This patch changes the string-based exceptions to class-based
exceptions, so that you can fetch the unknown option as an
attribute.  As far as I know, it is backward compatible.

[The new exception class is called GetoptError; the name error is an
alias for compatibility.]

is in the development branch, not the maintenance branch!)

the default value is determined.

Here's a patch that avoids a warning caused by the "const char* pathname"
declaration for _PyImport_GetDynLoadFunc (in dynload_aix). The "aix_load"
function's 1st arg is prototyped as "char *pathname".

This causes * etc. on the command line to be expanded, link on Unix.

Define Py_DEBUG when compiling in debug mode.  (Is that a good idea?)

NOTE: Windows, Mac and OS/2 build procedures must be adapted manually!

This is part of a set of patches by Greg Stein.

This is part of a set of patches by Greg Stein.

This is part of a set of patches by Greg Stein.

This is part of a set of patches by Greg Stein.

from two static tables (one standard, one provided by the platform's
dynload_*.c variant).

This is part of a set of patches by Greg Stein.

This is part of a set of patches by Greg Stein.

(A few nite remain, these will probably disappear soon.)

This is part of a set of patches by Greg Stein.

file per platform (really: per style of Dl API; e.g. all platforms
using dlopen() are grouped together in dynload_shlib.c.).

This is part of a set of patches by Greg Stein.

c_varnames, not c_lnotab.

Support keys that have a Handle as parameter, by using the new GetControlDataHandle and SetControlDataHandle methods.

keys that expect a Handle, and have a ResObj as parameter.

will install these in macfs (if Navigation is available).

dialogs.

calls, callbacks, arguments, etc. Also added docstrings.

get at the result yet, though:-)

(The configure script is regenerated, not from his patch.)

pathconf_names, confstr(), confstr_names, sysconf(), sysconf_names.

strings to integers for the *conf*() functions.

Added code to sort the tables at module initialization.  Three
dictionaries, confstr_names, sysconf_names, and pathconf_names, are
added to the module as well.  These map known configuration setting
names to the numeric value which is used to represent the setting in
the system call.  This code is always called.

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