On platforms that do not support (symbolic) links, tarfile offers a
work-around and extracts a link in an archive as the regular file the link is
pointing to. On other platforms, this code was accidentally executed even
after the link had been successfully extracted which failed due to the already
existing link.

On platforms that do not support (symbolic) links, tarfile offers a
work-around and extracts a link in an archive as the regular file the link is
pointing to. On other platforms, this code was accidentally executed even
after the link had been successfully extracted which failed due to the already
existing link.

(originally issue #13464: Add a readinto() method to http.client.HTTPResponse)

It is faster than the unicode_fill() function which was implemented in
formatter_unicode.c.

(except when SSLv2 is explicitly asked for).

(except when SSLv2 is explicitly asked for).

use io.SEEK_* constants instead of os.SEEK_* where an IO stream is seeked, leaving the os.SEEK_* constants only for os.lseek, as documented