Add a hack (originally devised in a slightly different form by Thomas Wouters)
to prevent spurious tracebacks when a daemon thread's cleanup happens to wake
up when the world around it has already been destroyed.

This also backports other small changes to this file, essentially making
it identical to the trunk version.

permissions and times.

(backport from r59712)

Regular Expression inline flags not handled correctly for some unicode
characters.

reveals that a lot more are missing.  If you checked anything into the
2.5.2 branch without updating Misc/NEWS, please correct your mistake!

ctypes 1.0.3 will be also be released).

GCC versions may optimize away overflow buffer overflow checks without
this option!  Thanks to Ismail Donmez.  No thanks to the GCC devs.

Fix issue #1313119.

This patch doesn't remove the wrappers for OSADebug* API's but only defines
them when configure detects that the API's are present in the system's
header files.

merge -r59315:59316 from py3k: Fix issue #1553: An errornous __length_hint__ can make list() raise a SystemError

the start.

(backport from r59260)

PyArgs_ParseTuple t# and w# formats truncated the lengths to 32bit.

 (backport from rev. 59224)

  statement recompilation with no bound parameters lead to a segfault
- Backported a fix necessary because of an SQLite API change in version 3.5.
  This prevents segfaults when executing empty queries, like our test suite
  does.

attribute of an empty cell object.  Now a ValueError is raised.

Backport of r59170.

head.

A test that should test for osx >= 10.4.0 actually tested for os versions <= 10.4. The end result is that
a universal ("fat") build will claim to be a single-architecture on on OSX 10.5 (Leopard).

This patch fixes this issue.

on 64-bit Windows systems.