shell window is present. (Original patch by Terry Reedy)

The stdlib docs for package distribution and building extensions
are rather dated, and that isn't expected to change for 2.7 and
3.3.

The Python Packaging User Guide isn't complete either, but it's
already a much better road map for new users than the existing
stdlib docs.

direct call.

os.dup2() is available on Windows.

reference cycles between frames and the _Outcome instance.

Patch written by Vajrasky Kok.

the UTF-8 encoding with the surrogateescape error handler, instead of decoding
from the locale encoding in strict mode. It fixes the function on Fedora 19
which is probably the first major distribution release with a non-ASCII name.
Patch written by Toshio Kuratomi.