Note why we can't write an automated test for the code path that brings up the REPL for a bare 'python' call

Take the first step in resolving the messy pkgutil vs importlib edge cases by basing pkgutil explicitly on importlib, deprecating its internal import emulation and setting __main__.__loader__ correctly so that runpy still works (Affects #15343, #15314, #15357)

Issue #9458: clarify the documentation of ElementTree.write with regards to the type of the stream expected for a given encoding

Close #1767933: Badly formed XML using etree and utf-16. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka, with some minor fixes by me

  the atexit module will be called in a deterministic order.

with it a vareity of bug fixes, both security and behavior.  See
http://www.libexpat.org/ for the list.

NOTE: I already backported the expat hash randomization fix in March.

Fixes issue #14340.

Close #15230: runpy.run_path now sets __package__ correctly. Also refactored the runpy tests to use a more systematic approach

tempfile directory path (i.e. on OS X /tmp is actually /private/tmp).

Patch by Jeremy Kloth.

Patch by Jeremy Kloth.

Issue #15338: skip test_UNC_path when the current user doesn't have enough permissions to access the path.

Issue #15338: skip test_UNC_path when the current user doesn't have enough permissions to access the path.

Lib/imp.py for imp.source_from_cache() instead of its own C version.

Also change PyImport_ExecCodeModuleObject() to not infer the source
path from the bytecode path like
PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() does. This makes the function
less magical.

This also has the side-effect of removing all uses of MAXPATHLEN in
Python/import.c which can cause failures on really long filenames.

the Python 3.3 change notice on them in case someone directly links to
the function(s).

Issue #15300: Ensure the temporary test working directories are in the same parent folder when running tests in multiprocess mode from a Python build.
Patch by Chris Jerdonek.

default on Windows and OS X as it already does with X11 Tk.

Issue #15296: Fix minidom.toxml/toprettyxml for non-unicode encodings.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka, with some minor style adjustments by me.