Fix type of the self parameter to some string object methods.

This closes patch #102670.

- Use new Error class (subclass of RuntimeError so is backward
  compatible) which is raised when RuntimeError used to be raised.
- Report original attribute name in error messages instead of name
  mangled with namespace URL.

SAX1 code to SAX2, based on bug #123695.

coverage to ensure bug #124324 does not re-surface.

This closes bug #124324.

accepts. Clarify exception messages for isinstance() and
issubclass().  Closes bug #124106.

Added an extraexportsymbols option, to allow (you guessed it:-) extra export symbols to be specified.

Fixed definition of _cmp.

protocols. Closes bug #119822.

getsockaddrarg when the address is not a tuple.

buffer" replaced by "string or read-only character buffer".

I suggested to Guido that %u be deprecated (it seems useless in Python to me).

Improved version coming soon to a Source Forge near you!

Complete with docos and tests.
OKed by Guido.

notification message.

this is slightly easier to read than the list environment that had been
used.

of return tuples.  The bare \item took advantage of an implementation
detail when formatting in LaTeX, and was just wrong when generating HTML.
It also broke the XML conversion scripts, since there was no enclosing
list-like environment to contain them.

Python equivalent actually equivalent to the C code.  Also, in the C code,
place the "goto" statements on a line by themselves for better visibility
of statements that affect control flow.

This closes bug #123398.

also test join method of 8-bit strings.

Also changed the test() function to (1) compare the types of the
expected and actual result, and (2) in verbose mode, print the repr()
of the output.

and the implementation docs for xml.dom.minidom.

is now separated from the supplied standard implementation.  Not all
interfaces are documented yet, but the structure is better set up to do
so.

There is still a lot to do here, but the shape of the documentation is
coming into line.

This closes bug #123730.