use global __debug__ flag to determine if compiled files will be ".pyc"
or ".pyo".  Tweaked compilation output messages too.

might have been copied, regardless of the 'update' flag.

Made handling OSError in 'mkpath()' more standard.

make 'mkdir()' return list of directories created.

for the 'bdist_dumb' command.  Adapted, with tweakage, from the 'sdist'
command.

in preparation for the 'bdist_dumb' command; these methods remain as
trivial wrappers around the versions in distutils.util.

'has_ext_modules()', 'has_c_libraries()', 'has_modules()', and 'is_pure()'.

  is responsible for installing all Python modules (pure and extensions).
Added 'get_outputs()' in preparation for the 'bdist' command, and
  '_mutate_outputs()' to support 'get_outputs()'.

  in a class attribute 'sub_commands', rather than hard-coded in 'run()'.
  This should make it easier to subclass 'install', and also makes it
  easier to keep 'run()' and the new 'get_outputs()' consistent.
Added 'get_outputs()' in preparation for the 'bdist' command.

methods of Distribution instead of grovelling directly in self.distribution.

Changed signature of 'build_extensions()': no longer takes the extension
  list, but uses 'self.extensions' (just like 'get_outputs()' has to)
Moved call to 'check_extensions_list()' from 'run()' to 'build_extensions()',
  again for consistency with 'get_outputs()'.

A host of improvements in preparation for the 'bdist' command:
  - added 'get_outputs()' method (all the other improvements were to support
    this addition)
  - made 'find_package_modules()' and 'find_modules()' return similar
    values (list of (package, module, module_filename) tuples)
  - factored 'find_all_modules()' out of 'get_source_files()' (needed
    by 'get_outputs()')
  - factored 'get_module_outfile()' out of 'build_module()' (also needed
    by 'get_outputs()')
  - various little tweaks, improvements, comment/doc updates

Also, _tkinter is linked with Tcl 8.3.

running out of the build directory.  This means that it will no longer
try to use an older version of the library when an older version has
been installed.

me half an hour to find why it was still linking with python15.dll!)

This was originally submitted by Martin von Loewis as part of his
Unicode patch; all I did was add special cases for Python int and
float objects and rearrange the object type tests somewhat to speed up
the common cases (string, int, float, tuple, unicode, object).

executive summary:
Instead of typing 'apply(f, args, kwargs)' you can type 'f(*arg, **kwargs)'.
Some file-by-file details follow.

Grammar/Grammar:
    simplify varargslist, replacing '*' '*' with '**'
    add * & ** options to arglist

Include/opcode.h & Lib/dis.py:
    define three new opcodes
        CALL_FUNCTION_VAR
        CALL_FUNCTION_KW
        CALL_FUNCTION_VAR_KW

Python/ceval.c:
    extend TypeError "keyword parameter redefined" message to include
        the name of the offending keyword
    reindent CALL_FUNCTION using four spaces
    add handling of sequences and dictionaries using extend calls
    fix function import_from to use PyErr_Format

This fixes a bunch of socket.connect(host, post) calls.  Note that I
haven't tested all modules -- I don't have enough servers here...

The new filecmp module has an optional argument called use_statcache
which is documented as a true/false value, but used as an tuple index.

This patches replaces the tuple stuff with a good old if- statement,
and also removes a few other tuple pack/unpack constructs (if not
else, this saves a few bytes in the PYC file, and a few microseconds
when using the module ;-).

Updated NetPresenz URL. Still needs update in the light of the new :Mac:Tools:CGI: stuff. Later. (jvr)

The attached patch set includes a workaround to get Python with
Unicode compile on BSDI 4.x (courtesy Thomas Wouters; the cause
is a bug in the BSDI wchar.h header file) and Python interfaces
for the MBCS codec donated by Mark Hammond.

Also included are some minor corrections w/r to the docs of
the new "es" and "es#" parser markers (use PyMem_Free() instead
of free(); thanks to Mark Hammond for finding these).

The unicodedata tests are now in a separate file
(test_unicodedata.py) to avoid problems if the module cannot
be found.

This patch fixes the "search" command in imaplib. The problem
was that a search can take multiple arguments, but as defined,
would only accept one.

I have also made changes to the test code at the end to be less
verbose by default, but to accept a verbosity argument.

self.parser to be None; in that case don't dereference it in
getnames().

8.0.  There really is no excuse, and for who really still wants those,
they can go back to Python 1.5.2.