see #10181.

on an existing file.

(this does not seem to be easily testable)

the application.  Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.

timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.

itertools, operator and functools are not really "numeric" modules; move them into their own "functional" chapter.

Björn Lindqvist.

And not the compilation (if the input is a string).

That's why I prefer a single instruction per line :-)

Fix a ResourceWarning(unclosed socket). Patch written by Nadeem Vawda.

Fix a ResourceWarning(unclosed socket) if an exception is raised in the
constructor after the creation of the socket. Patch written by Nadeem Vawda.

- removed unnecessary struct_time to tuple conversion
- added more unit tests
(See issue #10827 for discussion.)

socket is now always non-blocking, regardless of the operating system.

Patch by Jean-Paul Calderone and Sandro Tosi.