within repeats of alternatives. The only change to the original
patch was to convert the tests to the new test_re.py file.

This patch fixes cases like:

>>> re.match('((a)|b)*', 'abc').groups()
('b', '')

Which is wrong (it's impossible to match the empty string),
and incompatible with other regex systems, like the following
examples show:

% perl -e '"abc" =~ /^((a)|b)*/; print "$1 $2\n";'
b a

% echo "abc" | sed -r -e "s/^((a)|b)*/\1 \2|/"
b a|c

recursion limit for certain setups of FreeBSD and OS/2.

   [#727759] get bzip2 to build on Solaris 8 (old bzip library)

Bugfix candidate.

"import test.autotest", temp_imp failed because the import lock was
still held at the test's end (the test assumed it wouldn't be), and
then a RuntimeError got raised at the end of the entire suite run because
test_imp cleared the import lock as a side effect of trying to test that
the import lock wasn't held (but a legitimate import is in progress,
so the lock should be held, and the import machinery complained when it
found that the lock was unexpectedly cleareed).

Also removed the unittest scaffolding.  It didn't buy anything here, and
the test was raising regrtest's TestFailed instead of using the unittest
failure-reporting mechanisms.

711019.

original.  New files are written using the eol convention of the
platform, given by os.linesep.  All files are read and written in
binary mode.

	NEWS.txt idlever.py

This is a modified form of SF patch #718027 (mostly markup changes).

 Modified Files:
	NEWS.txt CREDITS.txt INSTALL.txt setup.cfg

- lots of general cleanup

in the last revison

(SF patch #545480).

literally from inet_pton.

to migrate.

os.walk() generator.

This makes the test pass on Windows again (and on other platforms
that don't have these).

mode.

XXX I'm not convinced that this is the right solution -- arguably,
on Windows, the _fileobject class should honor the mode argument
and do newline translation.  But it's never done that so I think
there's no urgent need to fix this today.

due to using a single module-level namespace where multiple namespaces
were used before.

There *really* need to be tests for the sniffer stuff.  This could
have been avoided.

Skip, please review, and add sniffer tests!

should go in test_urllibnet.py .

Still need to write tests for _urlopener usage and urlretrieve.