(backporting to release24-maint branch)

can be processed.  (Submitted by Jooncheol Park)

* Added a note that the initial file position is zero even if the object
  is freshly initialized.

* Call to unpack_int() should have no arguments
* Misspelled BadRPCVerspion exception
* Replace <> with !=

  for non-complex arguments.

* Replace type() comparisons with isinstance() checks.

* Replace apply() calls with equivalent syntactic form.

* Simplify __hash__ definition to hash the underlying tuple.

* Use math.hypot() for more robust computation of __abs__().

* Use sorted() instead of the multi-step keys/sort/iter.

* Update comment on the cmath module.

'parser' module and 'compiler' package.

Closes patch #1176012.  Thanks logistix.

test_site often failed under "regrtest.py -r", because this xmlrpc test
left sys with a setdefaultencoding attribute, but loading site.py removes
that attribute and test_site.py verifies the attribute is gone.  Changed
this test to get rid of sys.setdefaultencoding if it didn't exist when
this test started.

Don't know whether this is a bugfix (backport) candidate.

because (essentially) I didn't realise that PY_BEGIN/END_ALLOW_THREADS
actually expanded to nothing under a no-threads build, so if you somehow
NULLed out the threadstate (e.g. by calling PyThread_SaveThread) it would
stay NULLed when you return to Python.  Argh!

Backport candidate.

* resp[:1] in '123' # after Py2.2, this allowed blank responses to pass.
* replace <> with !=
* provide a usage message for empty command line calls

Backport candidate.

the last character read is "\r" (and size is None, i.e. we're allowed to
call read() multiple times), so that we can return the correct line ending
(this additional character might be a "\n").

If the stream is temporarily exhausted, we might return the wrong line ending
(if the last character read is "\r" and the next one (after the byte stream
provides more data) is "\n", but at least the atcr member ensure that we
get the correct number of lines (i.e. this "\n" will not be treated as
another line ending.)

documentation.  (Patch #1173245, Contributed by Jeremy Yallop)

a default value of recursion limit from build systems.  1000 levels
are still too high for some 64bit systems.

so there's no need to pad after off_t members.  And a small typo fix.

properly encoded and include the encoding in the Content-Type header.

commit a yelp about a noted flaw the error messages for METH_KEYWORDS
functions under some circumstances.