It is causing trouble like e.g. hanging processes.

The underlying C libraries provide no mechanism for serializing compressor and
decompressor objects, so actually pickling these classes is impractical.
Previously, these objects would be pickled without error, but attempting to use
a deserialized instance would segfault the interpreter.

screen refresh problem.

pseudo-random number generator on fork().

100 headers are read.  Adapted from patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.

prevent readline() calls from consuming too much memory.  Patch by Jyrki
Pulliainen.

prevent readline() calls from consuming too much memory.  Patch by Jyrki
Pulliainen.

for security reasons.  It now doesn't match multiple wildcards nor wildcards
inside IDN fragments.

line length.  Patch by Emil Lind.

This mitigates the current Aqua Tk refresh problem on OS X 10.9
by backporting 2.7.x behavior and is transparent to the user.

Make it easier for users to make use of the backup _tkinter linked
with the third-party Tcl and Tk frameworks in /Library/Frameworks.
The two tkinter variants are now installed in separate directories
under a new lib-tkinter.  This allows per-user selection by
manipulating sys.path, directly or with PYTHONPATH.  If this
proves useful, we can supply a more convenient user interface
to supply the paths.  For now, this remains somewhat experimental.

compute timeout.

10.8+ when using a universal Python that included a PPC architecture,
such as with a python.org 32-bit-only binary installer.

being defined on top of __name__.