* describe how \w is different when used in bytes and Unicode patterns.

* describe re.ASCII flag to change that behaviour.

* remove personal references ('I generally prefer...')

* add some more links to the re module in the library reference

* various small edits and re-wording.

(trying to fix a failure on the FreeBSD 9.0 buildbot)

Issue #16105: When a signal handler fails to write to the file descriptor registered with ``signal.set_wakeup_fd()``, report an exception instead of ignoring the error.

This lets us run PyObject_RichCompareBool() without
first needing to check whether the entry is a dummy.

inside subjectAltName correctly. Formerly the module has used OpenSSL's
GENERAL_NAME_print() function to get the string represention of ASN.1
strings for rfc822Name (email), dNSName (DNS) and
uniformResourceIdentifier (URI).

inside subjectAltName correctly. Formerly the module has used OpenSSL's
GENERAL_NAME_print() function to get the string represention of ASN.1
strings for rfc822Name (email), dNSName (DNS) and
uniformResourceIdentifier (URI).

PEP 11:
  Name: Systems using --with-pth (GNU pth threads)
  Unsupported in: Python 3.2
  Code removed in: Python 3.3

For some reason I forgot to do it before committing the patch in issue #18585.