I've applied a modified version of Greg Chapman's patch. I've included
the fixes without introducing the reorganization mentioned, for the sake
of stability. Also, the second fix mentioned in the patch don't fix the
mentioned problem anymore, because of the change introduced by patch
#720991 (by Greg as well). The new fix wasn't complicated though, and is
included as well.

As a note. It seems that there are other places that require the
"protection" of LASTMARK_SAVE()/LASTMARK_RESTORE(), and are just waiting
for someone to find how to break them. Particularly, I belive that every
recursion of SRE_MATCH() should be protected by these macros. I won't
do that right now since I'm not completely sure about this, and we don't
have much time for testing until the next release.

  meaningful parameters.

  match objects work.

  to be compliant with previous python versions, by backing out the changes
  made in revision 2.84 which affected this. The bugfix for backtracking is
  still maintained.

particular leaving the traceback object (and everything reachable
from it) alive throughout shutdown.  The patch is mostly from Guido.

Bugfix candidate.

  raising an exception.  This is consistent with calling the
  constructors for the other builtin types -- called without argument
  they all return the false value of that type.  (SF patch #724135)
  Thanks to Alex Martelli.

  which specifies a file where to divert the command's output
  (already supported by the body() method).  (SF patch #720468)
  Thanks to Terry Carroll.

Various rewrites

Will backport to 2.2.

it's a convenience only and give hints on what to do for more
flexibility.

it's a convenience only.  Give an example of what to do for more
flexibility.

fails only in UCS-2 mode, since it tests a non-BMP character.

On cygwin, the setup.py script uses unixccompiler.py for compiling and linking
C extensions. The unixccompiler.py script assumes that executables do not get
special extensions, which makes sense for Unix.  However, on Cygwin,
executables get an .exe extension.

This causes a problem during the configuration step (python setup.py config),
in which some temporary executables may be generated. As unixccompiler.py does
not know about the .exe extension, distutils fails to clean up after itself: it
does not remove _configtest.exe but tries to remove _configtest instead.

The attached patch to unixccompiler.py sets the correct exe_extension for
cygwin by checking if sys.platform is 'cygwin'. With this patch, distutils
cleans up after itself correctly.

Michiel de Hoon
University of Tokyo, Human Genome Center.

  class; closes SF patch #697941
- use em-dashes intead of en-dashes
- section references: use a "tie" between the word "section" and the
  section number, use quotation marks around section titles
- other minor markup corrections/cleanups

internal read() as being a generator but hadn't yet changed it into one.

I'm finding some pretty baffling output, like reprs consisting entirely
of three left parens.  At least this will let us know what type the object
is (it's not str -- there's no quote character in the repr).

New tool combinerefs.py, to combine the two output blocks produced via
PYTHONDUMPREFS.

can't test it.  It's unchanged so why would we test it anyway...

changes stay.

Use isinstance(somestring, basestring) instead of type() as per PEP 8

Closes SF bug #659188, patch #662464.

krb5.h is in it's own directory