gzip header.

filename attribute is still accessible as a property that emits a
DeprecationWarning.

Will backport.

Will backport to 2.5.

Fixes #1514451.

Will backport.

(The line has no effect anyway, but is present because it's
customary call the base class __init__).

Fixes #847665. Will backport.

at position 0.

is specified at the top of the file.  Also add a note that Python/Python-ast.c
needs to be committed separately after a change to the AST grammar to capture
the revision number of the change (which is what __version__ is set to).

r53731).

definition.

lib/python/config, on "linux" and "gnu" systems.
Will backport.

Will backport.

mouse and cursor selection in ACWindow implemented; double Tab inserts current
selection and closes ACW (similar to double-click and Return); scroll wheel now
works in ACW.  Added AutoComplete instructions to IDLE Help.

Will backport to 2.5.

Move AC window below input line unless not enough space, then put it above.
Patch: Tal Einat

[ 1362975 ] CodeContext - Improved text indentation
Tal Einat 16Dec06

allow appending to empty files.

Applied patch 1124861.3.patch to solve bug #1124861: Automatically create pipes on Windows, if GetStdHandle fails. Will backport.

   Suggested solution by Christos Georgiou, Bug 791968.
2. Clean up tests, were not failing when they should have been.
4. Remove some camelcase and an unneeded try/except block.

We had several if statements checking the value of a fd. This is unsafe, since valid fds might be zero. We should check for not None instead.

The next step of PEP 352 (for 2.6) causes raising a string exception to trigger
a TypeError.  Trying to catch a string exception raises a DeprecationWarning.
References to string exceptions has been removed from the docs since they are
now just an error.