TLS or SSL.  Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.

PyFormat_FromStringV and PyErr_Format.

the registry under Windows.  Patch by Gabriel Genellina.

Many thanks Stefan Krah for help and OpenSolaris testing.

xrange tests to cover some special cases that caused problems
in py3k.  This is a partial backport of r76292-76293 (see
issue #7298.)

Resolution: Reset the nonce value for each unique nonce (as per RFC 2617)

Issue #6816: expose the zipfile and directory execution mechanism to Python code via the runpy module. Also consolidated some script execution functionality in the test harness into a helper module and removed some implementation details from the runpy module documentation.

handler for it.

catch the case of an option with no handler.

warning, to improve buildbot stability.

a loop until a test fails.  Can be combined with -j.  Patch by Antoine
Pitrou.

a connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The
default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for
local connections.

I'm bumping up the longer test to the 60 seconds I intended to make it.
If this doesn't cure the intermittent buildbot timeouts, I'm going to
turn that test into a warning rather than a failure.

based on Issue1235.

unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.

Additionally, Test_TextTestRunner hadn't been enabled in test_unittest.

shadow variables in the outer scope (issue 7290).

test function, and skip that test on Linux/alpha systems with a broken
system round function.

This should turn the Debian/alpha buildbot green.

than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
`thread.start_new_thread()`.

Closes issue #5611. Thanks Kirk McDonald and Johannes Hoff.

The leak may not manifest itself if the OS re-uses the same thread ids
(I suppose Neal's machine doesn't :-))