cmd.py uses raw_input(); eats SIGCLD:

  I discovered a rather nasty side effect of the standard cmd.py
  library today. If it's sitting inside raw_input(), any SIGCLDs that
  get sent to your application get silently eaten and ignored. I'm
  assuming that this is something that readline is thoughtfully doing
  for me.

  This patch adds an instance attr that allows the user to select to
  not use raw_input(), but instead use sys.stdin.readline()

[Changed slightly to catch EOFError only for raw_input().]

must now initialize the extra field used by the weak-ref machinery to
NULL themselves, to avoid having to require PyObject_INIT() to check
if the type supports weak references and do it there.  This causes less
work to be done for all objects (the type object does not need to be
consulted to check for the Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_WEAKREFS bit).

tracked as soon as it is clear; this can decrease the number of roots for
the cycle detector sooner rather than later in applications which hold on
to weak references beyond the time of the invalidation.

instance objects without calling the constructor.  This is the same as
the new.instance() function.

CNRI release in a corner of the basement of a government building on a
planet circling Aldebaran.)

instead.

extension object.  Also included an example showing exactly what needs to
be done and nothing else.

This closes SF bug #228591.

strings/patterns.

- take locale into account for word boundary anchors (#410271)
- restored 2.0's *? behaviour (#233283, #408936 and others)
- speed up re.sub/re.subn

Retrieve relevant information at construction time, as it may be lost
when the exception is printed.

linefeeds into carriagereturn-linefeeds (which is apparently what IRIX
does.) Also add some comments, an extra test and reorganize it a bit.

about these packages:

- distutils

- xml

Moshe for noticing!

that's all that's needed.

changed accordingly.

import *.  Mark the offending stmt rather than the function def line.

functions and import */exec.

   with 1.5.2

    along with options to print them.
Add a finalize_options() method to Distribution to do final processing
    on the platform and keyword attributes
Add DistributionMetadata.write_pkg_info() method to write a PKG-INFO file
    into the release tree.

If a module has a future statement enabling nested scopes, they are
also enable for the exec statement and the functions compile() and
execfile() if they occur in the module.

If Python is run with the -i option, which enters interactive mode
after executing a script, and the script it runs enables nested
scopes, they are also enabled in interactive mode.

XXX The use of -i with -c "from __future__ import nested_scopes" is
not supported.  What's the point?

To support these changes, many function variants have been added to
pythonrun.c.  All the variants names end with Flags and they take an
extra PyCompilerFlags * argument.  It is possible that this complexity
will be eliminated in a future version of the interpreter in which
nested scopes are not optional.

Add PyEval_GetNestedScopes() which returns a non-zero value if the
code for the current interpreter frame has CO_NESTED defined.

like the one I just fixed to come back and haunt us.

to configure).

- Add CONFIG_ARGS variable and use it to re-run configure rather than
  using config.status.  This prevents an infinite loop if configure
  dies while re-configuring.

This fixes SF bug #410146 (python 2.1b shelve is broken).

This makes verbose-mode output easier to dig thru, and removes an accidental
dependence on the order of dict.items() (made visible by recent changes to
dictobject.c).

supporting cyclic garbage collection.  (This is not all of it, but I'm
taking a break!)

Also fixed some markup nits.