We do not need to force a close when using socket buffering on a
httplib.HTTPRequest as the library does not support streaming requests
so there should never been extra data beyond the end of the current
request to have left over in the requests socket buffer.

see http://bugs.python.org/issue6724

added more test coverage for distutils.filelist to prevent regressions when fnmatch or re are changed

fixed how fnmatch.translate is used (since it has changed in r74475 for #6665). Now the code is not harcoding the usage of $ anymore

Patch from Frank Wierzbicki.

buffering=True as our buffered data is not known to the HTTPConnection and may
contain data needed by a future request if the connection were left open.

See http://bugs.python.org/issue2576 and http://bugs.python.org/issue4879.

the xview* and yview* methods.

tokenizing step.

Thanks to Ivan Krstić for the patch.

properly handles EINTR within the read, readline, write & flush methods.
The socket.sendall() method now properly handles interrupted system calls.