table' of the dll, to make sure that the dll really was build for the
correct Python version.  It does this by looking for an entry
'pythonXY.dll' (X.Y is the Python version number).

The code now checks the size of the dll's import table before reading
entries from it.  Before this patch, the code crashed trying to read
the import table when the size was zero (as in Win2k's wmi.dll, for
example).

Look for imports of 'pythonXY_d.dll' in a debug build instead of
'pythonXY.dll'.

Fixes SF 951851: Crash when reading "import table" of certain windows dlls.

Already backported to the 2.3 branch.

Patch from Mark Hammond.
Recompiled binary.

Already packported to the 2.3 branch.

The builtin eval() function now accepts any mapping for the locals argument.
Time sensitive steps guarded by PyDict_CheckExact() to keep from slowing
down the normal case.  My timings so no measurable impact.

char *`` instead of just ``char *``.  Also added the mentioning of "const" in
some places where it was left out even when the signature already stated the
fact.

Closes bug #980925.

test_repr() fails with id() values that appear negative

instead of ValueError.

Add a note about error handling schemes added by PEP 293.

[ 924301 ] A leak case with cmd.py & readline & exception

by ensuring that the readline completion function is always reset
even in the case of an exception being raised.  As a bonus, this
makes the documentation for pre & postloop accurate again.

* Format an example so that the identation is more obvious.
* Add a section on the decimal module to the Brief Tour Part II.

on the marshalling characteristics of infinities.

end-of-options marker wasn't recognized

(I ran this through texcheck, but don't have LaTeX installed on this machine and therefore haven't
verified that the changes are accepted by LaTeX.)

[Bug #912845] urllib2 only checks for a 200 return code, but 206 is also legal if a Range: header was supplied.
(Actually, should the first 'if' statement be modified to allow any 2xx status code?)

entailed editing the urlparse module.

location) in its addressing.

Closes bug #981299.

PyArg_ParseTuple() to ``const char *`` to match the recommendation made in
section 1.3 and to support better coding habits.

Section 1.8 ("Keyword Parameters for Extension Functions") and it's coding
example were not touched since it is stems from an accredited source and thus
did not want to step on anyone's toes.

Now runs without exception on WinME/98.

Based on a patch supplied by Ian Ward <ian@arevco.ca> on the pybsddb
mailing list 2004-03-26.

Make DBTxn objects automatically call abort() in their destructor if
not yet finalized and raise a RuntimeWarning to that effect.

getservbyname() optional.  Update the tests and the docs.

Fix memory leaks revealed by valgrind and ensuing code inspection.

In the existing test suite valgrind revealed two memory leaks (DB_get
and DBC_set_range).  Code inspection revealed that there were many other
potential similar leaks (many on odd code error paths such as passing
something other than a DBTxn object for a txn= parameter or in the face
of an out of memory error).  The most common case that would cause a
leak was when using recno or queue format databases with integer keys,
sometimes only with an exception exit.

Cleaned up existing code by abstracting code to parse arguments.  Also removed
any unneeded operations (such as calling 'int' on a division when using floor
division also works).  Fixed a bug where the values  returned by
OldStyleRange could be short by one value.  Added more documentation.

Testing code also has a basic sanity check.