XXX notes for now.

I could use help here!!!!  Please mail me patches ASAP.  We may have
to put some of this off to 2.0final, but it's best to have it in shape
now...

of distribution files in ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/src/).

Fabulous Prize for being our first Windows ME tester!  Also our only,
and I think he should get another prize just for that."

Tismer's clone, and to list Hajime Saitou's real name.

Added a note that the file uses Latin-1 (as distributed).

URLs, add various useful URLs.  Update address and email.  Drop PSA
and copyright.  Add license info.

the Python Unicode implementation.

The internal buffer used for implementing the buffer protocol
is renamed to defenc to make this change visible. It now holds the
default encoded version of the Unicode object and is calculated
on demand (NULL otherwise).

Since the default encoding defaults to ASCII, this will mean that
Unicode objects which hold non-ASCII characters will no longer
work on C APIs using the "s" or "t" parser markers. C APIs must now
explicitly provide Unicode support via the "u", "U" or "es"/"es#"
parser markers in order to work with non-ASCII Unicode strings.

(Note: this patch will also have to be applied to the 1.6 branch
 of the CVS tree.)

accepted yet!)

the insertion of the text.

Updated to version 1.5. Includes typo fixes by Andrew Kuchling
and a new section on the default encoding.

Montanaro, handle execution of indented regions by inserting an "if
1:" in front of the block.  This better preserves things like triple
quoted strings and commented regions.  This patch resolves PR#264.

Added a useful link to Markus Kuhn's Unicode and UTF-8
FAQ.

Updated to version 1.4.

(everyone who said something remotely useful in the last 100 messages
I archived has been added :-).

distutils lurking in CVS logs that I probably haven't read.  Oh well.

1.5.2 was released, except those who contributed only to Doc files --
Fred has his own way of doing this.

This doesn't mean that I've got everyone who contributed *before*
1.5.2 was released in here... :-(