encoding and decoding, including optional case folding and optional
alternative alphabets.

still far away, but a lot closer than it was.

loops to run (default remains 50,000 if no argument is specified).

   than are specified by the buffer size.  The patch calls .__write()
   to ensure that any full blocks are written out.

  restarted.  IDLEfork Patch 869012 Noam Raphael

Modified Files:
	NEWS.txt run.py

Remove applications of rsplit() and random numbers
Typo fixes; minor tweaks

- rearranged a bit to avoid duplicated information
- provide more complete (and hopefully less confusing) descriptions of
  the return values for most of these functions
  (close SF bug #563298)

closes SF bug #820344

closes SF bug #825810

Improved based on discussions at:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/252177
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=fc7b54f11af6b24e&seekm=bss2so$om$00$1@news.t-online.com

(Contributed by George Yoshida.)

* Speed-up intersection whenever PyDict_Next can be used.

conversion).  Hopefully I've not messed up the formatting.

- rearrange so two small sections become one; this avoids an extra
  page in the HTML format

- add link to the datetime module

  file.xreadlines()

- slightly simplify a couple of examples
- clean up some markup

* Add comment on the future of the sets module.
* Change a variable from "input" to "data" to avoid shadowing a builtin.
* Added possible applications for str.rsplit() and itertools.tee().
* Repaired the example for sorted().
* Cleaned-up the example for operator.itemgetter().

- note the interpreter's -S option