Most of the import sequence now uses per-module locks rather than the
global import lock, eliminating well-known issues with threads and imports.

in tokenize module and prevents leaking of private names through
import *.

Merged revisions 61038,61042-61045,61047,61050,61053,61055-61056,61061-61064,61066-61080 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r61063 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-02-25 17:29:19 +0100 (Mon, 25 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Move .setupterm() output so that we don't try to call endwin() if it fails
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  r61064 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-02-25 17:29:58 +0100 (Mon, 25 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Use file descriptor for real stdout
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  r61067 | facundo.batista | 2008-02-25 19:06:00 +0100 (Mon, 25 Feb 2008) | 4 lines


  Issue 2117.  Update compiler module to handle class decorators.
  Thanks Thomas Herve
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  r61069 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-25 21:17:56 +0100 (Mon, 25 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Rename sphinx.addons to sphinx.ext.
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  r61071 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-25 21:20:45 +0100 (Mon, 25 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Revert r61029.
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  r61072 | facundo.batista | 2008-02-25 23:33:55 +0100 (Mon, 25 Feb 2008) | 4 lines


  Issue 2168. gdbm and dbm needs to be iterable; this fixes a
  failure in the shelve module.  Thanks Thomas Herve.
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  r61073 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-25 23:42:32 +0100 (Mon, 25 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Make sure the itertools filter functions give the same performance for func=bool as func=None.
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  r61074 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-26 00:17:41 +0100 (Tue, 26 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Revert part of r60927 which made invalid assumptions about the API offered by db modules.
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  r61075 | facundo.batista | 2008-02-26 00:46:02 +0100 (Tue, 26 Feb 2008) | 3 lines


  Coerced PyBool_Type to be able to compare it.
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  r61076 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-26 03:46:54 +0100 (Tue, 26 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Docs for itertools.combinations().  Implementation in forthcoming checkin.
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  r61077 | neal.norwitz | 2008-02-26 05:50:37 +0100 (Tue, 26 Feb 2008) | 3 lines

  Don't use a hard coded port.  This test could hang/fail if the port is in use.
  Speed this test up by avoiding a sleep and using the event.
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  r61078 | neal.norwitz | 2008-02-26 06:12:50 +0100 (Tue, 26 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Whitespace normalization
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  r61079 | neal.norwitz | 2008-02-26 06:23:51 +0100 (Tue, 26 Feb 2008) | 1 line

  Whitespace normalization
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  r61080 | georg.brandl | 2008-02-26 07:40:10 +0100 (Tue, 26 Feb 2008) | 2 lines

  Banish tab.
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  and .keys(), .items(), .values() return dict views.

The dict views aren't fully functional yet; in particular, they can't
be compared to sets yet.  but they are useful as "iterator wells".

There are still 27 failing unit tests; I expect that many of these
have fairly trivial fixes, but there are so many, I could use help.

(a) "except E, V" -> "except E as V"
(b) V is now limited to a simple name (local variable)
(c) V is now deleted at the end of the except block

but looks like that was a problem before this change.

"@ seems the syntax that everybody can hate equally"
Implementation by Mark Russell, from SF #979728.

allow "testlist1" to be snagged.

The attached patches update the standard library so that all modules
have docstrings beginning with one-line summaries.

A new docstring was added to formatter.  The docstring for os.py
was updated to mention nt, os2, ce in addition to posix, dos, mac.

front of temporary names in the module namespace.

* test_grammar.py, testall.out: added test for funny things in string literals
* token.py, symbol.py: definitions used with built-in parser module.
* tokenize.py: added double-quote recognition