a new optional timeout parameter, and a versionadded flag to
the socket.create_connection function.

or "K" codes.

Will backport

to disable it and only import msvccompiler on Windows since that's
the only place it can work anyways.

Will backport.

Move an import in mworkscompiler so that this module can be imported on
any platform.  Hopefully this works on all platforms.

This also catches another condition that can overflow.

Will backport.

modules in the ReleaseAMD64 configuration because they do not compile.

components are built yet, and 'kill_python' is disabled).

Will backport to 2.5.

a large width is passed on 32-bit platforms.  Found by Google.

It would be good for people to review this especially carefully and verify
I don't have an off by one error and there is no other way to cause overflow.

Closes [1700455].

with small modifications.

Will backport to 2.5.

Backport from py3k rev. 55708 by Guido.

with tests in test_urllib2net.py (must have network resource
enabled to execute them). Also modified test_urllib2.py because
testing mock classes must take it into acount. Docs are also
updated.

using the timeout received in connection time.

Patch #1731049: make threading.py use a proper "raise" when checking internal state, rather than assert statements (which get stripped out by -O).

reads a file that ends with incomplete sequence and sizehint argument
for .read() is specified.

from Linux's.  Just fix the build for now but the code doesn't
support the complete capability of HCI on FreeBSD yet.