The next step of PEP 352 (for 2.6) causes raising a string exception to trigger
a TypeError.  Trying to catch a string exception raises a DeprecationWarning.
References to string exceptions has been removed from the docs since they are
now just an error.

iso8859_16.

a with statement; previously, executing code containing a with statement
compiled by the compiler package crashed the interpreter.

needed and all bug reports should go to the bug tracker, not directly to me.
Plus I am not the only person to have edited these files at this point.

generic so that one only has to shift certain values based on whether the week
was specified to start on Monday or Sunday.  Cut out a lot of edge case code
compared to the previous version.  Also broke algorithm out into its own
function (that is private to the module).

Fixes bug #1643943 (thanks Biran Nahas for the report).

which will eventually call SysFreeString to free the BSTR resource.

Patch only fixes new-style classes; classic classes still buggy.

Closes bug #1377858.  Already backported.

frame's thread state. Fixes #1579370.
Will backport.

When running the interpreter in an environment that would cause it to set
stdout/stderr/stdin's encoding, having a sitecustomize that would replace
them with something other than PyFile objects would crash the interpreter.
Fix it by simply ignoring the encoding-setting for non-files.

This could do with a test, but I can think of no maintainable and portable
way to test this bug, short of adding a sitecustomize.py to the buildsystem
and have it always run with it (hmmm....)

directories.

types.

Add /GS- for AMD64 and Itanium builds where missing.

Will backport.