Windows GDI directly and thus does not need a DISPLAY environment variable.

Thanks Jason Tishler.

Improve signal handling, especially when using threads, by forcing an early
re-execution of PyEval_EvalFrame() "periodic" code when things_to_do is not
cleared by Py_MakePendingCalls().

M Misc/NEWS
M Python/ceval.c

(http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC41).

Also check whether onerror has actually been called so this test will
fail on assertion instead of on trying to chmod a non-existent file.

a generator expression instead of a listcomp.

Not a backport candidate (genexps are new in 2.4).

Clarify that the example assumes no links are present; the point of the
example is to illustrate a need for topdown=False, not to wrestle with
platform-dependent link convolutions.

Also spell os.path.join() out in full, instead of using a shortcut import.
The bug reporter was confused by that too, and it's clearer this way.

Bugfix candidate; but I don't intend to backport it.

and its usage in PyLocale_strcoll().

Clarify the documentation on this.

Thanks to Andreas Degert for pointing this out.

of the test possiblities for testGetServBy().

stuck subprocess MainThread because only the SocketThread was exiting.

M NEWS.txt
M idlever.py
M run.py

Last pass to fill in contributor names; remove stray 'contributed by' from the incompatible changes section; remove some XXX comments

Removed a section that is out of date after type/class unification.
While there was still some validity, the paragraph offered more
confusion that insight.

Make a minor clarification between "written" and "displayed".

In test_args_string, remove the tempfile before assertEqual.

work with core dumps because it avoids calling any Python API routines.  The
latter prints all the local variable values as well as the stack frames but
won't work with core dumps because it relies on _PyObject_Dump to print
variables.

button) caused IDLE to fail on restart (no new keyset was created in
config-keys.cfg).  Also true for Theme/highlights.  Python Bug 1064535.

button) caused IDLE to fail on restart (no new keyset was created in
config-keys.cfg).  Also true for Theme/highlights.  Python Bug 1064535.

M configDialog.py

attribute. Fixes SF bug #1065456.

Repair typo in example.

(no href attribute)

when an exception was raised while running w/o the subprocess.  Python Bug 1063840

M NEWS.txt
M PyShell.py

so that this is harder to forget to do for development of new styles

__getitem__() methods:  compute only the new spellings needed to satisfy
the given indexing object.  This is purely an optimization (it should
have no effect on visible semantics).

regrtest.py: skip rgbimg and imageop as they are not built on 64-bit systems.
_tkinter.c: replace %.8x with %p for printing pointers.
setup.py: add lib64 into the library directories.

- add directory information for the "What's New" document

doesn't look right in HTML