The interpreters built are now called PythonInterpreterClassic and PythonInterpreterCarbon. The fullbuild script takes care of copying either of these to PythonInterpreter.

Added modules _testcapi, _weakref, _symtable.

mechanism to support self-modifying modules.

run first.  Indirectly due to Skip adding check_all("pty") to test___all__:
that caused the expected ImportError due to pty.py trying to import the
non-existent FCNTL to get handled by test___all__, leaving a partial
module object for pty in sys.modules, which caused the later import of
pty via test_pty to succeed.  Then test_tpy died with an AttributeError,
due to trying to access attributes of pty that didn't exist.  regrtest
viewed that as a failure rather than the appropriate "test skipped".
Fixed by deleting partial module objects in test___all__ when test___all__
handles an ImportError.

Make note about difflib and doctest
Bump version number

Bug was introduced by tricks played to make .pyc files executable
via cmdline arg.  Then again, -x worked via a trick to begin with.
If anyone can think of a portable way to test -x, be my guest!

Bit the bullet and added a private GUSISIOUX for Python. This makes the delayconsole and keepopen code neater. Also tells Sioux to behave better with events, and handles cmd-. during print better. The pythonpreferences have also changed due to this.

Bit the bullet and added a private GUSISIOUX for Python. This makes the delayconsole and keepopen code neater. Also tells Sioux to behave better with events, and handles cmd-. during print better. The pythonpreferences have also changed due to this.

reachable from Lib/.

and #103717.

Guido told me to do this <wink>.
Greatly expanded docstrings, and fleshed out with examples.
New std test.
Added new get_close_matches() function for ESR.
Needs docs, but LaTeXification of the module docstring is all it needs.
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create an empty dictionary if it is called without keyword args.  Just
pass NULL.

XXX I had believed that this caused weird errors, but the test suite
runs cleanly.

functinos and cell vars with */** parameters

(Nick Mathewson)

Remove to XXX comments

of nested functions.  Either is allowed in a function if it contains
no defs or lambdas or the defs and lambdas it contains have no free
variables.  If a function is itself nested and has free variables,
either is illegal.

Revise the symtable to use a PySymtableEntryObject, which holds all
the revelent information for a scope, rather than using a bunch of
st_cur_XXX pointers in the symtable struct.  The changes simplify the
internal management of the current symtable scope and of the stack.

Added new C source file: Python/symtable.c.  (Does the Windows build
process need to be updated?)

As part of these changes, the initial _symtable module interface
introduced in 2.1a2 is replaced.  A dictionary of
PySymtableEntryObjects are returned.

hooks to take over the Python import machinery at a very early stage
in the Python startup phase.

If there are still places in the Python interpreter which need to
bypass the __import__ hook, these places must now use
PyImport_ImportModuleEx() instead. So far no other places than in
the import mechanism itself have been identified.