This sentence appears as a clarifying note in the HTML docs, and seems
worth having in the docstring since it covers a very common use case
that isn't otherwise obvious.  Thanks to Yongzhi Pan for the suggestion.

Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

Patch by Éric Araujo.

to avoid failing due to the select() file descriptor limit.

Contributed by Akintayo Holder and under the Google contributor agreement.

Patch by Jeremy Kloth.

Issue #15338: skip test_UNC_path when the current user doesn't have enough permissions to access the path.

execfile().

The fix for issue14826 might need to address toBytes and test_url_encoding in
test_cookielib.py before it is brought back in.

Patch contributed by Stephen Thorne.

Fix closes issue # 15033 - Return the proper exitcode for failure when modules are invoked using -m switch. Patch contributed by Jeff Knupp

There was a window between the write and the chmod where the user’s
password would be exposed, depending on default permissions.  Philip
Jenvey’s patch fixes it.

These files are created by some NFS clients a file is edited and removed
concurrently (see added link in doc for more info).  If such a file is
removed between distutils calls listdir and copy, it will get confused.
Other special files are ignored in sdist (namely VCS directories), but
this has to be filtered out earlier.