time.sleep(1) sometimes delays for fractionally less than a second
resulting in too short of an interval for C's time.time() function
to create a distinct seed.

the PyInt_AsLong function, and this returns a long, the value is first
retrieved with PyLong_AsLong, but afterwards overwritten by a call to
PyInt_AS_LONG.

Fixes SF #690253.

called something else!).  I can't imagine removing the prototype is
going to hurt, but put it back if *you* can.

Use level=3 (i.e. log.WARN) for the warnings about failed imports.
(Hmm...  Why is that code in an "if 1: ..."?  What's the else branch
for?)

levels.  (Previously, -vvv would be the same as -q!)

Added an extra blank line before "What's New in Python 2.2 final?".

Rather than trying to second-guess the various error returns
of a second connect(), use select() to determine whether the
socket becomes writable (which means connected).

Gerrit Holl in email to python-docs.)

  instead of a plain PyObject *.  (SF patch #686601 by Ben Laurie.)

  turned into an absolute pathname, unless it is the empty string.
  (SF patch #664376, by Skip Montanaro.)

[Patch #684398] Rename verbose argument to show-response; don't conditionalize the get_classifiers() call

prior to NT.  EMX has a number of Posix emulation routines, including
geteuid() but lacks chown(), so silently skip trying to actually set
a file ownership when extracting a file from a tar archive.

by the user), as this will cause the least surprises with scripts
brought over from other unixen. Suggested by Kevin Altis.

Don't access tp_descr_{get,set} of a descriptor without checking the
flag bits of the descriptor's type.  While we know that the main type
(the type of the object whose attribute is being accessed) has all the
right flag bits (or else PyObject_Generic{Get,Set}Attr wouldn't be
called), we don't know that for its class attributes!

Will backport to 2.2.

this thing so it doesn't rely on being unnormalized.  (That's the
editorial "I", if anyone's listening <wink>.)

In the Windows installer, continued the endless battle to copy over files
with new one-shot extensions.

was still referencing it will fail.  Also removed some debug cruft
from _reduce_ex.