Closes SF bug #450803.

Patch by John J Lee
Reviewed by Jeff Epler / KBK
Doc built OK.

urlopen() may return None if no handler handles the request.

Also clarify what install_opener does.

M liburllib2.tex

that behaves as if both lists has an empty string in each of them.

Closes bug #979794 (and duplicate bug #980117).

Closes bug #980938.

the loop starts.

Closes bug #930024.  Thanks AM Kuchling.

PyArg_VaParse().

Closes patch #550732.  Thanks Greg Chapman.

Read multiple special headers
- fixed/improved handling of extended/special headers
in read-mode (adding new extended headers should be
less painful now).
- improved nts() function.
- removed TarFile.chunks datastructure which is not
(and was never) needed.
- fixed TarInfo.tobuf(), fields could overflow with too
large values, values are now clipped.

docstrings for decode and encode; accidentally were left out of the PyMethodDev
table.

[Patch #909007] Enable a bunch of safe bug workarounds in OpenSSL, for compatibility with various broken SSL implementations out there.

(It turns out that the Debian unstable packaging of Python 2.3.4 includes this patch.)
Patch by Tino Lange.

are no default arguments for the function.

path.  Also clarifies UNC handling and adds appropriate tests.

Applies patch #988607 to fix bug #980327.  Thanks Paul Moore.

off #ifndef's.

Misc/ACKS.

(ZIP file spec. says in section K, "General notes" in point 1 that unless
specified otherwise values are unsigned and they are not specified as signed in
the spec).

Closes bug #679953.  Thanks Jimmy Burgett.

[Bug #835415] AIX can return modes that are >65536, which causes an OverflowError.  Fix from Albert Chin

Don't output empty tags
Escape page header
Remove <p> before <table> (tidy complains)

* Rename "trap_enablers" to just "traps".
* Simplify names of "settraps" and "setflags" to just "traps" and "flags".
* Show "capitals" in the context representation
* Simplify the Context constructor to match its repr form so that only
  the set flags and traps need to be listed.
* Representation can now be run through eval().

Improve the error message when the Decimal constructor is given a float.

The test suite no longer needs a duplicate reset_flags method.