*this* set of patches is Ka-Ping's final sweep:
The attached patches update the standard library so that all modules
have docstrings beginning with one-line summaries.
A new docstring was added to formatter. The docstring for os.py
was updated to mention nt, os2, ce in addition to posix, dos, mac.
1. Comments at the beginning of the module, before
functions, and before classes have been turned
into docstrings.
2. Tabs are normalized to four spaces.
Also, removed the "remove" function from dircmp.py, which reimplements
list.remove() (it must have been very old).
I'll clean that up later. Also corrected a mistake introduced by the
previous reformatting: an 'else' belonging to a 'for' was accidentally
reindented to belong to the 'if' inside the 'for'. Note that the
module uses inconsistent indentation -- most code is indented with 8
spaces, but some of the reformatted code uses 4 spaces. I'll fix this
later in the promised cleanup pass.
big-endian machines. This is done by directing the struct module's pack
and unpack methods to treat the data always in bin endian format.
This has been tested on irix (big endian) and solaris x86 (little endian)
but not yet on the mac.
Jeremy Hylton
Guido van Rossum
Roger E. Masse
Jack Jansen