pointed out some of the problems he had following the instructions,
and I stumbled into the others:  MSVC has changed in several
respects, Python has changed the directories into which it builds
its own Windows outputs, and we grew the unusual scheme of
appending "_d" to the names of debug-mode output files.

This should all work with VC6 + CVS Python now.  Some other Windows
geek please confirm!  And the less you know, the better <0.5 wink>.

Explanations and examples for versions of MSVC before 6, and
versions of Python before 2.0b1, have been removed, because
they're too different and so confuse life.  This last step I OK'ed
with Guido first (indeed, 'twas his idea!).

  "lastgroup" is the name of the last matched capturing group,
  "lastindex" is the index of the same group.  if no group was
  matched, both attributes are set to None.

  the (?P#) feature will be removed in the next relase.

Reported on c.l.py by Kirill Simonov.

  used by the code generator)

- changed max repeat value in engine (to match earlier array fix)

- added experimental "which part matched?" mechanism to sre; see
  http://hem.passagen.se/eff/2000_07_01_bot-archive.htm#416954
  or python-dev for details.

Noted by Rob Hooft <rob@hooft.net>.

   speedup for some tests, including the python tokenizer.

-- added support for an optional charset anchor to the engine
   (currently unused by the code generator).

-- removed workaround for array module bug.

- minor comment touchups in the C module

-- changed 1.6 to 2.0 in the file headers

-- fixed ISALNUM macro for the unicode locale.  this
   solution isn't perfect, but the best I can do with
   Python's current unicode database.

Usage error noted by Grant Griffin <grant.griffin@iowegian.com>.

Usage error noted by Grant Griffin <grant.griffin@iowegian.com>.

to 8-bit strings, using the default encoding.

- distutils: Windows installers are already working

- string methods: .join() seems to be the concensus, so it should probably
  be docommented

- filecmp.py supersedes cmp, cmpcache and dircmp

- winreg is completely new: _winreg is an adaptation of what used to be in
  win32api, and winreg is a Python implementation which adds OO syntax.
  Perhaps you know that, but the text is misleading.

Similar to an old bug in ntpath.py.

splittype():  Always lower-case the URL scheme; these are supposed to be
               normalized according to RFC 1738 anyway.

getatime() returned the mtime instead of the atime.
Similar to an old bug in posixpath.py.

Correct typo that caused a well-formedness failure.

They should all be binary (cvs admin -kv has now been applied).

the bind(), connect(), and connect_ex() methods must be a single
parameter.

Originally part of 1.98, reverted in 1.100.

changes to the bsddb source.

Update all projects so Debug builds use "/Zi" instead of "/ZI", which means everything should still build under MSVC5

NOTE:  All these projects had messed-up line endings (but MSVC didnt mind).  Executing a diff with "--ignore-all-space" will show the specific changes, but I made a complete checkin with correct line endiings as it is the correct thing to do!