Patch by Chaitanya agrawal.

Among other issues, the Apple-supplied 0.9.7 libs for the 10.5 ABI cannot
verify newer SHA-256 certs as now used by python.org services.  Document
in the installer ReadMe some of the certificate management issues that
users now need to be more concerned with due to PEP 476's enabling cert
verification by default.  For now, continue to use the Apple-supplied
0.9.8 libs for the 10.6+ installer since they use Apple private APIs to
verify certificates using the system- and user-managed CA keychain stores.

when Python is configure with --with-tsc. Patch written by Christian Heimes.

value in the host header was set to "None".  Patch by Demian Brecht.

Mark the write end of the stdin pipe as non-inheritable.

socket transport

Add an entry in the language datamodel special methods section.
Revise and index its discussion in the stdtypes mapping/dict section.

is run with pythonw.exe.

Patch by Chaitanya Agrawal.

An exception handler assumed that that OSError objects always have a
'winerror' attribute. That is not the case, so the exception handler
itself raised AttributeError when run on Linux (and, presumably, any
other non-Windows OS).

Patch by Greg Ward.

Patch by Éric Araujo.

Issue #1218234. Initial patch by Berker Peksag.

Closes issue #23009.

HTTPSConnection: prefer the context's check_hostname attribute over the constructor parameter (#22959)

Patch by Kurt Roeckx.