Documentation added about changes in 2.4 to basicConfig(), including documentation of the keyword arguments. A version change note was also added to the basic example.

[ 1231069 ] ioctl has problem with -ive request codes

by using the 'I' not the 'i' format code to PyArg_ParseTuple().

Backport candidate?  Maybe...

1.179): delete bogus __hasattr__ and __delattr__ methods on class Tk
that were breaking Tkdnd.

of unicode objects, so that codecs that do a str->str decoding won't promote
the result to unicode. This fixes SF bug #1241507.

for the implementation should be consulted
(thanks to Evelyn Mitchell for suggesting this)

In addition, long_pow() skipped a necessary (albeit extremely unlikely
to trigger) error check when converting an int modulus to long.

Alas, I was unable to write a test case that crashed due to either
cause.

Bugfix candidate.

  docstrings to either "article number" or "message id".

file. This should make it a lot easier (I hope) to get the regular
expressions right.

Patch #1209527 (Contributed by Connelly).

with a PEP 263 encoding declaration results in long decoded line.

Turns out patch #1035255 was incomplete, it only patched _Filemodule.c
and not filesupport.py. So regenerating caused as_pathname() to go into
an infinite loop.

[ 1229429 ] missing Py_DECREF in PyObject_CallMethod

Add a test in test_enumerate, which is a bit random, but suffices
(reversed_new calls PyObject_CallMethod under some circumstances).