This patch makes u"\N{x}" a bit less dependent on pure luck...

(I realize that I didn't really test this, because all the tests
succeed, so verify() never raised an AssertionError -- but the test
suite still succeeds, so I'm not too worried.)

    sys.builtin_module_names
Add SSL directories in /usr/contrib/ for FreeBSD

  This patch adds support for Cygwin to util.get_platform(). A Cygwin
  specific case is needed due to the format of Cygwin's uname command,
  which contains '/' characters.

   * Deletes the Panel_NoArgReturnStringFunction() macro, which isn't used
     anymore
   * Adjusts two comments.

probably more useful for the test code than for any applications, but
one never knows...)

keywords.  Cheap approximation to the truth.

implementation details inside the ucnhash module.

also cleaned up the unicode copyright blurb a little; Secret Labs'
internal revision history isn't that interesting...

MSVC project file (as the instructions always recommended doing).

corresponding changes were made to its std test.

change the test to give a clue about *where* it's failing.

preferences.  It is now in config.txt or ~/.idle.

when quoting forbidden characters. There are scripts out there that
break with lower case, therefore I guess %%%X should be used."

I agree, so am fixing this.

    def f(a):
        global a

symbol table for each top-level compilation unit.  The information in
the symbol table allows the elimination of the later optimize() pass;
the bytecode generation emits the correct opcodes.

The current version passes the complete regression test, but may still
contain some bugs.  It's a fairly substantial revision.  The current
code adds an assert() and a test that may lead to a Py_FatalError().
I expect to remove these before 2.1 beta 1.

The symbol table (struct symtable) is described in comments in the
code.

The changes affects the several com_XXX() functions that were used to
emit LOAD_NAME and its ilk.  The primary interface for this bytecode
is now com_addop_varname() which takes a kind and a name, where kind
is one of VAR_LOAD, VAR_STORE, or VAR_DELETE.

There are many other smaller changes:

- The name mangling code is no longer contained in ifdefs.  There are
  two functions that expose the mangling logical: com_mangle() and
  symtable_mangle().

- The com_error() function can accept NULL for its first argument;
  this is useful with is_constant_false() is called during symbol
  table generation.

- The loop index names used by list comprehensions have been changed
  from __1__ to [1], so that they can not be accessed by Python code.

- in com_funcdef(), com_argdefs() is now called before the body of the
  function is compiled.  This provides consistency with com_lambdef()
  and symtable_funcdef().

- Helpers do_pad(), dump(), and DUMP() are added to aid in debugging
  the compiler.

Also fixes two long-standing bugs (present in 2.0):
1. .join() didn't check that the result size fit in an int.
2. string.join(s) when len(s)==1 returned s[0] regardless of s[0]'s
   type; e.g., "".join([3]) returned 3 (overly optimistic optimization).
I resisted a keen temptation to make .join() apply str() automagically.

    to build in a subdirectory.  The additional directory is unfortunately
    redundant when *not* building in a subdirectory, which is why I took
    it out.

for SocketServer.py (inherited by TCPServer)

Luke wrote:

  The socketserver code, with a little bit of tweaking, can be made
  sufficiently general to service "requests" of any kind, not just by sockets.
  The BaseServer class was created, for example, to poll a table in a MYSQL
  database every 2 seconds. each entry in the table can be allocated a
  Handler which deals with the entry.

  With this patch, using BaseServer and ThreadedServer classes, the creation
  of the server that reads and handles MySQL table entries instead of a
  socket was utterly trivial: about 50 lines of python code.

  You may consider this code to be utterly useless [why would anyone else
  want to do anything like this???] - you are entitled to your opinion. if you
  think so, then think of this: have you considered how to cleanly add SSL to
  the TCPSocketServer? What about using shared memory as the
  communications mechanism for a server, instead of sockets? What about
  communication using files?

  The SocketServer code is extremely good every useful. it's just that as it
  stands, it is tied to sockets, which is not as useful.

I heartily approve of this idea.

libraries.

(I have no way to test this, I just trust Donn.)

Support building this as a DLL under Cygwin.

Minor startup speedup: avoid a call to strspn().

not __hash__ raises TypeError.

__cmp__ and __eq__ absent before deciding to do a quickie
based on the object address.  (Tim Peters discovered this.)

tp_compare and tp_richcompare NULL before deciding to do a quickie
based on the object address.  (Tim Peters discovered this.)