than 'iso8859-1'.

error in spite of a succesful compression.

support.

The TarInfo class now contains all necessary logic to process and
create tar header data which has been moved there from the TarFile
class. The fromtarfile() method was added. The new path and linkpath
properties are aliases for the name and linkname attributes in
correspondence to the pax naming scheme.

The TarFile constructor and classmethods now accept a number of
keyword arguments which could only be set as attributes before (e.g.
dereference, ignore_zeros). The encoding and pax_headers arguments
were added for pax support. There is a new tarinfo keyword argument
that allows using subclassed TarInfo objects in TarFile.

The boolean TarFile.posix attribute is deprecated, because now three
tar formats are supported. Instead, the desired format for writing is
specified using the constants USTAR_FORMAT, GNU_FORMAT and PAX_FORMAT
as the format keyword argument. This change affects TarInfo.tobuf()
as well.

The test suite has been heavily reorganized and partially rewritten.
A new testtar.tar was added that contains sample data in many formats
from 4 different tar programs.

Some bugs and quirks that also have been fixed:
Directory names do no longer have a trailing slash in TarInfo.name or
TarFile.getnames().
Adding the same file twice does not create a hardlink file member.
The TarFile constructor does no longer need a name argument.
The TarFile._mode attribute was renamed to mode and contains either
'r', 'w' or 'a'.

email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.
Will backport.

directory within sys.exec_prefix.

pydoc's help keywords.

concatenation in robotparser.

field names in its exception message if you try to write a record with
a dictionary containing fields not in the CSV field names list.

OSError if accessing a local file via the file:// protocol fails.

  * lines too long
  * wrong indentation
  * space after a function name
  * wrong function name in error string
  * simplifying some logic

Also add an error check to PyDict_SetItemString.

Brian Leair  - 922167
Tomer Filiba - 1591665
Jeremy Jones - 1192590

nests test.test_support.TransientResource context managers that capture
exceptions raised when the Internet connection is flaky.

Initially using in test_socket_ssl but should probably be expanded to cover any
test that should not raise the captured exceptions if the Internet connection
works.

Bug #742342: make Python stop segfaulting on infinitely-recursive reload()s. Fixed by patch #922167.
Will backport.

case, even when converting the value to a string failed.

Patch #1591665: implement the __dir__() special function lookup in PyObject_Dir.

Had to change a few bits of the patch because classobjs and __methods__ are still
in Py2.6.

that given the inputs in these tests Excel does indeed produce the output
these tests expect.  Document that for future confused folks.

display name of an email address, e.g.

Foo
\tBar <foo@example.com>

Test case added by Barry.

stable FTP.
Will backport.

Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint number.
Will backport.

__dict__ and __weakref__ are removed from the slots tuple earlier
in the code, in the loop that mangles slot names. Will backport.

Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.

Update to use predominant style of spaces around = in args list
and print to stderr if debugging.

Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket.
Will backport.