Original patch by Kushal Das.

the sentence referred to. Make other minor edits to improve flow.

objects.  Original patch by Aman Shah.

#17368: Fix an off-by-one error in the Python JSON decoder that caused a failure while decoding empty object literals when object_pairs_hook was specified.

as reported by Serhiy Storchaka and Matthew Barnett.

as reported by Serhiy Storchaka and Matthew Barnett.

found by Serhiy Storchaka and Matthew Barnett

Document that ctypes automatically applies byref() when argtypes declares
POINTER.

response message when  send_error includes a message in addition to error
status. Patch contributed by Karl.

This removes the dependency on bisect and it bring the pure Python code
in-sync with the C code.

framework builds.

Issue #17278: Fix a crash in heapq.heappush() and heapq.heappop() when the list is being resized concurrently.