"""

(I might add that the lowercasing was probably introduced as a result
of sloppy copy-and-paste coding; there's a string.lower in a similar
piece of code a bit higher in the source, that makes more sense --
it's lowercasing the group name.)

(AMK: you should probably copy this into your patch set for pcre.)

After a version by Fredrik Lundh that I found on the web somewhere.
(I like mine better, but of course that may have to do with my alcohol
consumption. :-)

_PyThreadState_Current, defined in pystate.c.

support a macro in pystate.h.

widget -- no time to do this right now.

explore this now.

yours, please let me know for propoer acknowledgement.)

This avoids recompiling files that haven't changed; it adds a -f
option to force recompilation.

- Fixed a bug where a syntax error was reported when a document
  started with white space.  (White space at the start of a document
  is valid if there is no XML declaration.)
- Improved the speed quite a bit for documents that don't make use of
  namespaces.

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NOTE: There is still a bug of some sort in the behavior of zlib.  In
at least one case, inflate returns Z_OK (which is typically
interpreted to mean that more output space is needed) when it has
finished inflating a buffer.  This has been reported as a bug to the
zlib maintainers; we may need to change the Python interface.