It is better to be explicit and just allow stop to be None.

* itertools.islice() stop argument did not perform as documented.
* beefed-up test suite

s/isofomat/isoformat/, by Steven Taschuk.

head.

<meta name='description' ...> element in the document head.

to that of Python2.1. Such nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn addresses are just used directly,
not passed to the resolver for a pointless lookup.

Improves clarity and brevity.

eg "pdb>".

sessions (and some cosmetic wording changes).

and test_support.run_classtests() into run_unittest()
and use it wherever possible.

Also don't use "from test.test_support import ...", but
"from test import test_support" in a few spots.

From SF patch #662807.

Remove the last use of veris().

Remove now useless imports and functions.

documentation.  Closes SF bug #723136.

example still doesn't come out quite right: a bug in the formatting
tools

  tools can be fixed; added XXX comment
- general markup fixes

I should also not that my last checkin did stuff that made failures give
more helpful information.

signalling when the TCP server is done.  Should hopefully solve hanging
issues for Solaris 8 & 9.  Solves the apparent hanging issue with OS X.

Closes patch #729988 .

Added test that checks for characters allowed in the query part of URLs.
Backport candidate.

to the Python used to create them (in the #! line). Therefore, when your
Python installation is moved the applets become invalid. As the
binary distribution is installed in a different place than where it was
created we need to fix up the #! lines.

tests and comments.

that was used to start the thread.  This is useful to track down the
source of the problem when there is no traceback, as can happen when a
daemon thread gets to run after Python is finialized (a new kind of
event, somehow this is now possible due to changes in Py_Finalize()).