* Avoid creating unused local variables where we can.  Where we can't prefix
  the unused variables with '_'.
* Avoid shadowing builtins where it won't change the external interface of a
  function.
* Use None as default path arg to readmodule and readmodule_ex.

function parameters.

* The only exception we should catch when trying to import cStringIO is an
  ImportError.
* Delete the function signatures embedded in the mk*temp docstrings.
* The tempdir global variable was initialized twice.

'/' char on Windows.  Patch 2061 Tal Einat.

space.  Patch 1196903 Jeff Shute.

M    idlelib/PyShell.py
M    idlelib/EditorWindow.py
M    idlelib/NEWS.txt

Added PyErr_WarnPy3k function. (issue 2671) I will be converting current Py3k warnings to the use of this function soon.

the compiler.  This should(?) help to fix failures in test_math
and test_cmath on Linux/alpha.

Also add configure message reporting the result of uname -m, as
a debugging aid.

This is a modified version of a patch proposed by Humberto Diogenes
in the discussion of issue1883.

I will merge manually this change into the py3k branch: the tests must be adapted.

See http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-checkins/2008-April/068633.html
the extra events perfectly match several calls to socket._fileobject.__del__()

Backport candidate for the release25-maint branch.

This happened only when 8 is the first digit.
Credits go to Lukas Meuser.

for backwards compatibility, yet 2.5 did not have them at all.

derive the same default base class.

Will backport.

* Default to using /dev/tty for the password prompt and input before
  falling back to sys.stdin and sys.stderr.
* Use sys.stderr instead of sys.stdout.
* print the 'password may be echoed' warning to stream used to display
  the prompt rather than always sys.stderr.
* warn() with GetPassWarning when input may be echoed.