correctly and thus roundtrip-safe.

Some minor cleanups of the code.

Added tests for the roundtrip-safety.

#caused warnings with the VMS C compiler.  (SF bug #442998, in part.)
On a narrow system the current code should never be executed since ch
will always be < 0x10000.

Marc-Andre: you may end up fixing this a different way, since I
believe you have plans to generate \U for surrogate pairs.  I'll leave
that to you.

already present in the "String literals" section, including comments on
the "u" prefix and the additional escape sequences used for Unicode.

This relates to SF bug #442526.

Fix showstopper SF bug #442983: use of site.addsitedir() was broken
because it references the global dirs_in_sys_path which is deleted.
The fix avoids deleting that global.

(My email through python.org or digicool.com is non-functional at the
moment; use gvanrossum@home.com to reach me.)

This closes SF bug #443059.

parts Inno has no good answer for (read the comments at the top of the
script).

Modified by Fred Drake.
This closes SF patch #440827.

This closes SF patch #440826.

Part of SF patch #434992.

This is part of SF patch #424992.

This is part of SF patch #434992.

This is part of SF patch #434992.

This is part of SF patch #434992.

This closes SF patch #440153.

the directory separator, as required by the format specification.

This closes SF bug #440693.

expected-output file.

This is a Windows-specific glitch that's really due to that, e.g.,
ntpath.join("c:", "/abc") returned "/abc" instead of "c:/abc".  Made
join smarter.
Bugfix candidate.

This closes SF bug #440351.  It should not be moved to Python 2.1.1.

parsed correctly.  Now they are.

doesn't work -- it actually prevents the extensions from being built
properly.  So I'm changing the "sharedmods" target to what I presume
it was before:
	PYTHONPATH= ./$(PYTHON) $(srcdir)/setup.py build

Add new low-level API for interpreter introspection
Bump version number.

SF patch #436376.

back-out 1.215 of configure.in and 1.34 of Makefile.pre.in
Check for -Kpthread compiler support, and use this as the sole option
for MT if available.

bug #442627.