Changes the previously private attributes to make them public, increasing the potential for extending the library in user code. Backward-compatible and documented.

The EPIPE error occurs when the server closes the socket and the client sends a
"big" XML-RPC request (I don't know exactly the size threshold).

request() just have to ignore the error because single_request() closes the
socket on error, and so the next call to single_request() will open a new
socket.

Remove also a comment in the HTTP client because it's now wrong: see r70643
and issue #5542.

doesn't except a value (eg. --help= is rejected if getopt uses ['help='] long
options).

Closes issue 9358. Thanks to Brian Brazil for the patch.

Closes issue 9357. Thanks to Brian Brazil for the patch.

Noticed by Amaury.

Partially closes issue 9356. Thanks to Brian Brazil for the patch.

Partially closes issue 9356. Thanks to Brian Brazil for the patch.

on OSX. This fixes a small issue that was exposed
by running test_subprocess through regrtest (and
hence in a subdirectory).

Without this patch running python.exe from the
build tree will fail when these tree conditions
are true:
1) the CWD is not the root of build tree
2) python.exe is found through $PATH
3) the framework is not yet installed

Partially closes issue 9346. Thanks to Brian Brazil for the patch.

Partially closes issue 9346. Thanks Brian Brazil for the patch.

Closes issue 8392. Thanks Virgil Dupras for the initial patch.

Closes issue 9342. Thanks John Chandler for the patch.

with the fact that getgroups(2) might return
more that MAX_GROUPS on OSX.

See the issue (and python-dev archives) for the
gory details. Summarized: OSX behaves rather oddly
and Apple says this is intentional.

"roughly" done.

Closes issue 9339. Thanks Brian Brazil for the patch.

Patch by Virgil Dupras.

when calling platform.mac_ver after calling os.fork by
reading from a system configuration file instead of
using OSX APIs.

avoid failing when the framework is not
yet installed.

itself and not by others.

Closes issue 9255.

the Crash Reporter on OSX test_subprocess will trigger
the reporter.

This patch prints a warning when the Crash Reporter will
get triggered intentionally, which should avoid confusing
people.

in distutils.sysconfig matches that in the
toplevel sysconfig module.

Without this patch universal builds on OSX are
broken.

Als add a test that checks that the two version
of get_config_vars agree on important values.

#9189 for some GCC flags.

reverted distutils its 3.1 state. All new work is now happening in disutils2, and distutils is now feature-frozen.

module which is the largest module in the stdlib.

of the script being traced.  Patch by Eli Bendersky.

with EOFError.
(this is only an added test, but 2.x will get a fix too)

Remove outdated mention of deprecated functions in the string module - they have been removed in 3.x.