stringobject.c compiles again with --disable-unicode.

Fixes SF bug http://www.python.org/sf/554912

feature request 426539.

Closes patch 552452 and feature request 426539.

feature request 426539.

- Manually generate a routine with funny error semantics.

save-excursion so that when the function is complete, point is
preserved.

NOT a bugfix candidate:  this is a fix to an optimization introduced
in 2.3.

test if 'callable' has not been supplied is to test for None instead of
False.  The previous correction to 'if callable()' was wrong because an unusable
callback would be ignored rather than raising an exception.

Type class unification invalidated the statement:  x.__getitem__[i] is not equivalent to x[i].

Closes SF bug #554644.

- Started on supporting CFPropertyLists.

Add some credits
Fill in a link

Start fleshing out the "Examples" section.

The zipfile module has been in the standard library for some time now.

Clarify explanations of header file search directories.

Closes SF bug #554257.  Not relevant to older releases.

Fixed string and dict conversion, and implemented booleans and numbers (int and float). I think we now have enough CFType support to start on plists and CFpreferences!

Transparent handling of unknown CFType objects still TBD.

pymalloc?

Avoid checks for negative indices and duplicate checks for support of
the sequence protocol.

Updates for 2.2
Remove references to Makefile.pre.in build method

Bugfix candidate (I'll move it over myself).

xreadlines.xreadlines().
This closes SF patch #552804.