to protect us from jokers who put items with non-string keys in
sys.modules.  Reported by Greg Stein.

-sticky option.

function name.  (Vladimir Kushnir by way of Thomas Gellekum.)

blue values instead of tuple

separators later

there's a syntax error.  (In particular, display the correct
filename).  This changes the API: if there's a syntax error, the
function now returns normally after dumping the error to sys.stderr.
I changed Sjoerd's use of string.join(string.split(...)) with
string.replace().

the StripViewer class.

(Reported by Jeff Rush.)

as this is the logical order of dependencies.  Suggested by Jeff Rush.

Patch by Jeff Rush.

Added a debug function to replace 'print' statements.
Ensured that response attached to 'NO' replies is passed back.
added readonly exception.
Rearranged method order into types.
Ensure select returns a meaningful error on 'NO'.
'NO' returns from authenticate and login raise error with last message,
not list.

works and Greg Ward just reported a problem it caused...