Fixed #6377: distutils compiler switch ignored (and added a deprecation warning if compiler is not used as supposed = a string option)

close_request() (which can send a socket.shutdown()) must be called by the child process in a forking server.  The parent must merely close the socket handle.

integer packing, and reenable some previously broken tests.

operator.sequenceIncludes.

Patch contributed by Jeff Balogh (and updated slightly by me).

names.

it does not fail when file descriptors are large.  Fixes issue3392.

Patch largely contributed by Frank Chu (fpmc) with some improvements by me.
See http://bugs.python.org/issue3392.

Candidate for backporting to release26-maint as it is a bug fix and changes no
public API.

Incorrect exception handling for xmlrpc client retry

Incorrect exception handling for xmlrp client retry

some platforms may raise ENOTCONN if the stack has disconnected the socket on behalf of the peer.

stat module.

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/sandbox/trunk/2to3/lib2to3

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  r73379 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-06-11 18:06:21 -0500 (Thu, 11 Jun 2009) | 1 line

  use a real conditional expresion
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  r73388 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-06-12 09:44:29 -0500 (Fri, 12 Jun 2009) | 1 line

  fix typo in last fix
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  r73507 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-06-22 13:32:04 -0500 (Mon, 22 Jun 2009) | 1 line

  remove svn:executable property
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  r73722 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-06-30 19:44:30 -0500 (Tue, 30 Jun 2009) | 1 line

  replace fail* with assert*
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Thanks Joe Amenta