Will backport to 2.3.

Python was built with VC 7.1.

It's not the 100% solution -- it may not even be the 90% solution -- but
it does seem to help.

an initlog() (and initlog()'s docstring says "don't use this"!) This
allows test_cgi to be run repeatedly in a single run of the interpreter.

way to guarantee a deadlock on the next call!

If I've inadvertently done some damage to this test, sorry (but I don't
think I have).

Hard to believe it ever helped anything, and it hurts finding reference
leaks.

the case of __del__ resurrecting an object.
This makes the apparent reference leaks in test_descr go away (which I
expected) and also kills off those in test_gc (which is more surprising
but less so once you actually think about it a bit).

connect error

comma expression in listpop() that was being returned.  Still essentially
unused (as it is meant to be), but now the compiler thinks it is worth
*something* by having it incremented.

- fix broken assert statement; should just raise

have differing refcount semantics.  If anyone sees a prettier way to
acheive the same ends, then please go for it.

I think this is the first time I've ever used Py_XINCREF.

(or to whatever the 'insert' method chose to return).

must have annoyed me at some point.

* Fixes an incorrect variable in a PyDict_CheckExact.
* Allow general mapping locals arguments for the execfile() function
  and exec statement.
* Add tests.

"@ seems the syntax that everybody can hate equally"
Implementation by Mark Russell, from SF #979728.

after a failed import.

This is the last checkin in the "change import failure semantics" series.