Thanks to David D Lowe for reporting.

  variable if empty path argument is specified.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

Patch by Jason Michalski.

variable name (str on UNIX), instead of using the encoded name (bytes on UNIX).

integers where appropriate.  Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

PyErr_SetFromWindowsErrWithFilenameObject, and
PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilenameObject.

Note that PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilenameObjectAndSomeOtherParametersSoThatTheNameGetsSoLongThatNobodyIsEverGonnaUseThisStrangeFunctionForAnything is still undocumented.

The test was closing the orginal object instead the copy. This didn't result
in visible failures because the loop range was incorrect as well.

This commit fixes a bug in the 'site' module that was causing an exception
to incorrectly be thrown when running 'python -S -m site'.  The problem was
that 'USER_BASE' and 'USER_SITE' were being accessed before they were properly
initialized.  The code has been changed to use 'getuserbase' and
'getusersitepackages' instead so that the initialization always happens.

in the re module.  Patch by Nickolai Zeldovich.