long_format can reuse a scratch area for its repeated divisions (instead
of malloc/free for every digit produced); speeds str(long)/repr(long).

this module slightly more resiliant in the face of XHTML input, or just
colons in attribute names.

copy the Idle help.txt file.

Ref SF Python Patch 422471

"Make copy, cut and paste events case insensitive.  Reported by Patrick
K. O'Brien on idle-dev. (Should other bindings follow suit?)" --GvR

"Move the action of loading the configuration to the IdleConf module
rather than the idle.py script.  This has advantages and
disadvantages; the biggest advantage being that we can more easily
have an alternative main program."  --GvR

"Quick update to the extension mechanism (extend.py is gone, long live
config.txt)" --GvR

"Refactored, with some future plans in mind. This now uses the new
gotofileline() method defined in FileList.py"  --GvR

"Amazing.  A very subtle change in policy in descr-branch actually
found a bug here.  Here's the deal: Class PyShell derives from class
OutputWindow.  Method PyShell.close()
wants to invoke its parent method, but because PyShell long ago was
inherited from class PyShellEditorWindow, it invokes
PyShelEditorWindow.close(self).  Now, class PyShellEditorWindow itself
derives from class OutputWindow, and inherits the close() method from
there without overriding it.  Under the old rules,
PyShellEditorWindow.close would return an unbound method restricted to
the class that defined the implementation of close(), which was
OutputWindow.close.  Under the new rules, the unbound method is
restricted to the class whose method was requested, that is
PyShellEditorWindow, and this was correctly trapped as an error." --GvR

"Taught IDLE's autoident parser that "yield" is a keyword that begins a
stmt.  Along w/ the preceding change to keyword.py, making all this
work w/ a future-stmt just looks harder and harder." --tim_one

(From Rel 1.8: "Hack to make this still work with Python 1.5.2.  ;-( "
--fdrake)

"Move the action of loading the configuration to the IdleConf module
rather than the idle.py script.  This has advantages and
disadvantages; the biggest advantage being that we can more easily
have an alternative main program." --GvR

"Delete goodname() method, which is unused. Add gotofileline(), a
convenience method which I intend to use in a
variant. Rename test() to _test()."  --GvR

This was an interesting merge. The join completely missed removing
goodname(), which was adjacent, but outside of, a small conflict.
I only caught it by comparing the 1.1.3.2/1.1.3.3 diff.  CVS ain't
infallible.

"Remove legacy support for the BrowserControl module; the webbrowser
module has been included since Python 2.0, and that is the preferred
interface." --fdrake

special character bite us again.  ;-(

This fixes SF bug #440911.

longer part of this chapter.

Minor change to match the style guide.

style guide can use a little clarification, and present some minor
specific markup.

Make a few adjustments to conform to the style guide.

Make the reference to the python-docs email address a hyperlink; we want to
encourage responses to the plea for help!

Copied py-cvs rev 1.2 changed file to idlefork MAIN

Copied py-cvs 1.2 changed file to idlefork MAIN

Merged the following py-cvs revs without conflict:
1.29 Reduce copyright text output at startup
1.30 Delay setting sys.args until Tkinter is fully initialized
1.31 Whitespace normalization
1.32 Turn syntax warning into error when interactive
1.33 Fix warning initialization bug

Note that module is extensively modified wrt py-cvs

Allow [] after a parameter name. We currently take this to be the same as * in front, which isn't 100% correct but good enough.

Fixed the mis-guessed parameters and added support for a few optional parameter types. There's a good chance that this is usable now (but there's no test code yet).

First stab at an interface to the Multi Language Text Editor. It compiles and imports, but that's about all. Apple didn't put const in front of their input-only by-reference args, so that needs fixing first.

Fix autoindent bug and deflect Unicode from text.get()