capabilities of the Pentium FPU, so what should have been (and were on
Windows) exact results got fuzzy.  Then it turns out test_support.fcmp()
isn't tolerant of tiny errors when *one* of the comparands is 0, but
test_complex's old check_close_real() is.  Rather than fix gcc <wink>,
easier to revert this test and revisit after the release.

existed when I wrote this test.

has more bits than the numerator than can be counted in a C int (yes,
that's unlikely, and no, I'm not adding a test case with a 2 gigabit
long).

This closes SF bug #459256.

(Steve, can you add this to the PyUnit repository as well?)

This closes SF bug #458785.

Fixes bug reported as SF bug #453728.

less hostile to newbie use at the interactive prompt.
This is in response to SF bug #458654.

Add refcount information for other recently documented APIs.

statement that this is a proof-of-concept meant for people to
experiment with, nothing more.

in Python.

headers.  This is the final checkin for SF bug #458768.

Python/C style guide.

(1) Allow multiple -u options to extend each other (and the initial
    value of use_resources passed into regrtest.main()).

(2) When a test is run stand-alone (not via regrtest.py), needed
    resources are always granted.

This closes SF bug #458771.

Based on a patch by Skip Montanaro, this closes SF bug #458885.

This covers regression on SF bug #458860.

This closes SF bug #458860.

support.

added all the telnet options known to arpa/telnet.h
added all the options registered with IANA as of today
added the possibility for the user to have it's own option negotiation callback

This patch is similar to that proposed by Jeremy. The proposed patch altered
the interface of TestResult such that it would be passed the error
information as a string rather than an exc_info() tuple.

The implemented change leaves the interface untouched so that TestResults
are still passed the tracebacks, but stor them in stringified form for
later reporting.

Notes:
- Custom subclasses of TestResult written by users should be unaffected.
- The existing 'unittestgui.py' will still work with this module after the
  change.
- Support can later be added to pop into the debugger when an error occurs;
  this support should be added to a TestRunner rather than to TestCase itself,
  which this change will enable.

(Jeremy, Fred, Guido: Thanks for all the feedback)

instead.

1. That seeking beyond the end of a file increases the size of a file.
2. That files so extended are magically filled with null bytes.

I find no support for either in the C std, and #2 in particular turns out
not to be true on Win32 (you apparently see whatever trash happened to be
on disk).  Left #1 intact, but changed the test to check only bytes it
explicitly wrote.  Also fiddled the "expected" vs "got" failure reports
to consistently use repr (%r) -- they weren't readable otherwise.

Curious:  the MS docs say stati64 etc are supported even on Win95, but
Win95 doesn't support a filesystem that allows partitions > 2 Gb.

test_largefile:  This was opening its test file in text mode.  I have no
idea how that worked under Win64, but it sure needs binary mode on Win98.
BTW, on Win98 test_largefile runs quickly (under a second).