the checkin.

Windows (XP at least ;).  Test in this order: echo, daytime, domain.

* Add a test case that would have caught it.

  for lists of mixed types.
* Test that sort works.

* Make ConversionSyntax signals get trapped by default.

* Added a recipe section.

* Make capitals default part of DefaultContext

This serves to made the context representation more useful (the names in
match the names out).

Removed the link to ReXX.  That document did not shed add anything to
information already in the spec.

Further tighten the public API to improve usability:

* Emax and Emin are set through Context().  Their defaults are set in the
  DefaultContext, so there is no need to expose DEFAULT_MAX_EXPONENT
  and DEFAULT_MIN_EXPONENT.

* The string functions isnan() and isinfinity() were only used internal to
  the module and were not among the test cases.  External use cases are
  served by the Decimal constructor.  So, made these private.

and format the warning similarly to an exception for both that check and for
warnings raised in the subprocess.

M NEWS.txt
M Pyshell.py
M ScriptBinding.py
M run.py

* delete temporary globals immediately after use
* move a global into a class variable
* Rename BasicDefaultContext and ExtendedDefaultContext
  to BasicContext and ExtendedContext.

* Change the default precision to 28 (to match VB's decimal type).

Refactored RotatingFileHandler to create a base class  for rotating handlers. Added TimedRotatingFileHandler.

Added error checking to log() to check that level is an integer, and raise a TypeError if not (as long as raiseExceptions is set).
Minor documentation corrections.

Moved example section up to just after the section on Logger objects, and changed it to use the new basicConfig() API

* Added test for pickling contexts
* Renamed ExceptionList to Signals (to match wording in the spec)
* Simplified Context constructor by allowing flags=None to automatically
  generate a zeroed-out flags dictionary.
* inlined _convertString() which was used only once
* _rounding_decision is private, so excluded its contants from __all__.
* added an XXX comment with concerns about subclassing signals results in
  a deviation from the spec (maybe important, maybe not).
* Taught the test_suite to determine its own directory (modeled after code
  in regrtest.py).  Enables it to be run when the current directory is not
  the test directory.
* Added a clear_flags() method to the Context API to make it easier to do
  a common operation with flags.
* Fixed the trap_enablers defaults in BasicDefaultContext to match the spec.

during interpreter shutdown instead of masking it with another traceback about
accessing a NoneType when trying to print the exception out in the first place.

Closes bug #754449 (using patch #954922).

to address bugs:
[ 555812 ] installing extension w/o admin rights
[ 555810 ] removing extensions without admin rights

* When enumerating the Python versions found, also remember the HKEY
  they were found under.
* When installing, if Python was installed under HKCU, we will too.
  If Python was installed under HKLM, we check the permissions of
  the current user, and install where we can.
* The "root" key we use is a global variable - all registry setting and
  delete functions use this global rather than a hardcoded HKLM.
* A new entry is written to the install log, indicating the key we used.
  Uninstallation is based on this key.
* 'tempnam()' is used rather than 'tmpnam()' - 'tmpnam' creates a temp
  file on the root of the current drive, and if this is readonly would
  explain the 'freopen' errors occasionally reported. 'tempnam'
  creates the temp file in the %TEMP% directory.

of corner cases.

- weakref.ref and weakref.ReferenceType will become aliases for each
  other

- weakref.ref will be a modern, new-style class with proper __new__
  and __init__ methods

- weakref.WeakValueDictionary will have a lighter memory footprint,
  using a new weakref.ref subclass to associate the key with the
  value, allowing us to have only a single object of overhead for each
  dictionary entry (currently, there are 3 objects of overhead per
  entry: a weakref to the value, a weakref to the dictionary, and a
  function object used as a weakref callback; the weakref to the
  dictionary could be avoided without this change)

- a new macro, PyWeakref_CheckRefExact(), will be added

- PyWeakref_CheckRef() will check for subclasses of weakref.ref

This closes SF patch #983019.

table' of the dll, to make sure that the dll really was build for the
correct Python version.  It does this by looking for an entry
'pythonXY.dll' (X.Y is the Python version number).

The code now checks the size of the dll's import table before reading
entries from it.  Before this patch, the code crashed trying to read
the import table when the size was zero (as in Win2k's wmi.dll, for
example).

Look for imports of 'pythonXY_d.dll' in a debug build instead of
'pythonXY.dll'.

Fixes SF 951851: Crash when reading "import table" of certain windows dlls.

Already backported to the 2.3 branch.

Patch from Mark Hammond.
Recompiled binary.

Already packported to the 2.3 branch.