the linker options correctly.

rotating the object pointer by 4 bits to the right.

  supporting objects as input no matter how it was compiled (built in
  implementations or external openssl library).
(backported from a py3k branch)

on LP64 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).

test_fdopen (test_os.py) pass.

function without argtypes, if HAVE_USABLE_WCHAR_T is false.

Thanks Lisandro Dalcin.

negative arguments.  Previously, it raised TypeError.

Thanks Lisandro Dalcin.

Issue 4804.  Add a function to test the validity of file descriptors on Windows, and stop using global runtime settings to silence the warnings / assertions.

Fixed #3386: the optional prefix argument was ignored under OS2 and NT in distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib

should be recreated. This created a timing hole. Fixed by just doing what
import does; check the mtime and magic number.

potential deadlock.