test_shutdown() may fail on very slow buildbots like FreeBSD 6.4 just because
of the arbitrary timeout.

as the processor type on some Mac systems.  Also fix NameError in fallback
_mac_ver_gestalt function.  And remove out-of-date URL in docs.

the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.

Raise ValueError when attempting to set the _CHUNK_SIZE attribute of a TextIOWrapper to a huge value, not TypeError.

cleared by the garbage collector.  This fixes a segfault when an instance
and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
IOBase).

Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.

Also, point to the various alternatives.

failure in name resolution.

Should fix a buildbot failure.

failure in name resolution.

Should fix a buildbot failure.

an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
Web site.

DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name.  The test
is now skipped instead.

DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name.  The test
is now skipped instead.

reset, check the version of the OpenSSL headers Python was compiled against,
rather than the runtime version of the OpenSSL library.

The Python signal handler for SIGABRT is not called on os.abort() (only if the
signal is raised manually or sent by another process). Patch by Kamil Kisiel.

OS X window manager connection in tk tests, use OS X Application Services
API calls instead.

scripts using a encoding different than UTF-8 (read the coding cookie of the
script).

subprocess.Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors if the process has
only one pipe.

tests.

testcase failure in test_ssl.

issue10403 - Let's not use members anymore. Use 'attribute' where it denotes attribute and 'methods' where it denotes methods. Context should clarify usage.

fresh process with only one thread and to not change signal handling of the
parent process.