rather than do it by platform -- the proper skips are in place already.

occur, as a result of signed integer overflow.

And if not they can be merged back together when that becomes apparent.

to prevent crashes.

In PySlice_IndicesEx, clip the step to [-PY_SSIZE_T_MAX, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX] rather than [PY_SSIZE_T_MIN, PY_SSIZE_T_MAX].

Issue #9526:  Remove outdated casts to int that were preventing the array module from working correctly with arrays > 2GB.

with os.kill.

exposed in Python.h.  This function is similar to POSIX
gettimeofday(struct timeval *tp), but available on platforms without
gettimeofday().

by the server. Many servers are buggy and advertise authentication methods they
o not support in reality. This change makes smtplib.auth() work more often in
the real world, where we face misconfigured servers and servers that advertise
methods they don't support due to the madness that is SASL.

Patch by Meador Inge.

(And similarly for complex numbers.)

Thanks Yitz Gale.

are now included in the set of attributes copied by default by
functools.wraps and functools.update_wrapper.  Patch by Terrence Cole.

The test suite currently skips test_multiprocessing on Windows
because it fails on finding _multiprocessing in several
win32-specific blocks. Removing the relative import lets this
through and allows the test to run (and pass).

Michele Orrù.

as per discussion with antoine revert changes made in 83708 as the user useing ftplib's readline methods is supposed to always use a binary file

fix issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly (patch by Alexander Shigin). Merged from 2.7 branch.