correctly (should be assigned using STORE_GLOBAL opcode).  This was done by
having the system table differentiate between explict and implicit globals.

#3986 replacing string and types call (like in the Py3k branch), and put exec_msg call at the right place

not be used again (this requires Tcl/Tk 8.3.1), also fix a memory
leak in Tkapp_Call when calling from a thread different than the one that
created the Tcl interpreter.

from a thread different than the one that created the Tcl interpreter.

the only user of this is Lib/distutils/tests/test_build_ext.py (in order
to find the source for xxmodule.c).  I'm not sure if other platforms
need similar tweaks, I'm not brave enough to attempt it without being
able to test.

hacks.  The new code is based on issue #2472 posted by Antoine Pitrou.  I
did some further cleanups of the pyassem code and optimized the block
ordering pass.

Fix a number of Win32ErrorTests error cases.  chmod wasn't being tested.  'access' never raises an error.

tuple. Patch by Ross Light.

source directory.  Mainly use 'srcdir' rather than os.getcwd() or
'.'.

Since "srcdir" should now be defined on all platforms, use it to
find the module source.

directory other than the source directory, simplify the test code in
test_sysconfig.py.

the source.  Also, define 'srcdir' on non-posix platforms.

issue 4804:  Provide checks for the format string of strftime, and for the "mode" string of fopen on Windows.  These strings are user provided from python and so we can avoid invoking the C runtime invalid parameter handler by first checking that they are valid.