turn three or more into a single slash. (This is in sync with POSIX
susv2 according to Fredrik.)

corresponding string method. Added tests for this too.

Patch written by Marc-Andre Lemburg. Copyright assigned to Guido van Rossum.

inference rules (e.g. .c.o) is fine.

* Removed func_hash and func_compare, so they can be treated as immutable
  content-less objects (address hash and comparison)
* Added tests to that affect to test_funcattrs (also testing func_code
  is writable)
* Reverse meaning of tests in test_opcodes which checked identical code
  gets identical functions

case, the order of parameters in the output matches the order of the inputs.

   (contributed by Paul Jackson)

parameter may be omitted or None.

the resulting path is empty.

Fixed the thread races.  Function forget_dir was also utterly Unix-specific.

Use test_support.verify() where applicable.

    about the internal initialization of instance objects.  Make the
    dict parameter optional, and allow None as equivalent to omission.

They're named as if public, so I did a Bad Thing by changing
PyMarshal_ReadObjectFromFile() to suck up the remainder of the file in one
gulp:  anyone who counted on that leaving the file pointer merely at the
end of the next object would be screwed.  So restored
PyMarshal_ReadObjectFromFile() to its earlier state, renamed the new greedy
code to PyMarshal_ReadLastObjectFromFile(), and changed Python internals to
call the latter instead.

- Change one last EXE to EXEEXT.

- Cygwin doesn't want CCSHARED flag when bulding the interpreter DLL.

Fix some unclear language in the description of the addrlist member.

Break cycle involving expat parser in close().
Add lex handler support to SAX2 pyexpat

Use nodeName, not tagName in attributes.
Provide get method for dictionary-like objects.
Use DOM exceptions instead of standard exceptions.

and an option is more friendly then manually setting a variable.

SF patch http://sourceforge.net/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=103453&group_id=5470
PyMember_Set of T_CHAR always raises exception.
Unfortunately, this is a use of a C API function that Python itself never makes, so
there's no .py test I can check in to verify this stays fixed.  But the fault in the
code is obvious, and Dave Cole's patch just as obviously fixes it.