Patch by Gareth Rees.

Update current tests that use old pattern with assertRaises
to make them more maintainable.

functools.partial objects.

Patch by Dave Sawyer.

* Connection.execute* methods don't create intermediate cursor objects
* Fix description of seq_of_parameters parameter
* Clarify that Warning is sqlite3.Warning
* sql_script parameter of Cursor.executescript() doesn't accept bytes
* Add missing tests
* Fix various markup errors

Initial patch by Dave Sawyer.

Initial patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

function with generalized unpacking (PEP 448) and conflicting keyword names
could cause undefined behavior.

Based on patches by Konstantin Molchanov and Neil Girdhar.

Patch by James Pickering.

Patch by Jason Fried.

It was documented since 07a5610bae9d.

Initial patch by Roger Luethi.