"classic" class objects
  [partially fixes SF bug #453684]

- add note that new-style classes can use descriptors to implement
  instance variables in different ways

Forward ported from release23-maint.

Already 'backported' to release23-maint.

whole main page.

Support 2.3 and 2.4 docs in HTMLHelp format.

Already 'backported' to release-23maint.

given prefix rather than comparing a slice.

assertRaises.

NOT a bugfix candidate.

why in a new comment.  My home Win98SE box is one of the "real systems"
alluded to (my system "default sound" appears to have vanished sometime
in the last month, that's certainly not a Python bug, and the MS
PlaySound docs are correct in their explanation of what happens then).

Bugfix candidate.  If someone can still sneak it into 2.3.1, that would
be good.

Added test whether wchar_t is signed or not. A signed wchar_t is not usable as internal unicode type base for Py_UNICODE since the unicode implementation assumes an unsigned type.

  method (PyUnit issue 563882, thanks to Alexandre Fayolle)
- Ignore non-callable attributes of classes when searching for test
  method names (PyUnit issue 769338, thanks to Seth Falcon)
- New assertTrue and assertFalse aliases for comfort of JUnit users
- Automatically discover 'runTest()' test methods (PyUnit issue 469444,
  thanks to Roeland Rengelink)
- Dropped Python 1.5.2 compatibility, merged appropriate shortcuts from
  Python CVS; should work with Python >= 2.1.
- Removed all references to string module by using string methods instead

Refactor code so that one helper routine sets error location and
increments st_errors.

Bug fix candidate.

version in the python 2.3.1 tree.

features in BerkeleyDB not exposed.  notably: the DB_MPOOLFILE interface
has not yet been wrapped in an object.

Adds support for building and installing bsddb3 in python2.3 that has
an older version of this module installed as bsddb without conflicts.
The pybsddb.sf.net build/packaged version of the module uses a
dynamicly loadable module called _pybsddb rather than _bsddb.

adding the iterator interface for python >= 2.3.

test_bad_address():  Recover from that VeriSign thought it would boost
its corporate coffers to start resolving http://www.sadflkjsasadf.com/.

Bugfix candidate -- although the bug is more VeriSign's than Python's!

exist, and neither do any of the specific 5-letter locale names the test
is looking for.

Not backported because of behaviour change.