Add an "exc_value" attribute to the _AssertRaisesContext context manager in the unittest package.  This allows further tests on the exception that was raised after the context manager exits.

fix a mistake in instantiatiating the HTTPSConnection class.

We do not need to force a close when using socket buffering on a
httplib.HTTPRequest as the library does not support streaming requests
so there should never been extra data beyond the end of the current
request to have left over in the requests socket buffer.

see http://bugs.python.org/issue6724

added more test coverage for distutils.filelist to prevent regressions when fnmatch or re are changed

fixed how fnmatch.translate is used (since it has changed in r74475 for #6665). Now the code is not harcoding the usage of $ anymore