* Can now test for basic blocks.
* Optimize inverted comparisions.
* Optimize unary_not followed by a conditional jump.
* Added a new opcode, NOP, to keep code size constant.
* Applied NOP to previous transformations where appropriate.

Note, the NOP would not be necessary if other functions were
added to re-target jump addresses and update the co_lnotab mapping.
That would yield slightly faster and cleaner bytecode at the
expense of optimizer simplicity and of keeping it decoupled
from the line-numbering structure.

  * UINT_MAX -> ULONG_MAX since we are dealing with longs
  * ParseTuple needs &int for 'i' and &long for 'l'
    There may be a better way to do this, but this works.

Remove "." in coverage output for lines with comments.
Silence complaints in coverage output about unexecuted docstrings.

Eliminate use of inspect module in favor of direct access to frame and
code objects.  We're in a trace function here:  Efficiency counts!

Remove unused code.  Reflow long lines.

Remove backwards compatibility for stored trace output from Zooko's
experiment to add calledfuncs to the pickled dict.

Move code to generate per-file coverage stats to a separate routine.

Replace use of parser module with call to compile.

- restructure build for modules now in Python DLL

README.os2emx
- clean out old cruft no longer appropriate now that EMX port builds
  from CVS
- reflect move of modules into core DLL
- add section on building from source

- add _csv module to the build list
- various cleanups

config.c:
- various cleanups

pyconfig.h:
- various cleanups

popen[234]() code

  string does what is expected (ie unset [BEGIN|END]LIBPATH)

- set the size of the DosQuerySysInfo buffer correctly; it was safe,
  but incorrect (allowing a 1 element overrun)

test/test_optik.py (rev 1.19) from the Optik CVS.

  * Fixed some long-hidden bugs revealed by the new PyUnit-based
    test suite (thanks to Johannes Gijsbers the new test suite,
    improved tests that caught the bugs, and the bug fixes).

  * Make store_true/store_false store True/False rather than 1/0.

Details available in Optik's CVS repository.

I've applied a modified version of Greg Chapman's patch. I've included
the fixes without introducing the reorganization mentioned, for the sake
of stability. Also, the second fix mentioned in the patch don't fix the
mentioned problem anymore, because of the change introduced by patch
#720991 (by Greg as well). The new fix wasn't complicated though, and is
included as well.

As a note. It seems that there are other places that require the
"protection" of LASTMARK_SAVE()/LASTMARK_RESTORE(), and are just waiting
for someone to find how to break them. Particularly, I belive that every
recursion of SRE_MATCH() should be protected by these macros. I won't
do that right now since I'm not completely sure about this, and we don't
have much time for testing until the next release.

  meaningful parameters.

  match objects work.

  to be compliant with previous python versions, by backing out the changes
  made in revision 2.84 which affected this. The bugfix for backtracking is
  still maintained.

particular leaving the traceback object (and everything reachable
from it) alive throughout shutdown.  The patch is mostly from Guido.

Bugfix candidate.

  raising an exception.  This is consistent with calling the
  constructors for the other builtin types -- called without argument
  they all return the false value of that type.  (SF patch #724135)
  Thanks to Alex Martelli.

  which specifies a file where to divert the command's output
  (already supported by the body() method).  (SF patch #720468)
  Thanks to Terry Carroll.

Various rewrites

Will backport to 2.2.

it's a convenience only and give hints on what to do for more
flexibility.

it's a convenience only.  Give an example of what to do for more
flexibility.

fails only in UCS-2 mode, since it tests a non-BMP character.

On cygwin, the setup.py script uses unixccompiler.py for compiling and linking
C extensions. The unixccompiler.py script assumes that executables do not get
special extensions, which makes sense for Unix.  However, on Cygwin,
executables get an .exe extension.

This causes a problem during the configuration step (python setup.py config),
in which some temporary executables may be generated. As unixccompiler.py does
not know about the .exe extension, distutils fails to clean up after itself: it
does not remove _configtest.exe but tries to remove _configtest instead.

The attached patch to unixccompiler.py sets the correct exe_extension for
cygwin by checking if sys.platform is 'cygwin'. With this patch, distutils
cleans up after itself correctly.

Michiel de Hoon
University of Tokyo, Human Genome Center.

  class; closes SF patch #697941
- use em-dashes intead of en-dashes
- section references: use a "tie" between the word "section" and the
  section number, use quotation marks around section titles
- other minor markup corrections/cleanups