When mwh added extended slicing, strings and unicode became mappings.
Thus, dict was set which prevented an error when doing:
	newstr = 'format without a percent' % string_value

This fix raises an exception again when there are no formats
and % with a string value.

contains options, drop them to get the major/minor content type.
Modified from the supplied patch to support more whitespace variation.
Closes SF patch #613605.

Armin Rigo's Draconian but effective fix for

SF bug 453523: list.sort crasher

slightly fiddled to catch more cases of list mutation.  The dreaded
internal "immutable list type" is gone!  OTOH, if you look at a list
*while* it's being sorted now, it will appear to be empty.  Better
than a core dump.

Closes SF bug #635656.

Remove an XXX item: I'm not going to write a section on the email package
    at this point

Used for random sampling without replacement.

PyNumber_Int, because now PyNumber_Int might return a long,
and PyInt_AsLong can handle that, whereas PyInt_AS_LONG can't.

This closes SF bug #629989.

This changes sys.version under Microsoft builds to include the MS compiler
version number (_MSC_VER).  Since VC 6 and VC 7 are apparently
incompatible, and both can be installed on a single box, distutils needs
some way to figure out which version of MSVC a given Python was compiled
under.

As also suggested by MvL, got rid of #ifdef'ery for the defunct _M_ALPHA
target.

Bugfix candidate?  Hard to say.  As far as I'm concerned, VC 7 wasn't
a supported platform in the 2.2 line.  If somebody thinks it should be,
they can do the work.

Fixes #636431.

  to it.
- Allow for symlinks in the applet template.

  IDLE (it was a fatal error before)
- Shuffled a few things around to facilitate the experimental building
  of MacPython for Jaguar's pre-installed python.

binary-vs-text-mode screwups.

idea what.  Added liberal XXX explanations for the next guy.

figure out what the code was doing.  The fixes were a combination of
closing open files before deletion, opening files in binary mode, and
plain skipping things that can't work on Windows (BaseTest.decompress
uses a process gimmick that doesn't exist on Windows, and, even if it
did, assumes a "bunzip2" executable is on PATH).

failing.

CAUTION:  The Python test still has many failures, but I'm out of time
for this now (already took much longer than hoped to get this far).
The base bz2 library does pass its own tests (see next).

CAUTION:  People building on Windows have to download and build tne
bz2 compression libraries now.  See PCbuild\readme.txt for complete
instructions.

bz2 tests to pass on Windows; most are still failing.

_PyString_Resize calls.