There is a silly bug in the fall-back dumbdbm.py database package in
  the Python 1.5.2 standard distro. This bug causes any changes to an
  existing item to generate a new key, even when the key already
  exists.  After many updates, the .dir file used by dumbdbm grows to
  a huge size, and can cause filesystem problems.

added excplicit node * parameter to termvalid argument in
validate_two_chain_ops of parsermodule.c (as proposed by fred)

an attribute value was not escaped, you could get two syntax errors:
one about a missing semicolon and one about an unknown entity.  Now
you get only one about a bogus ampersand.

conditionally in the code.

(cf. the rest of the headers in the distribution)

  (write, read, ...), based on feedback from GvR.

- added tuple-swapping code to popen2.py

- fixed some runaway indentation in posixmodule.c

  checked for the wrong exception.  my fault.  sorry.
  (first reported by Alex Coventry)

variable.  This crushes another memory leak.  Slight rewrite
included.

font-locking.  This complets the merge with Mailman's version.

  (the PYTHONHOMEHELP define)

- ANSI-fication
  (patch #100794 by Peter Schneider-Kamp)

  (patch #100805 by Peter Schneider-Kamp)

uses the BrowserControl module.

BrowserControl is not removed to allow IDLE to be distributed separately
and still be used with Python 1.5.2.

  windows.

- added optional mode argument to popen2/popen3
  for unix; if the second argument is an integer,
  it's assumed to be the buffer size.

- changed nt.popen2/popen3/popen4 return values
  to match the popen2 module (stdout first, not
  stdin).

  for the moment, this argument must be left out or set
  to -1 (only the default bufsize is supported, that is)

  function is overridden by a python version which accepts
  *either* a string (old behaviour) or a locale tuple.

- renamed a few methods (for consistency):

        get_locale => getlocale
        get_default_locale => getdefaultlocale
        set_to_default => resetlocale (!)

- the _locale implementation module can now implement
  an optional _getdefaultlocale function.  if that function
  isn't available, a POSIX-based approach is used (checking
  LANG and other environment variables, as usual).

(patch #100765)

more information.

mailbox.py: Convert to 4-space indents.

  (patch #100784 by Peter Schneider-Kamp)

  (patch #100770 by Peter Schneider-Kamp)

Mention the ANSIfication of the source.

  by Bill Tutt.

  note: to run this on Windows 95/98, you need to have the
  w9xpopen.exe helper in the same directory as the python DLL.

The actual test for it is only commented out in configure.in, so it can
be re-enabled if we ever run across the need for it again.