Rather than trying to second-guess the various error returns
of a second connect(), use select() to determine whether the
socket becomes writable (which means connected).

Gerrit Holl in email to python-docs.)

  instead of a plain PyObject *.  (SF patch #686601 by Ben Laurie.)

  turned into an absolute pathname, unless it is the empty string.
  (SF patch #664376, by Skip Montanaro.)

[Patch #684398] Rename verbose argument to show-response; don't conditionalize the get_classifiers() call

prior to NT.  EMX has a number of Posix emulation routines, including
geteuid() but lacks chown(), so silently skip trying to actually set
a file ownership when extracting a file from a tar archive.

by the user), as this will cause the least surprises with scripts
brought over from other unixen. Suggested by Kevin Altis.

Don't access tp_descr_{get,set} of a descriptor without checking the
flag bits of the descriptor's type.  While we know that the main type
(the type of the object whose attribute is being accessed) has all the
right flag bits (or else PyObject_Generic{Get,Set}Attr wouldn't be
called), we don't know that for its class attributes!

Will backport to 2.2.

this thing so it doesn't rely on being unnormalized.  (That's the
editorial "I", if anyone's listening <wink>.)

In the Windows installer, continued the endless battle to copy over files
with new one-shot extensions.

was still referencing it will fail.  Also removed some debug cruft
from _reduce_ex.

applets. PackageManager is still built with bundlebuilder itself.

Fixed a bug for applets with their own plist files.

creates the sys.argv emulation wrapper for droplets. Also updates
the plist, if needed, and the includedModules (but this last is untested).

_reconstructor (whose import here is a mystery to me).

checks in his changes to support this in cPickle.c.

if it exists in preference over __reduce__.  Now Tim can go implement this
in cPickle.c.

reasons:  importing module can fail, or the attribute lookup
module.name can fail.  We were giving the same error msg for
both cases, making it needlessly hard to guess what went wrong.
These cases give different error msgs now.