Issue #17221: Resort Misc/NEWS.

Misc/NEWS

@@ -70,7 +70,6 @@ IDLE
 
 - Issue #6649: Fixed missing exit status in IDLE. Patch by Guilherme Polo.
 
-
 Documentation
 -------------
 
@@ -97,11 +96,14 @@ Core and Builtins
   mapping such that any type with a __getitem__ can be used on the right hand
   side.
 
-Library
--------
+IDLE
+----
 
 - Issue #17625: In IDLE, close the replace dialog after it is used.
 
+Tests
+-----
+
 - Issue #17531: Fix tests that thought group and user ids were always the int
   type. Also, always allow -1 as a valid group and user id.
 
@@ -237,8 +239,6 @@ Core and Builtins
 - Issue #15604: Update uses of PyObject_IsTrue() to check for and handle
   errors correctly.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
 
-- Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
-
 - Issue #14579: Fix error handling bug in the utf-16 decoder.  Patch by
   Serhiy Storchaka.
 
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ Library
 
 - Issue #12718: Fix interaction with winpdb overriding __import__ by setting
   importer attribute on BaseConfigurator instance.
-  
+
 - Issue #17521: Corrected non-enabling of logger following two calls to
   fileConfig().
 
@@ -403,14 +403,9 @@ Library
 - Issue #6975: os.path.realpath() now correctly resolves multiple nested
   symlinks on POSIX platforms.
 
-- Issue #17156: pygettext.py now correctly escapes non-ascii characters.
-
 - Issue #7358: cStringIO.StringIO now supports writing to and reading from
   a stream larger than 2 GiB on 64-bit systems.
 
-- IDLE was displaying spurious SystemExit tracebacks when running scripts
-  that terminated by raising SystemExit (i.e. unittest and turtledemo).
-
 - Issue #10355: In SpooledTemporaryFile class mode and name properties and
   xreadlines method now work for unrolled files.  encoding and newlines
   properties now removed as they have no sense and always produced
@@ -462,9 +457,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #17051: Fix a memory leak in os.path.isdir() on Windows. Patch by
   Robert Xiao.
 
-- Issue #9290: In IDLE the sys.std* streams now implement io.TextIOBase
-  interface and support all mandatory methods and properties.
-
 - Issue #13454: Fix a crash when deleting an iterator created by itertools.tee()
   if all other iterators were very advanced before.
 
@@ -482,9 +474,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #9720: zipfile now writes correct local headers for files larger than
   4 GiB.
 
-- Issue #16829: IDLE printing no longer fails if there are spaces or other
-  special characters in the file path.
-
 - Issue #13899: \A, \Z, and \B now correctly match the A, Z, and B literals
   when used inside character classes (e.g. '[\A]').  Patch by Matthew Barnett.
 
@@ -502,8 +491,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #16828: Fix error incorrectly raised by bz2.compress(''). Patch by
   Martin Packman.
 
-- Issue #16819: IDLE method completion now correctly works for unicode literals.
-
 - Issue #9586: Redefine SEM_FAILED on MacOSX to keep compiler happy.
 
 - Issue #10527: make multiprocessing use poll() instead of select() if available.
@@ -514,12 +501,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #12065: connect_ex() on an SSL socket now returns the original errno
   when the socket's timeout expires (it used to return None).
 
-- Issue #16504: IDLE now catches SyntaxErrors raised by tokenizer. Patch by
-  Roger Serwy.
-
-- Issue #16702: test_urllib2_localnet tests now correctly ignores proxies for
-  localhost tests.
-
 - Issue #16713: Fix the parsing of tel url with params using urlparse module.
 
 - Issue #16443: Add docstrings to regular expression match objects.
@@ -558,8 +539,6 @@ Library
   list() calls aren't added to filter(), map(), and zip() which are directly
   passed enumerate().
 
-- Issue #16476: Fix json.tool to avoid including trailing whitespace.
-
 - Issue #1160: Fix compiling large regular expressions on UCS2 builds.
   Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
 
@@ -590,9 +569,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #16152: fix tokenize to ignore whitespace at the end of the code when
   no newline is found.  Patch by Ned Batchelder.
 
