* Speed-up str.count() by using memchr() to fly between first char matches.

* Speed-up "x in y" where x has more than one character.

The existing code made excessive calls to the expensive memcmp() function.
The new code uses memchr() to rapidly find a start point for memcmp().
In addition to knowing that the first character is a match, the new code
also checks that the last character is a match.  This significantly reduces
the incidence of false starts (saving memcmp() calls and making quadratic
behavior less likely).

Improves the timings on:
    python -m timeit -r7 -s"x='a'*1000" "'ab' in x"
    python -m timeit -r7 -s"x='a'*1000" "'bc' in x"

Once this code has proven itself, then string_find_internal() should refer
to it rather than running its own version.  Also, something similar may
apply to unicode objects.

newline.

Thanks to Robert Dick <dickrp@ece.northwestern.edu> for reporting this bug
and submitting a patch.

Adjust doc(object) to display useful documentation for plain values (e.g.
help([]) now shows the methods on the list instead of just printing "[]").

(This change has been tested interactively, by generating docs for the
standard library, and by running the module documentation webserver.)

and UserString.MutableString.__delitem__.

Will backport to 2.4.

[ 1124295 ] Function's __name__ no longer accessible in restricted mode

[ 1124295 ] Function's __name__ no longer accessible in restricted mode

which I introduced with a bit of mindless copy-paste when making
__name__ writable.  You can't assign to __name__ in restricted mode,
which I'm going to pretend was intentional :)

Closes bug #1124278.

defined.

_some_ user-defined class instance.  That it was also an exception isn't
interesting, but does interfere with Michael Hudson's new-style exception
patch.  This just changes the doctest example, to use an instance of a
non-exception class.

broke the "raise SystemExit(46)" case when doing new-style exceptions,
but I'd much rather have found out here than in test_tempfile (growl).

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X).

9.

Applies patch #1095802.  Thanks Jack Jansen.

(closes SF bug #1115989)

sanity checks on tzname if HAVE_TZNAME defined.

Closes bug #1096244.  Thanks Gregory Bond.

2.344).

dateTime.iso8601 elements still unmarshal into xmlrpclib.DateTime objects

var == None and var != None
with
var is None and var is not None

and type(var) == int
with
instanceof(var, int)

...as recomended in PEP 8 [1].