Speed this test up by avoiding a sleep and using the event.

failure in the shelve module.  Thanks Thomas Herve.

Thanks Thomas Herve

Thomas Herve explained to me that PyCrypto depends on the constants. I'm adding the aliases because C code for Python 2.x should compile under 2.6 as well. The aliases aren't available in Python 3.x though.

stringobject, unicodeobject and the two formatters are rebuild whenever a header files changes

run the test simultaneously.  The simplest thing I found that worked
on both Windows and Unix was to use the PID.  It's unique so should be
sufficient.  This should prevent many of the spurious failures of
the automated tests since they run as different users.

Also cleanup the directory consistenly in the tearDown methods.

It would be nice if someone ensured that the directories are always
created with a consistent name.

were two module_methods and the one used depended on the order the
modules were loaded.  By making the test module_methods static,
it is not exported and the correct version is picked up.

Thanks Gabriel Genellina.

Suggested by Raymond Hettinger.

httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the connection instead
of raising ValueError.

Originally written for GHOP by Josip Dzolonga, heavily patched by me.