macostools.copy() now has an optional forcetype flag, which sets the filetype. This is used by various tools to set the type to APPL when copying interpreter template files (Atmp filetype).

Re-try the file copy once if it fails. This works around an obscure and non-reproducibe bug in GUSI.

and clarity.

Add a footnote to the information on the possibility of shadowing builtins
with locals & module globals.

Web browsers tried to wrap lines in bad ways, so we avoid the problem by
putting fewer words on the page.

the right directory (which actually exists).

Remove premature use of negative indexes in string operation examples;
negative indexes have not been explained at that point, and the use of
negative indexes are not necessary for the examples.

SyntaxError.

Always has the lineno and filename of the source text.

into Makefile.pre.in; the configure script will only determine the basename
of the file.

This fixes installation of a Python built using C++, reported by Greg
Wilson.

Makefile: LIBOBJS incorrect".

module; do not attempt to insert the API object into the module dict
if there was an error creating it.

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.