and test_support.run_classtests() into run_unittest()
and use it wherever possible.

Also don't use "from test.test_support import ...", but
"from test import test_support" in a few spots.

From SF patch #662807.

mode.

XXX I'm not convinced that this is the right solution -- arguably,
on Windows, the _fileobject class should honor the mode argument
and do newline translation.  But it's never done that so I think
there's no urgent need to fix this today.

should go in test_urllibnet.py .

Still need to write tests for _urlopener usage and urlretrieve.

imports e.g. test_support must do so using an absolute package name
such as "import test.test_support" or "from test import test_support".

This also updates the README in Lib/test, and gets rid of the
duplicate data dirctory in Lib/test/data (replaced by
Lib/email/test/data).

Now Tim and Jack can have at it. :)

corresponding changes were made to its std test.

change the test to give a clue about *where* it's failing.

and replaces them with a new API verify(). As a result the regression
suite will also perform its tests in optimization mode.

Written by Marc-Andre Lemburg. Copyright assigned to Guido van Rossum.

character according to RFC 2396. Add some text to quote doc string
that explains the quoting rules better.

This closes SF Bug #114427.

Add _fast_quote operation that uses a dictionary instead of a list
when the standard set of safe characters is used.

applies patch #101369 by Moshe Zadke
use explicit list of always safe characters instead of string.letters
add test case