Added shlex and netrc modules; added warning about urllib change

affecting subclasses (which Jeremy just found out).
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@ -61,6 +61,12 @@ Otherwise modules such as thread didn't get incorporated in extensions.
New library modules
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- shlex.py by Eric Raymond provides a lexical analyzer class for
simple shell-like syntaxes.
- netrc.py by Eric Raymond provides a parser for .netrc files. (The
undocumented Netrc class in ftplib.py is now obsolete.)
- codeop.py is a new module that contains the compile_command()
function that was previously in code.py. This is so that JPython can
provide its own version of this function, while still sharing the
@ -117,6 +123,10 @@ patches).
- types.py: use type(__stdin__) for FileType.
- urllib.py: fix translations for filenames with "funny" characters.
Patch by Sjoerd Mullender. Note that if you subclass one of the
URLopener classes, and you have copied code from the old urllib.py,
your subclass may stop working. A long-term solution is to provide
more methods so that you don't have to copy code.
- cgi.py: In read_multi, allow a subclass to override the class we
instantiate when we create a recursive instance, by setting the class