* Don't create a thread at startup anymore to initialize the pthread library:
   it changes the behaviour of many functions related to signal handling like
   sigwait()
 * Reenable test_sigtimedwait_poll() on FreeBSD 6

Merge from 3.2 . Replace the term members with correct  and appropriate terminology. Initial patch by Adam Woodbeck.

issue10403 - Let's not use members anymore. Use 'attribute' where it denotes attribute and 'methods' where it denotes methods. Context should clarify usage.

to run the test in a fresh process with only one thread and to not change
signal handling of the parent process.

fresh process with only one thread and to not change signal handling of the
parent process.

Replace PendingDeprecationWarning warnings by DeprecationWarning.

Add a new HAVE_MBCS define.

Don't unset and set againt the HAVE_CLOCK define, reorder the #if tests
instead. Fix also the definition of the timezone encoding.

Windows if the mbcs codec is not available, and fail with a fatal error if we
cannot get the locale encoding (if nl_langinfo(CODESET) is not available)
instead of using UTF-8.

Python 3.3 has the correct fix for #12429, use pthread_sigmask().

On FreeBSD, the SIGALRM signal is sometimes received by the reader thread.

test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).

test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).

emitted at shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.

shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.

shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.

binary mode, instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to avoid encoding
issues.

instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to avoid encoding issues.

binary mode, instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to support other
encodings than UTF-8 (scripts using the coding cookie).

instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to support other encodings than
UTF-8 (scripts using the coding cookie).

mode instead of the text mode (using the locale encoding) to avoid encoding
issues.

of the text mode (using the locale encoding) to avoid encoding issues.