the Modules/ directory.  Most of the remaining undocumented modules
seem to be living there.

always lowercasing the option name, call a method optionxform() which
can be overridden.  Also make the regexps SECTRE and OPTRE non-private
variables so they can also be overridden.

Edited several of the descriptions for English usage and more
consistent style.

side-effect of cmpcache.cmp() using statcache.stat() internally.

may raise an exception (when there are no children).  Reported by
Andy Dustman.

next Python release.

	 mode attribute of the file object (if it has one), otherwise
	 use 'rb'.

	 The documentation should still show this as required until
	 there's a new release.

ExtensionClasses in isinstance() and issubclass().

  - abstract instance and class protocols are used *only* in those
    cases that would generate errors before the patch.  That is, there's
    no penalty for the normal case.

  - instance protocol: an object smells like an instance if it
    has a __class__ attribute that smells like a class.

  - class protocol: an object smells like a class if it has a
    __bases__ attribute that is a tuple with elements that
    smell like classes (although not all elements may actually get
    sniffed ;).

confusing to end users of IDEs.

Added support for unseekable files.

(I use unqualified excepts since we don't know why the seek/tell might
fail.  In my case it was because of an AttributeError.)

and suggests putting a try/except around the get_request() call in
handle_request().  (All in class TCPServer.)

only by the interpreter core and is not overridable by objects.

Based on comment from David Ascher on the list.

Problem: rfc822.py in 1.5.2 final loses the quotes around
quoted local-part names.

The fix is to preserve the quotes around a local-part
name in an address.

Test:

	import rfc822
	a = rfc822.AddrlistClass('(Comment stuff) "Quoted
name"@somewhere.com')
	a.getaddrlist()

The correct result is:

	[('Comment stuff', '"Quoted name"@somewhere.com')]

Noted that name=value is allowed in addition to name: value.

Also added a short circuit for the regression test suite since CVS
insisted on putting this file in the main branch. :(

- Don't call Py_FatalError() when initialization fails.

- Fix bogus use of return value from PyRun_String().

- Fix misc. compiler errors on some platforms.

These document CGIHTTPServer, SimpleHTTPServer, and linecache.

		       empty list instead of None.  (Guido's request.)

<mzadka@geocities.com>.

Make references to the posix module hyperlinks.

*missing* content-type at the outer level of a POST defaults to
urlencoded.  In all other circumstances, the default is read_singe().

in the string module.

Add a bunch of new tests for extended startswith/endswith arguments.

EditorWindow.py:

+ Added get_tabwidth & set_tabwidth "virtual text" methods, that get/set the
widget's view of what a tab means.

+ Moved TK_TABWIDTH_DEFAULT here from AutoIndent.

+ Renamed Mark's get_selection_index to get_selection_indices (sorry, Mark,
but the name was plain wrong <wink>).

FormatParagraph.py:  renamed use of get_selection_index.

AutoIndent.py:

+ Moved TK_TABWIDTH_DEFAULT to EditorWindow.

+ Rewrote set_indentation_params to use new VTW get/set_tabwidth methods.

+ Changed smart_backspace_event to delete whitespace back to closest
preceding virtual tab stop or real character (note that this may require
inserting characters if backspacing over a tab!).

+ Nuked almost references to the selection tag, in favor of using
get_selection_indices.  The sole exception is in set_region, for which no
"set_selection" abstraction has yet been agreed upon.

+ Had too much fun using the spiffy new features of the format-paragraph
cmd.

- Revise abstract based on Guido's comments from way back.
- Point out that LaTeX is a structured system & we're using it that
  way.
- Add a small section on marking up code examples.