Ensure that all the default timers are called as functions, not an
expensive method wrapper around a variety of different functions.

Agressively avoid dictionary lookups.

Modify the dispatch scheme (Profile.trace_dispatch_*(), where * is not
'call', 'exception' or 'return') so that the callables dispatched to
are simple functions and not bound methods -- this reduces the number
of layers of Python call machinery that gets touched.

Remove a couple of duplicate imports from the "if __name__ == ..."
section.

This closes SF patch #430948.

with the addition of the euro character.
Also added a few EDBDIC aliases.

use faster code for base64.encodestring (courtesy of Mr. Tim Peters)
and for base64.decodestring (courtesy of Anthony Baxter)

Makefile and used by the setup.py script.  Ignore it in .cvsignore;
remove it in "make clobber".

Add reference to the documentation for the Python documentation markup.

Fixed up a couple of descriptions.

This closes SF bug #430627.

Suggested by the comments in SF bug #430627.

Also protect against multiple inclusion.

(Just a change to a comment)

the availability of nested scoping in Python 2.1 and 2.2.

config.txt).

*** This is a bugfix-release candidate (for 2.1.1 and 2.0.1)! ***

frequently used, and in particular this allows to drop the last
remaining obvious time-waster in the crucial lookdict() and
lookdict_string() functions.  Other changes consist mostly of changing
"i < ma_size" to "i <= ma_mask" everywhere.

  - actually return a result
  - Compare with tag.localName in getElementsByTagNameNSHelper

be possible to provoke unbounded recursion now, but leaving that to someone
else to provoke and repair.
Bugfix candidate -- although this is getting harder to backstitch, and the
cases it's protecting against are mondo contrived.

This code is likely to get even hairier to squash core dumps due to
mutating comparisons, and it's hard enough to follow without that.

In particular, the affect on existing list content was not sufficiently
explained.

This closes SF bug #429554.

Bugfix candidate.

converting to string.
Critical bugfix candidate -- if you take this seriously <wink>.

directives, which is the role of CPPFLAGS.  Closes SF patch #414991.

true reason for allocating the tuple before checking the dict size.

code, less memory.  Tests have uncovered no drawbacks.  Christian and
Vladimir are the other two people who have burned many brain cells on the
dict code in recent years, and they like the approach too, so I'm checking
it in without further ado.

This closes SF bug #429059.

fixing the reference to Thread.getDeamon() (should be isDaemon()).

This closes SF bug #429070.

in release builds.  Suggested by Martin v. Loewis.

I'm half tempted to macroize PyErr_Occurred too, as the whole thing could
collapse to just
     _PyThreadState_Current->curexc_type