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.

The builtin eval() function now accepts any mapping for the locals argument.
Time sensitive steps guarded by PyDict_CheckExact() to keep from slowing
down the normal case.  My timings so no measurable impact.

char *`` instead of just ``char *``.  Also added the mentioning of "const" in
some places where it was left out even when the signature already stated the
fact.

Closes bug #980925.

test_repr() fails with id() values that appear negative

instead of ValueError.

Add a note about error handling schemes added by PEP 293.

[ 924301 ] A leak case with cmd.py & readline & exception

by ensuring that the readline completion function is always reset
even in the case of an exception being raised.  As a bonus, this
makes the documentation for pre & postloop accurate again.

* Format an example so that the identation is more obvious.
* Add a section on the decimal module to the Brief Tour Part II.

on the marshalling characteristics of infinities.

end-of-options marker wasn't recognized

(I ran this through texcheck, but don't have LaTeX installed on this machine and therefore haven't
verified that the changes are accepted by LaTeX.)

[Bug #912845] urllib2 only checks for a 200 return code, but 206 is also legal if a Range: header was supplied.
(Actually, should the first 'if' statement be modified to allow any 2xx status code?)

entailed editing the urlparse module.

location) in its addressing.

Closes bug #981299.

PyArg_ParseTuple() to ``const char *`` to match the recommendation made in
section 1.3 and to support better coding habits.

Section 1.8 ("Keyword Parameters for Extension Functions") and it's coding
example were not touched since it is stems from an accredited source and thus
did not want to step on anyone's toes.

Now runs without exception on WinME/98.

Based on a patch supplied by Ian Ward <ian@arevco.ca> on the pybsddb
mailing list 2004-03-26.

Make DBTxn objects automatically call abort() in their destructor if
not yet finalized and raise a RuntimeWarning to that effect.