Clean up a little; do not create an alias that is only used once, or store
attributes with constant values in an instance.

 error-reporting for the classic compare-expected-output tests.
Curiously, the bug consisted of not simplifying the logic enough!

#424002.

Refactor init_path_from_argv0() and rename to copy_absolute(); add
absolutize() which does the same in-place.

Clean up whitespace (leading tabs -> spaces, delete trailing
spaces/tabs).

depending on the cycle detector code in the library implementation.
This is a *slightly* different patch than SF patch #417795, but takes
the same approach.  (This version avoids calling the __len__() method of
the dict in the remove() functions.)
This closes SF patch #417795.

rigmarole of __reduce__.

fallback for objects that are neither supported by our dispatch table
nor have a __copy__ or __deepcopy__ method.

Changes to _reduce() in copy_reg.py to support reducing objects that
don't have a __dict__ -- copy.copy(complex()) now invokes _reduce().

Add tests for copy.copy() and copy.deepcopy() to test_regrtest.py.

PY_VERSION => "2.2a4+"

For the real document element, make sure the prolog is migrated into
the document element so it isn't left stranded.

Make fixup_trailing_whitespace() whitespace do what was really intended.

Add the *desc environments used in the C API manual to the list of
things that can exist at the paragraph level so they don't get wrapped
in <para>...</para>.

(string.join() lives!)

This fixes SF bug #465447.

if it does not already end with a newline.
This fixes SF bug #463330.

Apply patch from "china@thewrittenword.com" to put the correct
location for ld_so_aix in BLDSHARED.

subclassing list to add the length and item() attributes.

(Migrate to branch, along with new files compiler.tex and asttable.tex.)

Changes made to make it work in the new location.

whether or not a link will be generated will depend on the link database.
Add a couple of explanatory comments for one of the stranger constructs
(giving input an empty name).

This should fix a bug in how time is allocated during exception propogation
(esp. in the presence of finally clauses).

of something ad-hoc.

Fixed a typo in a comment.

used with text as was done here.  Fixed so that the typeset version wraps
the warning text and the HTML version does not create images of the warning
text.

getting displayed, due to a special case here whose purpose I didn't
understand.  So just disabled the doc suppression here.

Another special case here skips the docs when picking apart a method
and finding that the im_func is also in the class __dict__ under
the same name.  That one I understood.  It has a curious consequence,
though, wrt inherited properties:  a static class copies inherited stuff
into the inheriting class's dict, and that affects whether or not this
special case triggers.  The upshoot is that pydoc doesn't show the
function docstrings of getter/setter/deleter functions of inherited
properties in the property section when the class is static, but does
when the class is dynamic (bring up Lib/test/pydocfodder.py under
GUI pydoc to see this).

order of defining class's name.

Python since 1.5 (virtually everything I changed over the last week relies
on "modern" features, particularly nested scopes).

organization.