Merged revisions 53304-53433,53435-53450 via svnmerge from
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  r53304 | vinay.sajip | 2007-01-09 15:50:28 +0100 (Tue, 09 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  Bug #1627575: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".
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  r53305 | vinay.sajip | 2007-01-09 15:51:36 +0100 (Tue, 09 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  Added entry about addition of _open() method to logging.FileHandler.
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  r53306 | vinay.sajip | 2007-01-09 15:54:56 +0100 (Tue, 09 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  Added a docstring
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  r53316 | thomas.heller | 2007-01-09 20:19:33 +0100 (Tue, 09 Jan 2007) | 4 lines

  Verify the sizes of the basic ctypes data types against the struct
  module.

  Will backport to release25-maint.
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  r53340 | gustavo.niemeyer | 2007-01-10 17:13:40 +0100 (Wed, 10 Jan 2007) | 3 lines

  Mention in the int() docstring that a base zero has meaning, as
  stated in http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html as well.
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  r53341 | gustavo.niemeyer | 2007-01-10 17:15:48 +0100 (Wed, 10 Jan 2007) | 2 lines

  Minor change in int() docstring for proper spacing.
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  r53358 | thomas.heller | 2007-01-10 21:12:13 +0100 (Wed, 10 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  Change the ctypes version number to "1.1.0".
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  r53361 | thomas.heller | 2007-01-10 21:51:19 +0100 (Wed, 10 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  Must change the version number in the _ctypes extension as well.
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  r53362 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-01-11 00:12:56 +0100 (Thu, 11 Jan 2007) | 3 lines

  Fix the signature of log_error().  (A subclass that did the right thing
  was getting complaints from pychecker.)
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  r53370 | matthias.klose | 2007-01-11 11:26:31 +0100 (Thu, 11 Jan 2007) | 2 lines

  - Make the documentation match the code and the docstring
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  r53375 | matthias.klose | 2007-01-11 12:44:04 +0100 (Thu, 11 Jan 2007) | 2 lines

  - idle: Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug #299092).
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  r53381 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-01-11 19:22:55 +0100 (Thu, 11 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  SF #1486663 -- Allow keyword args in subclasses of set() and frozenset().
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  r53388 | thomas.heller | 2007-01-11 22:18:56 +0100 (Thu, 11 Jan 2007) | 4 lines

  Fixes for 64-bit Windows: In ctypes.wintypes, correct the definitions
  of HANDLE, WPARAM, LPARAM data types.  Make parameterless foreign
  function calls work.
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  r53390 | thomas.heller | 2007-01-11 22:23:12 +0100 (Thu, 11 Jan 2007) | 2 lines

  Correct the comments: the code is right.
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  r53393 | brett.cannon | 2007-01-12 08:27:52 +0100 (Fri, 12 Jan 2007) | 3 lines

  Fix error where the end of a funcdesc environment was accidentally moved too
  far down.
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  r53397 | anthony.baxter | 2007-01-12 10:35:56 +0100 (Fri, 12 Jan 2007) | 3 lines

  add parsetok.h as a dependency - previously, changing this file doesn't
  cause the right files to be rebuilt.
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  r53401 | thomas.heller | 2007-01-12 21:08:19 +0100 (Fri, 12 Jan 2007) | 3 lines

  Avoid warnings in the test suite because ctypes.wintypes cannot be
  imported on non-windows systems.
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  r53402 | thomas.heller | 2007-01-12 21:17:34 +0100 (Fri, 12 Jan 2007) | 6 lines

  patch #1610795: BSD version of ctypes.util.find_library, by Martin
  Kammerhofer.

  release25-maint backport candidate, but the release manager has to
  decide.
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  r53403 | thomas.heller | 2007-01-12 21:21:53 +0100 (Fri, 12 Jan 2007) | 3 lines

  patch #1610795: BSD version of ctypes.util.find_library, by Martin
  Kammerhofer.
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  r53406 | brett.cannon | 2007-01-13 01:29:49 +0100 (Sat, 13 Jan 2007) | 2 lines

  Deprecate the sets module.
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  r53407 | georg.brandl | 2007-01-13 13:31:51 +0100 (Sat, 13 Jan 2007) | 3 lines

  Fix typo.
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  r53409 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2007-01-13 22:00:08 +0100 (Sat, 13 Jan 2007) | 16 lines

  Bump version number and change copyright year.

  Add new API linux_distribution() which supports reading the full distribution
  name and also knows how to parse LSB-style release files.

  Redirect the old dist() API to the new API (using the short distribution name
  taken from the release file filename).

  Add branch and revision to _sys_version().

  Add work-around for Cygwin to libc_ver().

  Add support for IronPython (thanks for Anthony Baxter) and make
  Jython support more robust.
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  r53410 | neal.norwitz | 2007-01-13 22:22:37 +0100 (Sat, 13 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  Fix grammar in docstrings
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  r53411 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2007-01-13 23:32:21 +0100 (Sat, 13 Jan 2007) | 9 lines

  Add parameter sys_version to _sys_version().

