Added information on using non-Microsoft compilers on Windows.

[Minor edits for markup consistency. --FLD]

some fairly recent versions have an anaemic selection of terminal-control
symbols.

This closes SF bug #405567.

test_dl, test___all__, test_fork1, and test_longexp.  All these either
take way too long with Insure or crash it.

Update nested scope section.

site.  These now seem (slightly) more reliable, and easier to work with
since update-docs.sh no longer needs to be installed ahead of time on
my account at SF.

documentation.

Fix a few small markup nits.

(There are too many initspam() functions; they need to be renamed
post-beta.)

*desc environments).

on how PyErr_NewException() behaves in that case.

Clarify why an owned reference is kept in an extension module's
variable that refers to the result of PyErr_NewException(); one reader
thought that was a leak.

Clean up some tabs and simplify some markup.

file instead of using inputfilename.mo

implied.

Enable FSpResourceFileAlreadyOpen only for Carbon. This is not strictly correct: OS9 InterfaceLib has it, but enabling it will make Python refuse to run on 8.6 and earlier.

    not doing the \label{foo} --> foo.html transformation (--numeric was
    specified on the command line), still look to see if there is an
    "About this document..." node and copy that to "about.html", since the
    page footers use that as the target.

warnings.

slightly more brief, and more like the message that an extension will not
be built because the built copy is up to date.

  It should use the normal CC referenced compiler as ObjC is integrated
  directly into gcc and enabled through the use of the -ObjC flag.

  UNIX style fork/execve/wait are not fully compatible with thread
  support on BeOS.  For Python, that means neither fork() from import
  nor import from a fork work reliably. os._execvpe() does the latter,
  importing tempfile to set up a tantalizing target for hackers. This
  patch replaces both the tempfile name generation and the exec that
  uses it, in case we're on BeOS. Need this for
  setup:distutils:execvp(); symptoms are random crashes and internal
  BeOS error messages about th name, in case we're on BeOS. It's an
  issue because setup.py + distutils calls os.execvp(); symptoms are
  random crashes during setup.py, and internal BeOS error messages
  about thread IDs.

these can be missing on some (all?) Irix and Tru64 versions.

Protect the CRTSCTS value with a cast; this can be a larger value on
Solaris/SPARC.

This should fix SF tracker items #405092, #405350, and #405355.

order.

SF patch #404564, Gregor Hoffleit.

    as long as the filename also doesn't end in a suffix that indicates
    a binary file (according to the flags in imp.get_suffixes()).

Shrink try...except clauses and replace some of them with explicit checks.