by providing other modules access to globals set up in PyShell.main()

Define True and False (if necessary) so this module can be copied as-is
to other projects (eg. Optik, Docutils) that don't depend on Python 2.3.

follow-up to #621891.

Remove deprecated tempfile usage

Fixes #754447.

M PyShell.py
R boolcheck.py
M run.py

M HISTORY.txt
M NEWS.txt

called.

Added announcement in Misc/NEWS for thread.interrupt_main and mention of
dummy_thread's change.

 Modified Files:
 	run.py
 Removed Files:
 	interruptmodule.c

SF #753617.  Back port candidate (but low priority).

  for SF bug 742860 (the next item).

751998.

from setup.py.

Copying a new-style class that had a reference to itself didn't work.
(The same thing worked fine for old-style classes.)

the object, not the module).

the toplevel package. This already worked for elements, but now for
properties too. Fixes #753925.
- Even better, the toplevel class (such as Finder.Finder) now inherits
the element and property dictionaries of its application class and has
the necessary glue to allow you to say
  f = Finder.Finder()
  f.get(f.name)

The docs were fine but the "int=int" in the function call was both
ugly and confusing.  Moved it inside the body of the function definition.