instead of into a list for a bit of speed/space savings.  Reopened the
bug report too (628246), as I'm unclear on why we don't sort out the
cause of the TypeError instead.

The _update method detected mutable elements by trapping TypeErrors.
Unfortunately, this masked useful TypeErrors raised by the iterable
itself.  For cases where it is possible for an iterable to raise
a TypeError, the iterable is pre-converted to a list outside the
try/except so that any TypeErrors propagate through.

dialogs are now stored in Mac/Lib, and loaded on demand through macresource.
Not only does this simplify a MacPython based on Apple's Python, but
it also makes Mac error codes come out symbolically when running command
line python (if you have Mac/Lib in your path).

The resource files are copied from Mac/Resources. The old ones will disappear
after the OS9 build procedure has been adjusted.

The errors attribute can be changed after the reader/writer
is created.

For encoding there are two additional errors values:
"xmlcharrefreplace" and "backslashreplace".

These values can be extended via register_error().

   dir(xrange(10))
   xrange(10).__getitem__(4)

always available on Windows NT. When the function cannot be loaded,
get_special_folder_path raises OSError, "function not available".

Compiled the exe, and rebuilt bdist_wininst.py.

See http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2002-November/003039.html

(Hope the markup is ok).

This bug happened because: 1) the scanner_search and scanner_match methods
were not checking the buffer limits before increasing the current pointer;
and 2) SRE_SEARCH was using "if (ptr == end)" as a loop break, instead of
"if (ptr >= end)".

* Modules/_sre.c
  (SRE_SEARCH): Check for "ptr >= end" to break loops, so that we don't
  hang forever if a pointer passing the buffer limit is used.
  (scanner_search,scanner_match): Don't increment the current pointer
  if we're going to pass the buffer limit.

* Misc/NEWS
  Mention the fix.

[SF patch 634250 -- that was an IDLEFORK patch.]

* Lib/distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py
  (bdist_rpm.initialize_options): Included verify_script attribute.
  (bdist_rpm.finalize_package_data): Ensure that verify_script is a filename.
  (bdist_rpm._make_spec_file): Included verify_script in script_options
  tuple.

* Misc/NEWS
  Mention change.

and StreamRecoder.

This closes SF bug #634246.

Also remove the 512 character limitation for int(u"...") and long(u"...").

This closes SF bug #629989.

Fixes a test failure on 64 bit platforms (I hope).

    Make docs accurate; getch() in nodelay mode returns -1

   Make keyname raise ValueError if passed -1, avoiding a segfault
   Make getkey() match the docs and raise an exception in nodelay mode
   The return type of getch() is int, not chtype

from Greg Chapman.

* Modules/_sre.c
  (lastmark_restore): New function, implementing algorithm to restore
  a state to a given lastmark. In addition to the similar algorithm used
  in a few places of SRE_MATCH, restore lastindex when restoring lastmark.
  (SRE_MATCH): Replace lastmark inline restoring by lastmark_restore(),
  function. Also include it where missing. In SRE_OP_MARK, set lastindex
  only if i > lastmark.

* Lib/test/re_tests.py
* Lib/test/test_sre.py
  Included regression tests for the fixed bugs.

* Misc/NEWS
  Mention fixes.

being on a case-insensitive filesystem, not the source directory.

a caret in this case too.

text is the search term.

pretty-prints the value of its expression argument.