and include an example where the MULTILINE flag makes a real difference.

This closes SF bug #441600.

"less".
Patch contributed by Alex Convertry.
This closes SF patch #443551.

and relax the type of the argument list from tuple to sequence.

This closes SF patch #443788.

This is part of SF patch #442788.

Slightly re-word discussion of SystemExit and fork().
This is part of SF patch #443788.

This is part of SF patch #443788.

and PYTHONPATH).

Heavily modified so this doesn't break on Windows.
This closes SF patch #441175.

fault in sys.displayhook.

Please check this in on the 2.2a1 branch (or whatever is necessary
to get it working next release)

exception in the execution of bar, ensure that foo.bar exists.
(Previously, while sys.modules['foo.bar'] would exist, foo.bar would
only be created upon successful execution of bar.  This is
inconvenient; some would say wrong. :-)

Note:  This test fails on Windows.  Don't know why yet.

whether h_errno is a macro.

This closes SF patch #440291.

This closes SF patch #440290.

extensions -- but Inno uninstall doesn't restore previous ones (if any),
so that's another step backwards.

New functions getnameinfo, getaddrinfo. New exceptions socket.gaierror,
socket.herror. Various new constants, in particular AF_INET6 and error
codes and parameters for getaddrinfo.
AF_INET6 support in setipaddr, makesockaddr, getsockaddr, getsockaddrlen,
gethost_common, PySocket_gethostbyaddr.

inet_pton/ntop, convert htons argument to u_short.

+ test_quopri.py relied on significant trailing spaces.  Fixed.
+ test_dircache.py (still) doesn't work on Windows (directory mtime on
  Windows doesn't work like it does on Unix).

Added information on the return values of PyArg_ParseTuple() and
PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords().

Moved the PyArg_Parse*(), Py_BuildValue() functions to the Utilities
chapter, added a minimal description and reference to the Extending
manual for Py_BuildValue().

is complete:  recompute _dirs_in_sys_path each time these functions are
entered after module initialization is complete, and reset before
returning to user code.

This closes SF patch #442983.

    distutils.util.get_platform() problems caused by the cruft contained
    in Cygwin's uname -s.

Move computation of sets of characters out of the body of the function that
uses them.

Work-around a font-lock bogosity.

Remove unused import.