manager doesn't always have the alias as the first argument, so things
become functions in stead of methods.

manager. This should allow us the get rid of most of the FSSpecs, only
navigation services remains to be done.

workaround so the (otherwise still broken) IDE can at least quit in the Python 2.2 Jaguar addon install

module.
Jack: I've compared the .app output of the orginal with the new and I
can't find any significant differences. However, bundlebuilder.py
contains its' own command line interface and I think we should use
that instead. I'll have a look to see whether I can patch
Mac/OSX/Makefile.jaguar to this effect.

add globbing support, find modules by name instead of by file.

added details of new IMAP4_stream class; emphasised meaning of data part of command results; added proxyauth command description

Already supported dict() and dict(mapping).
Now supports dict(itemsequence) and
Just van Rossum's new syntax for dict(keywordargs).

Also, added related unittests.

The docs already promise dict-like behavior
so no update is needed there.

long but the double is too big to fit in a long.  Prevent that.  This
closes some recent bug or patch on SF, but SF is down now so I can't
say which.

Bugfix candidate.

interrupted.  A try/finally will do nicely.  Maybe other classes need
this too, but since they manipulate more state it's less clear that
that is always the right thing, and I'm in a hurry.

Backport candidate.

prototypes explicitly.

the --disable-unicode build doesn't complain about an
unused variable.

so the --disable-unicode build doesn't complain about unused variables.

reported by Michael Hudson in
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-November/030299.html

        Previously archive_util.py attempted to spawn an
        external 'zip' program for the zip action, if this fails, an
        attempt to import zipfile.py is made...

        This bites folks who have 'old' or non-conforming zip
        programs on windows platforms.  This change tries the 'zipfile'
        module first, falling back to spawning a zip process if
        the module isn't available.

user, and spell out a x-platform use limitation.

put more in the critical section than absolutely needed, acquire
the mutex before the "try".

more often than it is.  In response to bug:

[ 641808 ] Portability of Modules/_cursesmodule.c

submitted by Nick Mclaren.