It measures the number of UDP packets processed per second depending on
the number of background CPU-bound Python threads.

Add the keyword argument "method=None" to the .write() method and the tostring/tostringlist functions.
Update the function, class and method signatures, according to the new convention.

string. Initialize all attributes to be able to call the statement destructor
on error.

Avoid also a duplicate connection in some tests: setUp() does already open a
connection (":memory:").

Deactivate automatic upload of the docs to python.org, they will now be built by a job on that machine.

Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3.  The cElementTree module is updated too.

the #7774 bug.

retrieve the absolute Python path even if argv[0] has been set to a non
existent program name.

set to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
program name.

Fix also sysconfig: if sys.executable is an empty string, use the current
working directory.

It does not fix #7774.

Copy/paste failure :-)

(SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
module.