did overwrite /dev/null.  Use a temporary file instead of /dev/null.

without thread support.  Replaced WITH_THREADS with WITH_THREAD.

the DEFAULT_MODE constant.

load shared libraries.

Actually change the MAGIC #.  Create a new section for 2.5c1 and mention the impact of changing the MAGIC #.

This could happen if size == 0.

library instance, do not set it as attribute.

means that select() on sockets > FD_SETSIZE (typically 1024) work again.
The patch makes sockets use poll() internally where available.

Make begin_fill idempotent.
Update demo2 to demonstrate filling of concave shapes.

branch into the trunk.  This adds a new sys._current_frames()
function, which returns a dict mapping thread id to topmost
thread stack frame.

Make it possible to run test_subprocess.py with Python 2.2, which lacks test_support.reap_children().

'Extension Modules' section where they belong, probably.

This destroyes the original order of the news entries, don't know
if that is important or not.

wrong fields.

non-Windows machines.

ctypes.c_void_p constructor.

Change error message to indicate that VS2003 is necessary to build extension modules, not the .NET SDK.

SDK environment should be used. Fixes #1508010.

/F wrote the text docs, Englebert Gruber massaged it to latex and I
did some more massaging to try and improve the consistency and
fix some name mismatches between the declaration and text.

already verified in .frombuf() on the lines above.  If there was
a problem an exception is raised, so there was no way this condition
could have been true.

started after line 256.

rather than longs.  This also fixes the test for eval(-sys.maxint - 1).