in latin_1, but Python incorrectly assumes it is in UTF-8 format

Will backport.

from the PyPy project as well as the SF bug #1295909.

segfault when a class contain a non-list value in the (undocumented)
special attribute __slotnames__.

FreeBSD 5.3 and later versions which got thread-safe getaddrinfo(3).
(Reported by Maxim Sobolev)

1138653.

    http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-July/026876.html

SF #1297059, doc incorrect return type for search() method.  (There is a description of returned values at the top, so just remove the sentance and correct an example.)

(forward port revision 1.10.4.1)

returns in cStringIO.c.  Thanks to Andrew Bennetts.

This must be a backport candidate.

than the modification time. Changed the SetDates test to accomodate.

Backport candidate.

Fix segfault.  I tried to write a test, but it wouldn't crash
when running regrtest.  This really should have some sort of test.

Should definitely be backported.

as &buffer, &size and allocated by the called function.

causing the profiler to crash on an AssertionError if the same Python
function catches multiple exceptions from C functions.

  represented as a C int, raise OverflowError.

(Forward port from 2.4.2; the patch to classobject.c was already in
but needed a correction in the error message text.)

with an exception currently set!

Py_{BEGIN,END}_ALLOW_THREADS.

  to get the correct encoding.

- Patch #1166938: locale.py: Parse LANGUAGE as a colon separated list of
  languages.

containing a value that doesn't fit in a C int, raise OverflowError
rather than truncating silently (and having 50% chance of hitting the
"it should be >= 0" error).

issues.  See bug #1112856.

Will backport to Python 2.4.

Will backport to Python 2.4.