Extend work on rev 52962 and 53830 eliminating redundant PyObject_Hash() calls and fixing set/dict interoperability.

 (backport from rev. 54409)

Backported from r54404.

the implementation for __reduce__ and __reduce_ex__ into two separate
functions. Fixes bug #931877.
 (backport from rev. 54397)

initialization failed.
 (backport from rev. 54394)

thread lib doc.
 (backport from rev. 54392)

name. Remove a reference leak that happened if the name could not be
converted to string.
 (backport from rev. 54378)

AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response didn't
contain a valid HTTP status line.
 (backport from rev. 54376)

covers everything now that Mac OS 9 isn't a popular issue.

2047-like headers where there is no whitespace between encoded words.  This
fix changes the matching regexp to include a trailing lookahead assertion that
the closing ?= must be followed by whitespace, newline, or end-of-string.
This also changes the regexp to add the MULTILINE flag.

 (backport from rev. 54365)

error in spite of a succesful compression.
 (backport from rev. 54336)

email.message.Message.{set_charset,get_content_charset}.

directory within sys.exec_prefix.
 (backport from rev. 54331)

pydoc's help keywords.
 (backport from rev. 54329)

 (backport from rev. 54323)

Bug #742342: make Python stop segfaulting on infinitely-recursive reload()s. Fixed by patch #922167.
Backported from r54291.

 (backport from rev. 54292)

display name of an email address, e.g.

Foo
\tBar <foo@example.com>

Test case added by Barry.

stable FTP.
Backported from r54278.

Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint number.
Backport of r54271.

__dict__ and __weakref__ are removed from the slots tuple earlier
in the code, in the loop that mangles slot names.
 (backport from rev. 54270)

 (backport from rev. 54268)

Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket. Fixed by patch #1545011.
Backported from r54253.

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk/Lib/ctypes

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  r54248 | thomas.heller | 2007-03-09 21:39:22 +0100 (Fr, 09 Mär 2007) | 7 lines

  Bug #1651235: When a tuple was passed to a ctypes function call,
  Python would crash instead of raising an error.

  The crash was caused by a section of code that should have been
  removed long ago, at that time ctypes had other ways to pass
  parameters to function calls.
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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk/Lib/ctypes

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  r54244 | thomas.heller | 2007-03-09 20:21:28 +0100 (Fr, 09 Mär 2007) | 3 lines

  Fix bug #1646630: ctypes.string_at(buf, 0) and ctypes.wstring_at(buf, 0)
  returned string up to the first NUL character.
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by HTTPS connections that time out.