in _winreg.c.

cookielib.LWPCookieJar and .MozillaCookieJar are documented to raise
cookielib.LoadError on attempt to load an invalid cookies file, but
raise IOError instead.  Compromise by having LoadError subclass IOError.

Fred approved just checking it in; he may make further fixes.

The change shrinks the 'Generic OS' and other OS chapters, which had become
something of a dumping ground for random modules.  It differs from the
last version of the patch: 1) I've added introductions for the new chapters (still missing a few -- search for 'intro')
2) a few modules have been rearranged slightly from the version in the patch

Fix the definition of BUILD in the VC project settings.

use of $(srcdir) in Makefile.pre.in so builds outside the source dir still
work.

Most of these can be backported.

Subversion revision number.

First, in an svn export, there will be no .svn directory, so use an in-file
$Revision$ keyword string with the keyword chrome stripped off.

Also, use $(srcdir) in the Makefile.pre.in to handle the case where Python is
build outside the source tree.

added refcount information for PyObject_Call

Norwitz)

This code generated a C assertion:
        assert 1, ([s for s in x] +
                   [s for s in x])
        pass

assert was completely broken, it needed to use the proper block.
compiler_use_block() is now no longer used, so remove it.

Needs backport.

Fix _sys_version() so it works with the new buildno, not sure if it is correct.  test_platform passes

Fix some 64-bit issues due to mismatch format characters w/actual data types

Don't double check for NULLs and don't initialize if not necessary.
No functional changes.