- output type errors now redirect users to the type-neutral
  convenience functions in the codecs module
- stateless errors that occur during encoding and decoding
  will now be automatically wrapped in exceptions that give
  the name of the codec involved

Replace it with PyUnicode_GET_LENGTH() or PyUnicode_AsUnicodeAndSize()

failures

failure

PyUnicode_Substring() failure (ex: MemoryError)

test.support: considering the module is a mix of utilities unrelated with each other divide __all__ in sub-sections so that it can be used as a quick-reference doc

Patch written by Andrei Dorian Duma.

shutdown to call objects destructors. So "unclosed file" resource warnings are
now corretly emitted for daemon threads.

The SMTP server advertises four different authentication methods, and
the code will try CRAM-MD5 first, which will fail, but LOGIN succeeds.

Patch by Donald Stufft and Nick Coghlan

delaying the main thread so that it doesn't race ahead of the workers.

(issue #16685).

Merge with 3.3 for Issue #19544 and Issue #6286. Merge is untested. I was unable to test due to bab0cbf86835.

Issue #19544 and Issue #6286: Restore use of urllib over http allowing use of http_proxy for Distutils upload command, a feature accidentally lost in the rollback of distutils2.