- Issue #15250: Document that filecmp.dircmp compares files shallowly. Patch contributed by Chris Jerdonek.

regardless of which of the two implementations of new is used.

Patch by Jeff Knupp.

Patch by Torsten Landschoff.

This sentence appears as a clarifying note in the HTML docs, and seems
worth having in the docstring since it covers a very common use case
that isn't otherwise obvious.  Thanks to Yongzhi Pan for the suggestion.

Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

Patch by Flávio Ribeiro.

Patch by Julia Lawall.

Used os.path.join before which has different semantics on Windows.

ISsue #14988: restore Python 2's behavior of raising ImportError when unable to load pyexpat, instead of a SystemError/RuntimeError

Based on a patch by Nick Coghlan.

Issue #15230: Attempt to make the OS X buildbots happy by resolving the tmp dir symlink in the test suite

The asserts were useless (and buggy).

select.poll before running.  works both ways (finally).  this should fix
the windows build.

platforms that don't have it.

to avoid failing due to the select() file descriptor limit.

Close #15230: runpy.run_path now sets __package__ correctly. Also refactored the runpy tests to use a more systematic approach

Patch by Jeremy Kloth.

Issue #15338: skip test_UNC_path when the current user doesn't have enough permissions to access the path.