is slow things down unnecessarily and make tracing much more verbose.
Something like

    def f(n):
	return [i for i in range(n) if i%2]

should have at most two SET_LINENO instructions, not four.  When tracing,
the current line number should be printed once, not 2*n+1 times.

defined and the default was "pre" instead of "sre".  Give up on 1.5.2
compatibility, hardcode the sre solution.  However, this XXX comment
still applies, AFAIK:
        # XXX This code depends on internals of the regular expression
        # engine!  There's no standard API to do a substitution when you
        # have already found the match.  One should be added.

package, and the loss of the test/data directory.

imports e.g. test_support must do so using an absolute package name
such as "import test.test_support" or "from test import test_support".

This also updates the README in Lib/test, and gets rid of the
duplicate data dirctory in Lib/test/data (replaced by
Lib/email/test/data).

Now Tim and Jack can have at it. :)

command line for Windows builds.  This should allow MSVC to import and
build the Python MSVC6 project files without error.

character set, which we'll convert to a Charset instance.  Sigh.

will return as the charset if implicit us-ascii is used.

Return the selected item, if there is any.

Mention portable strptime()
Move C-level sections farther down in the file

[ 583894 ] doc DL_IMPORT/DL_EXPORT changes

Fixed potential refcount problems with interned strings, adapted comments, added a bit more trace output if verbose > 1.

array.  Our samplesort special-cases the snot out of this, running about
12x faster than *sort.  The experimental mergesort runs it about 8x
faster than *sort without special-casing, but should really do better
than that (when merging runs of different lengths, right now it only
does something clever about finding where the second run begins in
the first and where the first run ends in the second, and that's more
of a temp-memory optimization).

    from test.test_support import TestSkipped, run_unittest
to
    from test_support import TestSkipped, run_unittest

Otherwise, if the Japanese codecs aren't installed, regrtest doesn't
believe the TestSkipped exception raised by this test matches the

    except (ImportError, test_support.TestSkipped), msg:

it's looking for, and reports the skip as a crash failure instead of
as a skipped test.

I suppose this will make it harder to run this test outside of
regrtest, but under the assumption only Barry does that, better to
make it skip cleanly for everyone else.

opened on top of the shell instead of in a new window.

available in the configure tests already.

It's a little better than average for our sort.

copying the result of fgetc() into an int variable before testing it
for EOF.

'en' in teardown().  This way hopefully test_time.py won't fail.

(i.e. email.test), so move the guts of them here from Lib/test.  The
latter directory will retain stubs to run the email.test tests using
Python's standard regression test.

test_email_torture.py is a torture tester which will not run under
Python's test suite because I don't want to commit megs of data to
that project (it will fail cleanly there).  When run under the mimelib
project it'll stress test the package with megs of message samples
collected from various locations in the wild.

(i.e. email.test), so move the guts of them here from Lib/test.  The
latter directory will retain stubs to run the email.test tests using
Python's standard regression test.

test_email_torture.py is a torture tester which will not run under
Python's test suite because I don't want to commit megs of data to
that project (it will fail cleanly there).  When run under the mimelib
project it'll stress test the package with megs of message samples
collected from various locations in the wild.

email/test/data is a copy of Lib/test/data.  The fate of the latter is
still undecided.

mimelib-devel list is that non-strict parsing should be the default.
Make it so.

non-strict parsing should be the default.  Make it so.