socket in httplib.py.

The bug reports that on Windows, you must pass sock._sock to the
socket.ssl() call.  But on Unix, you must pass sock itself.  (sock is
a wrapper on Windows but not on Unix; the ssl() call wants the real
socket object, not the wrapper.)

So we see if sock has an _sock attribute and if so, extract it.

Unfortunately, the submitter of the bug didn't confirm that this patch
works, so I'll just have to believe it (can't test it myself since I
don't have OpenSSL on Windows set up, and that's a nontrivial thing I
believe).

                  using *only* empty lists may not be acceptable on all
                  platforms, with the specific caveat that it does not
                  work on Windows.  Also clarified list of acceptable
                  objects that may be in the lists, to let the user know
                  that file objects are not usable here on Windows.

StreamReader ignores the 'errors' parameter passed to its constructor

after implementing it I liked Gregor's two-"?" line idea a lot.

sequence repitition works just fine with long integers now, so we
should not say that only plain integers are allowed.

implement as many of the relevant methods as make sense for the particular
information being modelled.

objects can be modified at any point with the expected results.

This fixes SF Bug #124478.

interpreter.  Update and reword the credits for CPython.  Closes SF
patch #102665.

Implements and closes SF patch #102106, with Guido's suggested
documentation changes.

                   getlogin() -- it is not clear that a NULL is always
                   an error.

                   NULL without setting errno; observed on Linux
                   Mandrake 7.2 by an anonymous user.

This closes bug #124758.

Fix type of the self parameter to some string object methods.

This closes patch #102670.

- Use new Error class (subclass of RuntimeError so is backward
  compatible) which is raised when RuntimeError used to be raised.
- Report original attribute name in error messages instead of name
  mangled with namespace URL.

SAX1 code to SAX2, based on bug #123695.

coverage to ensure bug #124324 does not re-surface.

This closes bug #124324.

accepts. Clarify exception messages for isinstance() and
issubclass().  Closes bug #124106.

Added an extraexportsymbols option, to allow (you guessed it:-) extra export symbols to be specified.

Fixed definition of _cmp.

protocols. Closes bug #119822.

getsockaddrarg when the address is not a tuple.

buffer" replaced by "string or read-only character buffer".

I suggested to Guido that %u be deprecated (it seems useless in Python to me).