directory name with a single dot fails.  The patch skips creating
    directories named os.curdir. (Patch by Bram Moolenaar)

2.3 bugfix candidate.

using specialized splitter for 1 char sep.

about "characters", we assume something about C's char type (which is
an integral type).

bit by checking the value of UCHAR_MAX in Include/Python.h.  There was a
check in Objects/stringobject.c.  Remove that.  (Note that we don't define
UCHAR_MAX if it's not defined as the old test did.)

Previous revision was a fix for a problem by not 2.204 but 2.205.

(Pointy hat goes to perky)

dictionary as the original.  This parallels MvL's change to
Lib/os.py 1.56.

Backport candidate.

Backport candidate.

test__locale: add typical POSIX-style full locale names.
test_locale: use en_US.US-ASCII on FreeBSD.

* in py-checker-run, fall back to read-string if read-shell-command
  (XEmacs-specific) is not available.

* highlight variables would mask builtins as if they were keywords.

- re-wrap resulting long lines

  sorted() becomes a regular function instead of a classmethod.

  sorted() becomes a regular function instead of a classmethod.

  sorted() becomes a regular function instead of a classmethod.

Replace lots of assert_(x == y) with assertEqual(x, y).

The chief benefit of this change is that requests will now use
HTTP/1.1 instead of HTTP/1.0.  Bump the module version number as part
of the change.

There are two possible incompatibilities that we'll need to watch out
for when we get to an alpha release.  We may get a different class of
exceptions out of httplib, and the do_open() method changed its
signature.  The latter is only important if anyone actually subclasses
AbstractHTTPHandler.

machines.

(Spotted by Raymond Hettinger)

SF feature request #801847.
Original patch is written by Sean Reifschneider.

Keep close() methods for backwards compatibility.

Does any call close() explicitly?

"read until end of line ('\n') or EOF" will be treated literally.
Fixes SF bug #860155.

mid 1990.  Remove an untrue XXX comment.