Document addition of webbrowser.py
Mention the ANSIfication of the source.
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changes, the difference is only 10\%. These improvements were
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contributed by Yakov Markovitch.
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Python 2.0's source now uses only ANSI C prototypes, so compiling Python now
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requires an ANSI C compiler, and can no longer be done using a compiler that
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only supports K\&R C.
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\section{Module changes}
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\item{\module{UserString}:} A base class useful for deriving objects that behave like strings.
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\item{\module{webbrowser}:} A module that provides a platform independent
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way to launch a web browser on a specific URL. For each platform, various
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browsers are tried in a specific order. The user can alter which browser
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is launched by setting the \var{BROWSER} environment variable.
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(Originally inspired by Eric S. Raymond's patch to \module{urllib}
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which added similar functionality, but
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the final module comes from code originally
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implemented by Fred Drake as \file{Tools/idle/BrowserControl.py},
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and adapted for the standard library by Fred.)
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\item{\module{winreg} and \module{_winreg}:} An interface to the
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Windows registry. \module{_winreg} is an adaptation of functions that
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have been part of PythonWin since 1995, but has now been added to the core
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