TESTFN_NONASCII of test.support from Python 3.4. Backport tests on non-ASCII
paths.

with the surrogateescape error handler, instead of UTF-8 in strict mode.

Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

failure on OS X built with 10.4 ABI.

new parameters in os and shutil functions.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

parameter from os.remove / os.unlink.
Patch written by Georg Brandl.  (I'm really looking forward to George
getting commit privileges so I don't have to keep doing checkins on his
behalf.)

Many functions now support "dir_fd" and "follow_symlinks" parameters;
some also support accepting an open file descriptor in place of of a path
string.  Added os.support_* collections as LBYL helpers.  Removed many
functions only previously seen in 3.3 alpha releases (often starting with
"f" or "l", or ending with "at").  Originally suggested by Serhiy Storchaka;
implemented by Larry Hastings.

when the path existed and had the S_ISGID mode bit set when it was not
explicitly asked for.  This is no longer an exception as mkdir cannot control
if the OS sets that bit for it or not.

Adding new files into the tree lead to buildbot fails as the order wasn't
deterministic.

Patch by Hynek Schlawack.

Removed futimens as it is now redundant.
Changed shutil.copystat to use st_atime_ns and st_mtime_ns from os.stat
and ns= parameter to utime--it once again preserves exact metadata on Linux!

the os module.

    http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/48705250232c
    changeset:   75187:48705250232c
    branch:      2.7
    parent:      75184:9a1d902714ae
    user:        Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
    date:        Wed Feb 22 22:16:25 2012 +0100

    changeset:   75153:9b7c6dd19e25
    branch:      2.7
    parent:      75151:b1a02c17b327
    user:        Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
    date:        Tue Feb 21 22:02:04 2012 +0100
    files:       Lib/test/test_os.py

  environment variable, to provide an opt-in way to protect against denial of
  service attacks due to hash collisions within the dict and set types.  Patch
  by David Malcolm, based on work by Victor Stinner.

in order to make algorithmic complexity attacks on (e.g.) web apps much more complicated.

The environment variable PYTHONHASHSEED and the new command line flag -R control this
behavior.

os.get_terminal_size (low level) and shutil.get_terminal_size (high level).
Patch by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek.

with a subsecond resolution