for specific platforms. Use this to add plat-mac and
plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages on MacOSX. Also tested for not having adverse
effects on Linux, and I think this code isn't used on Windows anyway.

Fixes #661521.

- new import hooks in import.c, exposed in the sys module
- new module called 'zipimport'
- various changes to allow bootstrapping from zip files

I hope I didn't break the Windows build (or anything else for that
matter), but then again, it's been sitting on sf long enough...

Regarding the latest discussions on python-dev: zipimport sets
pkg.__path__ as specified in PEP 273, and likewise, sys.path item such as
/path/to/Archive.zip/subdir/ are supported again.

Python 2.3 will support source code encodings which rely on the
builtin codecs being available to the parser.

Remove struct dependency from codecs.py

setup.py (indirectly) script to build the standard dynamically loaded
modules, the errno module is being made static so it will always be
available.
Closes SF bug #591205 (needed on trunk only).

These built-in functions are replaced by their (now callable) type:

    slice()
    buffer()

and these types can also be called (but have no built-in named
function named after them)

    classobj (type name used to be "class")
    code
    function
    instance
    instancemethod (type name used to be "instance method")

The module "new" has been replaced with a small backward compatibility
placeholder in Python.

A large portion of the patch simply removes the new module from
various platform-specific build recipes.  The following binary Mac
project files still have references to it:

    Mac/Build/PythonCore.mcp
    Mac/Build/PythonStandSmall.mcp
    Mac/Build/PythonStandalone.mcp

[I've tweaked the code layout and the doc strings here and there, and
added a comment to types.py about StringTypes vs. basestring.  --Guido]

permission from Paul Everitt).  Also removed a few other references to
Digital Creations and changed the remaining ones to Zope Corporation.

helper module _ssl.

The support for the RAND_* APIs in _ssl is now only enabled
for OpenSSL 0.9.5 and up since they were added in that
release.

Note that socketmodule.* should really be renamed to _socket.* --
unfortunately, this seems to lose the CVS history of the file.

Please review and test... I was only able to test the header file
chaos in socketmodule.c/h on Linux. The test run through fine
and compiles don't give errors or warnings.

WARNING: This patch does *not* include changes to the various
non-Unix build process files.

level to 2.2a2+

This is SF patch # #409044, by Internet Discovery: "Update tcl/tk/tix
versions".

Add note about linuxaudiodev possibly working on BSD

    (Fred, I'll leave the doc changes to you, because I don't know if you
     want to delete libsoundex.tex or leave it in.
     Someone else will have to tweak PC/os2vacpp/{config.c,makefile} and
     PCbuild/pythoncore.dsp, both of which refer to soundex.c)

   and disabled from the configure script.

    commented out.

    and remove support for it from setup.py

   The final piece of this change...

   Strip down Setup.config.in and Setup.dist to the minimal sets required
       to get a working Python; setup.py will handle the rest

builds during which he forgot to uncomment crucial library lines in
Setup, walks into Guido's East End nightclub with a tactical nuclear
weapon on his shoulder.  Said nuclear weapon is promptly deployed
exactly where it will do the most good, right in the middle of
configure.in.

With this patch, the set of libraries autoconfigured in is extended to
include ndbm, gdbm, and crypt.  This essentially eliminates any need to
tweak Setup for a normal Linux build.

"'E was a fair man.  Cruel, but fair."

of dbmmodule dynamically by default (otherwise it can pull in
dependencies with libdb that croak pybsddb3).  This change moves the
Setup line for dbmmodule to Setup.config.in.

xreadlines inserted themselves inbetween the two) and clarify that the
normal socket module should be commented out. (Someone also suggested the
latter on c.l.py some time ago, I forget who, sorry.)

curses and readline (for Linux, at least).

These are done as shared libraries by default, and so is bsddb -- that
seems to make the most sense.

changes for safety and tuning.

Setup (instead of creating it from the Makefile).

the DB 3 module; thanks to Robin Dunn <robind@users.sourceforge.net>.

This closes SourceForge bug #116850.