bits-499 released with these changes:

• Support GRUB commands implemented in Python

• Provide a pydoc command

• Include pydoc's data directory, so pydoc works on keywords and topics, not just Python modules and functions

• Add more Python modules from the standard library:

  • atexit (functions not actually invoked yet, though)
  • formatter
  • getopt
  • logging (but not logging.config or logging.handlers, which want network sockets)

• Fix our implementation of the Python os module to re-export bits of os.path expected for compatibility

• Implement time.localtime and time.struct_time. localtime uses CMOS time, since we don't have any time zone information available.

• Improvements to the Python acpi module:

  • Functions to list all available ACPI tables
  • Expose ACPI-related API from the acpi module, not the bits module
  • Parsing and output formatting improvements

• In the built-in _bits module, change all internal functions to have '_' prefixes, to hide them from the public bits module

• python testsuite: In generic MSR-handling code, handle GPF and avoid doing math on None

• Add a preliminary test to verify processor bus numbers from discovery algorithm against MSR if available

• Additions to MSR consistency blacklists for Sandy Bridge and Jaketown