- use isinstance instead of flaky file-detection code

mostly for convenience and to aid debugging.

  closes SF bug #764003
- fix markup for consistency

Backport candidate

on Windows.

Bugfix candidate.

Don't run any tests if there is no ssl support.

(Contributed by Gerritt Holl)

* Remove the last mentions of string exceptions
* Reference a third-party repository of programs
* Minor clarification of comp.lang.py posting volumes

Flesh out docs to better explain time.strptime (closes bug #697990).

Pass the proper variable when the user supplies a directory.
Will backport.

Don't check expanduser('~') if the home directory == the root directory
(ie, we are running as root).

defering to the encodings package.
As described in [ 763111 ] mbcs encoding should skip encodings package

Closes sf #761401.

Backport candidate.

sound while the first one is still running, as the first one
one might already have finished.

Fixes part of SF bug #763052.

Fixed a nit.

Also fix a memory leak.

- don't use "abc" in aString
- don't reorganize extension modules when not using zipimport

  installed Python, yet include any modules not in the std lib
- reworked extension module inclusion code: put all .so files in
  a subdirectory of Contents/Resources/, but more importantly,
  correctly support extensions that are submodules.

* Test with infinite inputs (using take() on the output)
* Test whether GC can find and eliminate cycles.

The obvious way for this assertion to fail is if the LineAndFileWrapper constructor is called when an empty line.  Raise a BadStatusError before the call.