not as descriptive as what Barry suggests, but this also catches the
(in my opinion important) case where some other C code besides apply()
constructs a kwdict that doesn't have the right format.  All the other
possibilities of getting it wrong (non-dict, wrong keywords etc) are
already caught so this makes sense to check here.

Now supports the full range of intended formats (tar, ztar, gztar, zip).
"-f" no longer a short option for "--formats" -- conflicts with new
  global option "--force"!

on the manifest file syntax.

keep whatever gethostname() returns.  After a suggestion by Doug Wyatt.

information accessible to Python.

When run as a script, just dumps the information back out in the data
format, with functions in sorted order and a blank line between
different functions.

Still need to apply the information somehow.

Fixed up a few of his ??? comments.

more than one window argument.

(XXX perhaps a bit too verbose; in particular it is sensitive to
all the doc strings.)

module, which is tested by test_binhex.py.

reformatted.)

- Illegal padding is now ignored.  (Recommendation by GvR.)

- Padding no longer removes characters from data string (resulting in
lost data/strings with negative lengths).

- Illegal characters outside the ASCII range are now ignored, instead
of possibly being remapped to a valid character.

Renamed it and adapted a comment and an error message.

before it reveals the needed definitions in sys/statvfs.h.

_PyString_Resize() with a negative size.

At import time, getpass will be bound to the appropriate
platform-specific function.  If the platform's echo-disabler is not
available, default_getpass, which prints the warning, will be used

didn't properly handle the hex numbers returned.

same permissions as the old file, plugging a security hole.
(Not using exactly the suggested bugfix.)

<paul@prescod.net>.

supported.  Pointed out by Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>.

If os.fork() doesn't exist, raise SystemError with an explanation at
the top of the module.  Added a note to the module docstring.

messages for specific changes.

docstring info for readfp().

long_pow().

object is DECREFed too early.

I found the following patch helpful in tracking down a bug in some
code.  I had appended time, the module, instead of time.time().  Not
sure if it is generally true that printing the repr of the object is
good, but I expect that most unpicklable things will have fairly
information and concise reprs (like files or sockets or modules).

exception if code <> errno.EINVAL.  Jeremy this should fix your
problem.

colon, the first character of the value is lost.

NULL.  In that case, return NULL rather than dumping core.

This fixes PR#91, submitted by Lele Gaifax.

'%(' was found in first position (found by Fred Drake).

Withdraw the change that Fred just checked in -- it was a poorly
documented feature, not a bug, to ignore I/O errors in read().

The new docstring explains the reason for the feature:
"""
this is designed so that you can specifiy a list of potential
configuration file locations (e.g. current directory, user's home
directory, systemwide directory), and all existing configuration files
in the list will be read.
"""

Also add a lower-level function, readfp(), which takes an open file
object (and optionally a filename).

XXX There are some other problems with this module, but I don't have
time to dig into these; in particular, there are complaints that the
%(name)s substitution from the [DEFAULTS] section doesn't work
correctly.