arguments with the system default encoding just like the write() method
does, instead of converting it to a raw buffer.

exceptions, when a document with timestamp earlier than 1980 is provided to
zipfile. Patch contributed by  Petri Lehtinen.

semicolons. Patch by Ben Darnell and Petri Lehtinen.

Thanks, Shawn Ligocki!

3.x version will come as a separate patch.

Issue #13194: zlib.compressobj().copy() and zlib.decompressobj().copy() are now available on Windows.

Patch by Justin Love.

Also fix the builtin file class and the bz2 module, which used the same algorithm.

TLS implementations, and fails with the ad-hoc TLS implementation when a thread
doesn't have an auto thread state (e.g. a thread created outside of Python
calling into a subinterpreter).

to howto/cporting.rst.

The check command was fixed by Kirill Kuzminykh.

The register command was using StringIO.getvalue, which uses “''.join”
and thus coerces to str using the default encoding (ASCII), so I changed
the code to use one extra intermediary list and correctly encode to
UTF-8.

(found by Georg)

Reported by Zsolt Cserna.

Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.

Found by Franz Glasner in #2504.

contents cannot be read.

(Backport to 2.7 of existing 3.x fix)