descriptions; added availability notes.

Add dlopenflags to PyInterpreterState, and use it in dlopen calls.

These work again.

some of the mostly-general files get changed.

all platforms that offer tempnam().

file management functions that have just been made available on more
platforms.

Used an adapted MethodGenerator to generate methods too for functions that have the object as the second arg after a first CFAllocatorRef arg (which we pass as NULL always anyway).

os.tmpnam().

os.tmpnam() functions to be made available.

This is part of SF patch #435492.

with a table clarifying which releases are GPL-compatible.

Also unified the headings for the various licenses.

tracing interface.  Incomplete, but better to check it in since I've
been including it in my updates.

no reason to pretend the syntax trees we're dealing with are abstract.

"A" out of the internal abbreviations.  For published functions with
"ast" in their names, make alternate offerings using just "st".

Add some casts to quiet warnings from an unspecified non-GCC compiler.

This closes SF patch #436258.

- Change header to 2.2a1.
- Add separator between 2.2 and 2.1 news.

Make the syntax of compound command lines more portable (nmake, CygWin).
These changes are an adaptation of SF patch #429611.

Use the new tools/rewrite.py instead of grep/date/sed to transform
html/index.html.in into html/index.html; this is required for portability.

This is really stupid because it cannot be suppressed or altered using
the warning framework; that's because the warning framework is built
on Python interpreter internals, and the parser generator doesn't have
access to any of those (you cannot use anything of type PyObject * in
the parser).

But it's better than nothing, and implementing a proper check for this
appears to require modifying compile.c in a dozen places, for which I
don't have the stamina today.  I promise we'll do better in 2.2a2.

At least it tells you the filename and line number (unlike the first
hack I considered :-).

This is probably not sufficient by itself for the info generation, and is
being done mostly to keep the style consistent with additional patches
that will be applied to Doc/Makefile.

replacement for @DATE@ from a TeX file containing a \date{...} mark
(such as texinputs/boilerplate.tex).

This will be used to re-write the html/index.html.in file instead of
a combination of grep, date, and sed -- this is more portable to non-Unix
platforms.

This solves part of the problem reported in SF patch #429611, but does
not use the suggested patch.

Correct grammatical error

    building the HTML or text documentation).  There is no need to create
    it for other formats.

Job.build_html():  The builddir parameter is always passed in, so it need
    not be optional.

Credit both Neil and Tim for generators
Fix indentation of a few paragraphs

Footnotes should be added *after* punctuation, not before.
(Yes, this should be merged with the descr branch.  Sorry, Tim!)