Both cycle() and chain() were handling exceptions only when switching
input sources.  The patch makes the handle more immediate.

Will backport.

Backported to 2.3.

Backported to 2.3.

(closes SF bug #817742)

(closes SF bug #881707)

Backported to 2.3.

Backported to 2.3.

Backported to 2.3.

Backported to 2.3.

[Bug #810879] Document that copyfile() can fail if you don't have permissions; also, fix a double negative.

- Neatened the braces in PyList_New().
- Made sure "indexerr" was initialized to NULL.
- Factored if blocks in PyList_Append().
- Made sure "allocated" is initialized in list_init().

Re-use list object bodies.  Saves calls to malloc() and free() for
faster list instantiation and deallocation.

- describe __getnewargs__()
(closes SF bug #873246)

are enough subtleties to pickling that we don't want misunderstanding
to spread because we don't provide all the information twice.  The
reference to the pickle module for information will have to suffice;
at least only one portion of the docs will be out of date.  ;-(

constants
(closes SF bug #837929)

mixer docs; trim \platform{}, add \versionadded{}.

with the elimination of 'U' in modsupport.c on 2000/04/28 (replaced
with 'u' and 'u#' per fdrake's comments).

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-September/037922.html

for background.  It appears I forgot to ever submit a bug report or patch.

grow and shrink on the right.

Fixes http://bugs.debian.org/229885
Will backport to 2.3.