where sizeof(long)==8.  This *was* broken on boxes where signed right
shifts didn't sign-extend, but not elsewhere.  Unfortunately, apart
from the Cray T3E I don't know of such a box, and Guido has so far
refused to buy me any Cray machines for home Python testing <wink>.

More immediately interesting would be if someone could please test
this on *any* sizeof(long)==8 box, to make sure I didn't break it.

This was found by Neal Norwitz's PyChecker.

    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/medusa/message/333

It's clear that Medusa should not be checking for an empty buffer
via "buf is ''".  The patch merely changes "is" to "==".  However,
there's a mystery here all the same:  Python attempts to store null
strings uniquely, so it's unclear why "buf is ''" ever returned
false when buf actually was empty.  *Some* string operations produce
non-unique null strings, e.g.

>>> "abc"*0 is "abc"*0
0
>>>

but they're rare, and I don't see any such operations in asynchat.

on c.l.py.

Jeffery Collins pointed out that filterstring decrefs a character object
before it's done using it.  This works by accident today because another
module always happens to have an active reference too at the time.  The
accident doesn't work after his Pippy modifications, and since it *is*
an accident even in the mainline Python, it should work by design there too.
The patch accomplishes that.

Fixes bug #233308 from Travis Oliphant.

This is the accepted portion of patch #402498.

Steve Purcell's documentation, and a lot of it is written based on
using PyUnit and reading the implementation.

There is more to come, but I want to get this check in before I have a
disk crash or anything else bad happens.

have the std test suite exercise the Cookie doctests too.

add a self-test using doctest.  Results:

- The docstring needs to be a raw string because it uses \"...\".

- The oreo example was broken: the Set-Cookie output doesn't add
  quotes around "doublestuff".

- I had to change the example that prints the class of a Cookie.Cookie
  instance to avoid incorporating an arbitrary object address in the
  test output.

Pretty good score for both doctest and the doc string, I'd say!

- Use push() instead of send(), and make these calls in main().

- Sleep a second to give the server thread time to initialize itself.

(How many opre of these will we need? :-( )

got the order backwards in a line (for .find()).

documentation.

.internalSubset attribute based on a clarification from the www-dom
list.

comment it out with an explanation.  This makes it easier for someone
who wants the additional symbols to try re-enabling it for their platform.

McCafferty <christopher.mccafferty@csg.ch>, and a bit of experimentation
with Navigator 4.7.

HTML-as-deployed is evil!

    define COLORS or COLOR_PAIRS until after start_color() is called,
    but they were never added to the curses module.  Fixed by adding
    a wrapper around start_color(), similar to the wrapper around initscr().

    in order to support Objective-C.

on a clarification sent to the www-dom list.

in the previous patch.

This closes (again!) SF patch #410267.

This applies the patch Fred Drake created to fix it.
I'm checking it in since I had to apply the patch anyway in order
to test its behavior on Windows.

<christopher.mccafferty@csg.ch>:

Add javascript: and telnet: to the types of URLs we ignore.

Add support for several additional URL-valued attributes on the BODY,
FRAME, IFRAME, LINK, OBJECT, and SCRIPT elements.

    the __getattr__() handler.

Text.splitText():  Update the length and nodeValue attributes.

alternate name for the same function.

Disable fused-add-mul instructions. They give a nonstandard result for some things that test_coercion complains about. The added performance is probably minimal for Python anyway.

hyperlink.

Fix two English usage errors caught by Jan Wells:  Changed "subsequence"
to "sub-sequence" in two places, and avoid improper use of "hopefully" in
the first paragraph of the "What Now?" chapter.

If the frontmost window is not a Tk window exit the event handling code early. This fixes that using Tk once used to disable cmd-. processing. It may also influence Tk/IDE interaction, I'm not sure.