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.

Closes patch #785752 and bug #726911.

Should be backported after correctness and such has been verified by Fred.

Remove fallback code that tries to read marshal data from a results
file, since this module never writes marshal data.

Add a note showing which argument is the accumulator.

* Py_BuildValue("(OOO)",a,b,c)  -->  PyTuple_Pack(3,a,b,c)
* Py_BuildValue("()",a)         -->  PyTuple_New(0)
* Py_BuildValue("O", a)         -->  Py_INCREF(a)

useful for rapidly building argument tuples without having to invoke the
more sophisticated machinery of Py_BuildValue().

This should not be backported to 2.3, as it might break backwards
compatibility.

Make urlparse RFC 2396 compliant.
Closes bug #450225 (thanks Michael Stone).

Add Michael Stone for helping with bug #450225 (making urlparse RFC 2396
compliant).

(Contributed by Johannes Gijsbers.)

PyArg_ParseTuple() where possible.

Altered to return a PyBool instead of a PyInt.

Backport candidate.

classes

module existed in the current directory.  Fix this.  Backport
candidate (I presume).

change the version number is no longer required.

Instead, a make_versioninfo.exe is compiled, which spits out an
include file for python_nt.rc.

Will backport to 2.3

Backport candidate.

make obj.__contains__() returns True/False instead of 1/0.

Backported to 2.3

Not sure if this fix is great, but it's probably a small improvement.

Adopt Jeremy Fincher's suggested function name, "any", instead of "some".

* Added C coded getrandbits(k) method that runs in linear time.
* Call the new method from randrange() for ranges >= 2**53.
* Adds a warning for generators not defining getrandbits() whenever they
  have a call to randrange() with too large of a population.

SGI compiler and GCC seem to need this.