Patch by Dylan Sarber.

using --with-system-expat working when the system expat does not have
salted hash support.

  table internal to the pyexpat module's copy of the expat library to avoid a
  denial of service due to hash collisions.  Patch by David Malcolm with some
  modifications by the expat project.

- change references from configure.in to configure.ac

in the hash table internal to the pyexpat module's copy of the expat
library to avoid a denial of service due to hash collisions.
Patch by David Malcolm with some modifications by the expat project.

Patch by Roger Serwy.

Issue #14252: Fix subprocess.Popen.terminate() to not raise an error under Windows when the child process has already exited.

Moved symlink support into its own module. Ported can_symlink from Python 3.2, skipping symlink test when it cannot be invoked (such as when the symlink privilege is not present).

release of 2.6 for 2012.

    http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/48705250232c
    changeset:   75187:48705250232c
    branch:      2.7
    parent:      75184:9a1d902714ae
    user:        Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
    date:        Wed Feb 22 22:16:25 2012 +0100

    changeset:   75153:9b7c6dd19e25
    branch:      2.7
    parent:      75151:b1a02c17b327
    user:        Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
    date:        Tue Feb 21 22:02:04 2012 +0100
    files:       Lib/test/test_os.py

    changeset:   75165:780008020c40
    user:        Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
    date:        Wed Feb 22 03:33:56 2012 +0100
    summary:     Fix (presumably) test_hash under big-endian systems (PPC).

have gotten randomized.