* Add unittests, newsitem, and whatsnew
* Apply to Queue.py mutex.py threading.py pydoc.py and shlex.py
* Docs are forthcoming

Closes bug #885293 (thanks, Josiah Carlson).

(could someone backport this to Python 2.3.x please?)

running an application under hotshot's control.  Only slightly embellished
from what Walter Dörwald posted to python-dev.

(*) http://www.icdc.com/~roadkill/silverstein/turtle.html

closes SF bug #842213

w/o the subprocess to fail.  Check in a fix to IDLE and IDLEfork.

M PyShell.py

Backport candidate, combine with previous.

to the execution server.  The return of the OK response from the subprocess
initialization was interfering and causing the sending socket to be not
ready.  Add an IO ready test to fix this.  Moved the polling IO ready test
into pollpacket().

M NEWS.txt
M rpc.py

Backport candidate.

connect to the user GUI process.  Added a timeout to the GUI's listening
socket.  Added Tk error dialogs to PyShell.py to announce a failure to bind
the port or connect to the subprocess.  Clean up error handling during
connection initiation phase.  This is an update of Python Patch 778323.

M NEWS.txt
M PyShell.py
M ScriptBinding.py
M run.py

Backport candidate.

closes SF bug #871402

messages.

messages.

or QUEUE database.

Let the default encodings search function lookup aliases before trying the codec import. This allows applications to install codecs which override (non-special-cased) builtin codecs.