  Change the cache for _sys_version() to take the parameter into account.

  Add support for parsing the IronPython 1.0.1 sys.version value - even
  though it still returns '1.0.0'; the version string no longer includes
  the patch level.
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  r53412 | peter.astrand | 2007-01-13 23:35:35 +0100 (Sat, 13 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  Fix for bug #1634343: allow specifying empty arguments on Windows
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  r53414 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2007-01-13 23:59:36 +0100 (Sat, 13 Jan 2007) | 14 lines

  Add Python implementation to the machine details.

  Pretty-print the Python version used for running PyBench.

  Let the user know when calibration has finished.

  [ 1563844 ] pybench support for IronPython:

  Simplify Unicode version detection.

  Make garbage collection and check interval settings optional if
  the Python implementation doesn't support thess (e.g. IronPython).
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  r53415 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2007-01-14 00:13:54 +0100 (Sun, 14 Jan 2007) | 5 lines

  Use defaults if sys.executable isn't set (e.g. on Jython).

  This change allows running PyBench under Jython.
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  r53416 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2007-01-14 00:15:33 +0100 (Sun, 14 Jan 2007) | 3 lines

  Jython doesn't have sys.setcheckinterval() - ignore it in that case.
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  r53420 | gerhard.haering | 2007-01-14 02:43:50 +0100 (Sun, 14 Jan 2007) | 29 lines

  Merged changes from standalone version 2.3.3. This should probably all be
  merged into the 2.5 maintenance branch:

  - self->statement was not checked while fetching data, which could
    lead to crashes if you used the pysqlite API in unusual ways.
    Closing the cursor and continuing to fetch data was enough.

  - Converters are stored in a converters dictionary. The converter name
    is uppercased first. The old upper-casing algorithm was wrong and
    was replaced by a simple call to the Python string's upper() method
    instead.

  -Applied patch by Glyph Lefkowitz that fixes the problem with
   subsequent SQLITE_SCHEMA errors.

  - Improvement to the row type: rows can now be iterated over and have a keys()
    method. This improves compatibility with both tuple and dict a lot.

  - A bugfix for the subsecond resolution in timestamps.

  - Corrected the way the flags PARSE_DECLTYPES and PARSE_COLNAMES are
    checked for. Now they work as documented.

  - gcc on Linux sucks. It exports all symbols by default in shared
    libraries, so if symbols are not unique it can lead to problems with
    symbol lookup.  pysqlite used to crash under Apache when mod_cache
    was enabled because both modules had the symbol cache_init. I fixed
    this by applying the prefix pysqlite_ almost everywhere. Sigh.
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  r53423 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-01-14 04:46:33 +0100 (Sun, 14 Jan 2007) | 2 lines

  Remove a dependency of this test on $COLUMNS.
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  r53425 | ka-ping.yee | 2007-01-14 05:25:15 +0100 (Sun, 14 Jan 2007) | 3 lines

  Handle old-style instances more gracefully (display documentation on
  the relevant class instead of documentation on <type 'instance'>).
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  r53440 | vinay.sajip | 2007-01-14 22:49:59 +0100 (Sun, 14 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  Added WatchedFileHandler (based on SF patch #1598415)
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  r53441 | vinay.sajip | 2007-01-14 22:50:50 +0100 (Sun, 14 Jan 2007) | 1 line

  Added documentation for WatchedFileHandler (based on SF patch #1598415)
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  r53442 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-01-15 01:02:35 +0100 (Mon, 15 Jan 2007) | 2 lines

  Doc patch matching r53434 (htonl etc. now always take/return positive ints).
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diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index 892e278..dd10334 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -1448,6 +1448,9 @@
 text = TextDoc()
 html = HTMLDoc()
 
+class _OldStyleClass: pass
+_OLD_INSTANCE_TYPE = type(_OldStyleClass())
+
 def resolve(thing, forceload=0):
     """Given an object or a path to an object, get the object and its name."""
     if isinstance(thing, str):
@@ -1468,12 +1471,16 @@
             desc += ' in ' + name[:name.rfind('.')]
         elif module and module is not object:
             desc += ' in module ' + module.__name__
-        if not (inspect.ismodule(object) or
-                inspect.isclass(object) or
-                inspect.isroutine(object) or
-                inspect.isgetsetdescriptor(object) or
-                inspect.ismemberdescriptor(object) or
-                isinstance(object, property)):
+        if type(object) is _OLD_INSTANCE_TYPE:
+            # If the passed object is an instance of an old-style class,
+            # document its available methods instead of its value.
+            object = object.__class__
+        elif not (inspect.ismodule(object) or
+                  inspect.isclass(object) or
+                  inspect.isroutine(object) or
+                  inspect.isgetsetdescriptor(object) or
+                  inspect.ismemberdescriptor(object) or
+                  isinstance(object, property)):
             # If the passed object is a piece of data or an instance,
             # document its available methods instead of its value.
             object = type(object)