were two module_methods and the one used depended on the order the
modules were loaded.  By making the test module_methods static,
it is not exported and the correct version is picked up.

Thanks Gabriel Genellina.

Suggested by Raymond Hettinger.

httplib will now raise IncompleteRead and close the connection instead
of raising ValueError.

Originally written for GHOP by Josip Dzolonga, heavily patched by me.

raises an exception.

    class RunSelfFunction(object):
        def __init__(self):
            self.thread = threading.Thread(target=self._run)
            self.thread.start()
        def _run(self):
            pass
from creating a permanent cycle between the object and the thread by having the
Thread delete its references to the object when it completes.

As an example of the effect of this bug, paramiko.Transport inherits from
Thread to avoid it.

Permission for pyc and pyo files are inherited from the py file.

Fix by Malte Helmert

Remove automatic handling of datetime.date and datetime.time.
This breaks backward compatibility, but python-dev discussion was strongly
against this automatic conversion; see the bug for a link.

Call setupterm() first so that we get a Python exception instead of just existing.

wrapper around the system call with the same name.  Also added
test cases, doc changes and NEWS entry. Thanks Jason and Ralf
Schmitt.