Previous commit changed macpath but macpath is not used anymore as os.path

directly. It used to be built with bzip2's makefile.

Store all errors signaling a disconnection into a global frozenset to save some computation time on recv() and send().

independent of the locale. Set LC_ALL=C too.

module.

Closes issue #9848. Thanks to Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis for the bug
report.

The forward links are hard references.
The sentinel element is also a weakref proxy
(to break a forward cylce wrapping around the sentinel).

handles non-blocking readinto() returning None correctly.

objects supporting the whole socket API (rather than the "raw"
_socket.socket objects).

Remove pointers to a FAQ entry that no longer exists.  Incorporate some text from the old FAQ into the docs

SSLSocket.sendto() to match the corresponding socket methods.