[Part of patch #648322] Delete the poll2() function, which uses a 'poll' extension module that was once part of Medusa.  Contributed by Kjetil Jacobsen

  of the dispatcher object break.  e.g. if you close() the object, it
  tries to remove itself from the default map, not from the map the
  dispatcher was created with.

  The patch, from Stephane Ninin, records the map as an attribute of
  the dispatcher instance.

2.3 bugfix candidate.

This closes SF bug #827260.

Even if a new dict is generated for locals, it is stored in
f->f_locals.

The patch was tweaked slightly.  It's get a different mechanism for
generating the cnonce which uses /dev/urandom when possible to
generate less-easily-guessed random input.

Also rearrange the imports so that they are alphabetical and
duplicates are eliminated.

Add a few XXX comments about things left undone and things that could
be improved.

- start cleaning up the markup for consistency
- comment out the reference to a MS KnowledgeBase article that doesn't
  seem to be present at msdn.microsoft.com; hopefully someone can
  point out an alternate source for the relevant information

generator.  See SF bug #818861.

iterator where it probably shouldn't have.
Closes SF bug #818861.

This avoids having to modify the Expat sources in any way starting
with Expat 1.95.7.

rather than showing weird numbers like 8.4e+03 usec.

(From SF patch #810751)

to handle situations like ``if (foo) Py_RETURN_NONE else ...``.

order to prevent any unexpected surprises from someone using them in a
conditional without using curly braces (e.g., ``if (foo) Py_RETURN_TRUE``.

the specified value.  All three Py_INCREF the singleton and then return it.

- skip building HTML documentation if it is not available.
- Removal of patches, which can't be referenced from a build
directly from the tar-file.
- Using the RPM tmp directory macro for the buildroot location.
- Ensuring that the clean directive doesn't accidentally
delete the users root directory or another directory.
- --enable-unicode=ucs4 in configure line.
Backported to 2.3.

rename LOCAL_GLOBAL to PARAM_GLOBAL.

Backported to 2.3.

dir_created -> directory_created

  key provides C support for the decorate-sort-undecorate pattern.
  reverse provide a stable sort of the list with the comparisions reversed.

* Amended the docs to guarantee sort stability.