tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user and group ids on
extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id of the current user
(i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership information was lost. (Patch
by Sebastien Luttringer)

#12888: Fix a bug in HTMLParser.unescape that prevented it to escape more than 128 entities.  Patch by Peter Otten.

a string.

Suggested by Terry J. Reedy in #12298.

mapped to POSIX errno ENOTDIR (previously EINVAL).

Text adapted from the PEP.  Addition requested by Terry J. Reedy on
2011-02-23 on python-dev.

This was discussed some months ago on python-dev.  Having tons of links
to the definition of True would be annoying, contrary to links to e.g.
the nonlocal or with statements doc.

This is a temporary kludge and all is well in 3.3.

Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.

some functions like file.write().

the C pickle implementation.

(more than 2**31 items).  Instead, in most cases, an OverflowError is raised.