longer.  Pointed out by Alex Martelli.

Use isinstance() instead of comparing types directly, to enable
subclasses of str and unicode to be used as patterns.
Blessed by /F.

mode.  Note that the only restriction on the csvfile passed to writer
objects is that it have a write method.

Clarify parameter name.

this in SF patch #732174.

elsewhere (lines between columns).

(which is not to say it's right), so re-enable it.

Documenting Python and Installing Python Modules still have problems
when converting to GNU info, so we'll continue to leave them out for
now.

Some of this is still pretty iffy.

because it was still looking in the ossaudiodev module namespace for
this symbol.

As the symbol has already been rebound as a global, use that instead.

scope of the _XOPEN_SOURCE and _POSIX_C_SOURCE symbols, including:
- getloadavg()
- typedefs for u_int, u_long, u_char, u_short, ushort & uint

These are now all defined under the control of a __BSD_VISIBLE symbol.

The lack of the typedefs causes several extension modules to build
incorrectly or not at all, and is the cause of failures reported for
test_socket and test_tempfile on this platform
(see python-dev: 29/6/03, pieterb@gewis.nl, "Running tests on freebsd5")

This change does not appear to be needed in the 2.2 branch.

implementation, so remove this decoy (it break formatting of the GNU
info version of the docs).

name was giving problems with some tar implementations.

Tk 8.4 may return different values than 8.3.  This fix should handle
either version.

  version of plistlib.py (r1.2)

- use isinstance instead of flaky file-detection code

mostly for convenience and to aid debugging.

  closes SF bug #764003
- fix markup for consistency

Backport candidate

on Windows.

Bugfix candidate.

Don't run any tests if there is no ssl support.

(Contributed by Gerritt Holl)

* Remove the last mentions of string exceptions
* Reference a third-party repository of programs
* Minor clarification of comp.lang.py posting volumes

Flesh out docs to better explain time.strptime (closes bug #697990).

Pass the proper variable when the user supplies a directory.
Will backport.

Don't check expanduser('~') if the home directory == the root directory
(ie, we are running as root).

defering to the encodings package.
As described in [ 763111 ] mbcs encoding should skip encodings package