Changed status from "beta" to "production"; since logging has been part of the stdlib since 2.3, it should be safe to make this assertion ;-)

strings and removes a possible "U" before passing the mode to the
C library function.

(fixes #1484793).

and several features added, such as speed and geometry control.

Resolves #1484758.

Remove a sentence that says that BaseException inherits from BaseException.
(I guess this is just a copy & paste mistake.)

The PyPI upload material has been moved into the section on PEP314.

copy() method.

  on some OSX installation, but its header file is not.
Will backport to 2.4

the Windows buildbots fail test_tarfile.

the file object in binary mode.

The Windows buildbot slaves shouldn't swap themselves to death
anymore.  However, test_tarfile may still fail because of a
temp directory left behind from a previous failing run.
Windows buildbot owners may need to remove that directory
by hand.

Change __str__() functions to METH_O.
Change WindowsError__str__ to use PyTuple_Pack.

Most of the test_syntax changes are just updating the numbers.

to the Python.app template.

based on the new python.org logo. These are also the first icons that are
"proper" OSX icons.

These icons were created by Jacob Rus.

* Don't use xcodebuild for building PythonLauncher, but use a normal unix
  makefile. This makes it a lot easier to use the same build flags as for the
  rest of python (e.g. make a universal version of python launcher)
* Convert the mac makefile-s to makefile.in-s and use configure to set makefile
  variables instead of forwarding them as command-line arguments
* Add a C version of pythonw, that we you can use '#!/usr/local/bin/pythonw'
* Build IDLE.app using bundlebuilder instead of BuildApplet, that will allow
  easier modification of the bundle contents later on.