-- Issue #1207589: Add Cut/Copy/Paste items to IDLE right click Context Menu
-  Patch by Todd Rovito.
-
 - Issue #16230: Fix a crash in select.select() when one the lists changes
   size while iterated on.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
 
@@ -678,15 +654,9 @@ Library
 - Issue #15424: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for array objects.
   Patch by Ludwig Hähne.
 
-- Issue #13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog
-  ended with '\'. Patch by Roger Serwy.
-
 - Issue #15538: Fix compilation of the getnameinfo() / getaddrinfo()
   emulation code.  Patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
 
-- Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open.
-  Patch by Roger Serwy.
-
 - Issue #12288: Consider '0' and '0.0' as valid initialvalue
   for tkinter SimpleDialog.
 
@@ -761,23 +731,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #12157: Make pool.map() empty iterables correctly.  Initial
   patch by mouad.
 
-- Issue #14958: Change IDLE systax highlighting to recognize all string and byte
-  literals currently supported in Python 2.7.
-
-- Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
-  options.  Patch by Roger Serwy.
-
-- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
-
-- Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes Idle.
-  Original patch by Roger Serwy.
-
-- Issue #10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing
-  even when parent window is closed. Patch by Roger Serwy.
-
-- Issue #14876: Use user-selected font for highlight configuration.
-  Patch by Roger Serwy.
-
 - Issue #14036: Add an additional check to validate that port in urlparse does
   not go in illegal range and returns None.
 
@@ -867,11 +820,6 @@ Library
   returned.  This avoids crashing the server loop when a signal is received.
   Patch by Jerzy Kozera.
 
-- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
-  when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
-  has to use the built-in default key bindings.
-  There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
-
 - Issue #10340: asyncore - properly handle EINVAL in dispatcher constructor on
   OSX; avoid to call handle_connect in case of a disconnected socket which
   was not meant to connect.
@@ -879,9 +827,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #12757: Fix the skipping of doctests when python is run with -OO so
   that it works in unittest's verbose mode as well as non-verbose mode.
 
-- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
-  (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
-
 - Issue #13694: asynchronous connect in asyncore.dispatcher does not set addr
   attribute.
 
@@ -889,8 +834,6 @@ Library
 
 - Issue #11199: Fix the with urllib which hangs on particular ftp urls.
 
-- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
-
 - Issue #14252: Fix subprocess.Popen.terminate() to not raise an error under
   Windows when the child process has already exited.
 
@@ -904,9 +847,6 @@ Library
 
 - Issue #2945: Make the distutils upload command aware of bdist_rpm products.
 
-- Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
-  scripts found in the Tools directory.
-
 - Issue #6884: Fix long-standing bugs with MANIFEST.in parsing in distutils
   on Windows.
 
@@ -958,9 +898,68 @@ Extension Modules
     and problematic Apple llvm-gcc compiler.  If original compiler
     is not available, use clang instead by default.
 
+IDLE
+----
+
+- IDLE was displaying spurious SystemExit tracebacks when running scripts
+  that terminated by raising SystemExit (i.e. unittest and turtledemo).
+
+- Issue #9290: In IDLE the sys.std* streams now implement io.TextIOBase
+  interface and support all mandatory methods and properties.
+
+- Issue #16829: IDLE printing no longer fails if there are spaces or other
+  special characters in the file path.
+
+- Issue #16819: IDLE method completion now correctly works for unicode literals.
+
+- Issue #16504: IDLE now catches SyntaxErrors raised by tokenizer. Patch by
+  Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #1207589: Add Cut/Copy/Paste items to IDLE right click Context Menu
+  Patch by Todd Rovito.
+
+- Issue #13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog
+  ended with '\'. Patch by Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open.
+  Patch by Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #14958: Change IDLE systax highlighting to recognize all string and byte
+  literals currently supported in Python 2.7.
+
+- Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
+  options.  Patch by Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
+
+- Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes IDLE.
+  Original patch by Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing
+  even when parent window is closed. Patch by Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #14876: Use user-selected font for highlight configuration.
+  Patch by Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
+  when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
+  has to use the built-in default key bindings.
+  There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
+
+- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
+  (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
+
+- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
+
 Tests
 -----
 
+- Issue #16702: test_urllib2_localnet tests now correctly ignores proxies for
+  localhost tests.
+
+- Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
+  scripts found in the Tools directory.
+
 - Issue #11420: make test suite pass with -B/DONTWRITEBYTECODE set.
   Initial patch by Thomas Wouters.
 
