ctime, gmtime and localtime optional, defaulting to 'the current time' in
all cases. Adjust docs, add news item. Also convert all argument-handling to
METH_VARARGS. Closes SF patch #103265.

this is not hard to explain!

Closes SF bug #129345.

created by Andrew's setup.py script, *if* we're actually running from
the build directory.  (The test for that: whether the sys.path[-1]
ends in "/Modules".)

This has one disadvantage: it imports a fair amount of code from the
distutils package, just in order to be able to calculate the correct
pathname.  See if I care. :-)

New option "-q" to leave .pyc/.pyo alone.

tests for the first time -- like the Unix Makefile does.  This
avoids not catching problems in the bytecode generator and/or bytecode
marshalling.

fix set PYTHONPATH to something starting with $(srcdir)/build/lib....
The use of $(srcdir) was wrong here, it should be ./build/lib...

Please check it against your nearest pop server --
mine doesn't support APOP (I checked I'm getting the same error
message, though)

added a test of a coredump that would occur when del'ing
func_defaults (put here for convenience).

del'ing func.func_dict.  I took the opportunity to also clean up some
other nits with the code, namely core dumps when del'ing func_defaults
and KeyError instead of AttributeError when del'ing a non-existant
function attribute.

Specifically,

func_memberlist: Move func_dict and __dict__ into here instead of
special casing them in the setattro and getattro methods.  I don't
remember why I took them out of here before I first uploaded the PEP
232 patch. :/

func_getattro(): No need to special case __dict__/func_dict since
their now in the func_memberlist and PyMember_Get() should Do The
Right Thing (i.e. transforms NULL values into Py_None).

func_setattro(): Document the intended behavior of del'ing or setting
to None one of the special func_* attributes.  I.e.:

    func_code - can only be set to a code object.  It can't be del'd
    or set to None.

    func_defaults - can be del'd.  Can only be set to None or a tuple.

    func_dict - can be del'd.  Can only be set to None or a
    dictionary.

Fix core dumps and incorrect exceptions as described above.  Also, if
we're del'ing an arbitrary function attribute but func_dict is NULL,
don't create func_dict before discovering that we'll get an
AttributeError anyway.

This patch makes u"\N{x}" a bit less dependent on pure luck...

(I realize that I didn't really test this, because all the tests
succeed, so verify() never raised an AssertionError -- but the test
suite still succeeds, so I'm not too worried.)

    sys.builtin_module_names
Add SSL directories in /usr/contrib/ for FreeBSD

  This patch adds support for Cygwin to util.get_platform(). A Cygwin
  specific case is needed due to the format of Cygwin's uname command,
  which contains '/' characters.

   * Deletes the Panel_NoArgReturnStringFunction() macro, which isn't used
     anymore
   * Adjusts two comments.

probably more useful for the test code than for any applications, but
one never knows...)

keywords.  Cheap approximation to the truth.

implementation details inside the ucnhash module.

also cleaned up the unicode copyright blurb a little; Secret Labs'
internal revision history isn't that interesting...

MSVC project file (as the instructions always recommended doing).

corresponding changes were made to its std test.

change the test to give a clue about *where* it's failing.

preferences.  It is now in config.txt or ~/.idle.

when quoting forbidden characters. There are scripts out there that
break with lower case, therefore I guess %%%X should be used."

I agree, so am fixing this.

    def f(a):
        global a

symbol table for each top-level compilation unit.  The information in
the symbol table allows the elimination of the later optimize() pass;
the bytecode generation emits the correct opcodes.

The current version passes the complete regression test, but may still
contain some bugs.  It's a fairly substantial revision.  The current
code adds an assert() and a test that may lead to a Py_FatalError().
I expect to remove these before 2.1 beta 1.

The symbol table (struct symtable) is described in comments in the
code.

The changes affects the several com_XXX() functions that were used to
emit LOAD_NAME and its ilk.  The primary interface for this bytecode
is now com_addop_varname() which takes a kind and a name, where kind
is one of VAR_LOAD, VAR_STORE, or VAR_DELETE.

There are many other smaller changes:

- The name mangling code is no longer contained in ifdefs.  There are
  two functions that expose the mangling logical: com_mangle() and
  symtable_mangle().

- The com_error() function can accept NULL for its first argument;
  this is useful with is_constant_false() is called during symbol
  table generation.

- The loop index names used by list comprehensions have been changed
  from __1__ to [1], so that they can not be accessed by Python code.

- in com_funcdef(), com_argdefs() is now called before the body of the
  function is compiled.  This provides consistency with com_lambdef()
  and symtable_funcdef().

- Helpers do_pad(), dump(), and DUMP() are added to aid in debugging
  the compiler.