special cases.  test_pkg works again on Windows.

d:/whatever instead of /whatever.  While I'm afraid changing isabs()
to be *consistent* with this would break lots of code, it makes
best sense for join() to do it this way.  Thanks to Alex Martelli for
pushing back on this one!

list.

Present the URLs at the bottom in a consistent manner, conforming to the
style guide.

Remove the lone use of "e.g.", which the style guide does not allow.

It's guaranteed now, assuming the platform modf() works correctly.

surrogates for Unicode code points outside range(0x10000) on narrow
Python builds.

Code by Evan Simpson.

to the current Python interpreter (ie. the one used for
building/installation), even (especially!) if "/usr/bin/env" appears in
the #! line.

Rationale: installing scripts with "#!/usr/bin/env python" is asking for
trouble, because
  1) it might pick the wrong interpreter (not the one used to
     build/install the script)
  2) it doesn't work on all platforms (try it on IRIX 5, or on Linux
     with command-line options for python)
  3) "env" might not be in /usr/bin

do it back in copy_file() (not at module level).

wide builds.

and fixes bug #438786.

manuals for more information.  This is being added to make it easier to
find the documentation for the distutils code.

snprintf.

Remove declaration of h_errno, since it is supposedly declared in netdb.h.
Changes proposed by itojun.

and include an example where the MULTILINE flag makes a real difference.

This closes SF bug #441600.

"less".
Patch contributed by Alex Convertry.
This closes SF patch #443551.

and relax the type of the argument list from tuple to sequence.

This closes SF patch #443788.

This is part of SF patch #442788.

Slightly re-word discussion of SystemExit and fork().
This is part of SF patch #443788.

This is part of SF patch #443788.

and PYTHONPATH).

Heavily modified so this doesn't break on Windows.
This closes SF patch #441175.

fault in sys.displayhook.

Please check this in on the 2.2a1 branch (or whatever is necessary
to get it working next release)