@@ -1090,17 +1089,23 @@ Build
 Tools/Demos
 -----------
 
+- Issue #17156: pygettext.py now correctly escapes non-ascii characters.
+
 - Issue #15539: Fix a number of bugs in Tools/scripts/pindent.py.  Now
   pindent.py works with a "with" statement.  pindent.py no longer produces
   improper indentation.  pindent.py now works with continued lines broken after
   "class" or "def" keywords and with continuations at the start of line.
 
+- Issue #16476: Fix json.tool to avoid including trailing whitespace.
+
 - Issue #13301: use ast.literal_eval() instead of eval() in Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py
   Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
 
 Documentation
 -------------
 
+- Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
+
 - Issue #17412: update 2.7 Doc/make.bat to also use sphinx-1.0.7.
 
 - Issue #17047: remove doubled words in docs and docstrings
@@ -1343,21 +1348,8 @@ Library
 - Issue #10811: Fix recursive usage of cursors. Instead of crashing,
   raise a ProgrammingError now.
 
-- Issue #10881: Fix test_site failures with OS X framework builds.
-
-- Issue #964437 Make IDLE help window non-modal.
-  Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.
-
-- Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
-  module, like hashlib.  (Patch by Roger Serwy)
-
-- Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
-
 - Issue #13676: Handle strings with embedded zeros correctly in sqlite3.
 
-- Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
-  Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
-
 - Issue #13806: The size check in audioop decompression functions was too
   strict and could reject valid compressed data.  Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
 
@@ -1396,10 +1388,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #8035: urllib: Fix a bug where the client could remain stuck after a
   redirection or an error.
 
-- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint
-  files, display a message popup and continue rather than crash.
-  (original patch by Roger Serwy)
-
 - tarfile.py: Correctly detect bzip2 compressed streams with blocksizes
   other than 900k.
 
@@ -1429,9 +1417,6 @@ Library
   node when it is the only child of an element.  Initial patch by Dan
   Kenigsberg.
 
-- Issue #8793: Prevent IDLE crash when given strings with invalid hex escape
-  sequences.
-
 - Issues #1745761, #755670, #13357, #12629, #1200313: HTMLParser now correctly
   handles non-valid attributes, including adjacent and unquoted attributes.
 
@@ -1454,9 +1439,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
   when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
 
-- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
-  (Patch by Roger Serwy)
-
 - Issue #7334: close source files on ElementTree.parse and iterparse.
 
 - Issue #13232: logging: Improved logging of exceptions in the presence of
@@ -1701,6 +1683,28 @@ Extension Modules
   signature.  Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
   broken.  Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
 
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #964437 Make IDLE help window non-modal.
+  Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
+  module, like hashlib.  (Patch by Roger Serwy)
+
+- Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
+  Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint
+  files, display a message popup and continue rather than crash.
+  (original patch by Roger Serwy)
+
+- Issue #8793: Prevent IDLE crash when given strings with invalid hex escape
+  sequences.
+
+- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
+  (Patch by Roger Serwy)
+
 Build
 -----
 
@@ -1741,6 +1745,10 @@ Tests
 - Issue #11689: Fix a variable scoping error in an sqlite3 test.
   Initial patch by Torsten Landschoff.
 
+- Issue #10881: Fix test_site failures with OS X framework builds.
+
+- Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
+
 - Issue #13304: Skip test case if user site-packages disabled (-s or
   PYTHONNOUSERSITE).  (Patch by Carl Meyer)
 
@@ -1913,9 +1921,6 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
-- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
-  when opening a long file.  With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
-
 - Issue #12161: Cause StringIO.getvalue() to raise a ValueError when used on a
   closed StringIO instance.
 
@@ -1937,9 +1942,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
   to be able to unload the module.
 
-- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
-  with Tk 8.5.
-
 - Issue #10154, #10090: change the normalization of UTF-8 to "UTF-8" instead
   of "UTF8" in the locale module as the latter is not supported MacOSX and OpenBSD.
 
@@ -1959,8 +1961,6 @@ Library
 
 - Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
 
-- Issue #11164: Remove obsolete allnodes test from minidom test.
-
 - Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented.  Patch
   by Kasun Herath.
 
@@ -2112,17 +2112,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64.
   Patch by Stan Mihai.
 
-- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
-  menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
-  The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
-
-- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
-  than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
-  64-/32-bit installer variant.
-
-- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
-  commands.
-
 - Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
 
 - Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
@@ -2131,9 +2120,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
   a symbol named FSTAT.
 
-- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
-  Cocoa AquaTk.
-
 - Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as
   length and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file
   is made (IndexError is raised instead).  Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
@@ -2192,8 +2178,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client,
   to avoid denial of services from the other party.
 
-- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
-
 - Issue #9907: Fix tab handling on OSX when using editline by calling
   rl_initialize first, then setting our custom defaults, then reading .editrc.
 
@@ -2211,11 +2195,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
   causes debug mode to fail.
 
-- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
-
-- Issue #10406: Enable Rstrip IDLE extension on OSX (just like on other
-  platforms).
-
 - Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
   way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
   current process.
@@ -2262,6 +2241,39 @@ Extension Modules
 
 - Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
 
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
+  file in a package.
+
+- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
+  when opening a long file.  With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
+
+- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
+  with Tk 8.5.
+
+- Issue #10940: Workaround an IDLE hang on Mac OS X 10.6 when using the
+  menu accelerators for Open Module, Go to Line, and New Indent Width.
+  The accelerators still work but no longer appear in the menu items.
+
+- Issue #10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5, rather
+  than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one, when running with the
+  64-/32-bit installer variant.
+
+- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
+  commands.
+
+- Issue #6075: IDLE on Mac OS X now works with both Carbon AquaTk and
+  Cocoa AquaTk.
+
+- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
+
+- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
+
+- Issue #10406: Enable Rstrip IDLE extension on OSX (just like on other
+  platforms).
+
 Build
 -----
 
@@ -2307,15 +2319,11 @@ Build
 - Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
   using GCC 4.0.
 
-IDLE
-----
-
-- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
-  file in a package.
-
 Tests
 -----
 
+- Issue #11164: Remove obsolete allnodes test from minidom test.
+
 - Issue #12205: Fix test_subprocess failure due to uninstalled test data.
 
 - Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
@@ -2384,9 +2392,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #4493: urllib2 adds '/' in front of path components which does not
   start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.
 
-- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
-  the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
-
 - Issue #10407: Fix one NameError in distutils.
 
 - Issue #10198: fix duplicate header written to wave files when writeframes()
@@ -2397,6 +2402,12 @@ Library
 
 - Issue #5111: IPv6 Host in the Header is wrapped inside [ ]. Patch by Chandru.
 
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #6378: idle.bat now runs with the appropriate Python version rather than
+  the system default. Patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar.
+
 Build
 -----
 
@@ -5046,9 +5057,6 @@ Library
 
 - Issue #6048: Now Distutils uses the tarfile module in archive_util.
 
-- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
-  whitespace.
-
 - Issue #6121: pydoc now ignores leading and trailing spaces in the argument to
   the 'help' function.
 
@@ -5707,6 +5715,14 @@ Library
 
 - Windows locale mapping updated to Vista.
 
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #5150: IDLE's format menu now has an option to strip trailing
+  whitespace.
+
+- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
+
 Tools/Demos
 -----------
 
@@ -5740,8 +5756,6 @@ Build
 
 - Issue #6094: Build correctly with Subversion 1.7.
 
-- Issue #5847: Remove -n switch on "Edit with IDLE" menu item.
-
 - Issue #5726: Make Modules/ld_so_aix return the actual exit code of the linker,
   rather than always exit successfully.  Patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
 
@@ -8561,9 +8575,6 @@ Library
   Allows the demo2 function to be executed on its own instead of only
   when the module is run as a script.
 
-- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
-  started with that option.
-
 - Bug #1565150: Fix subsecond processing for os.utime on Windows.
 
 - Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
@@ -8612,9 +8623,6 @@ Library
 
 - Bug #1531862: Do not close standard file descriptors in subprocess.
 
-- idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
-  #299092).
-
 - Fix utf-8-sig incremental decoder, which didn't recognise a BOM when
   the first chunk fed to the decoder started with a BOM, but was
   longer than 3 bytes.
@@ -8857,6 +8865,15 @@ Extension Modules
 
 - The sqlite3 module was updated to pysqlite 2.4.1.
 
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent is
+  started with that option.
+
+- IDLE: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug
+  #299092).
+
 Tests
 -----