characters() and ignorableWhitespace() methods.  Original patch by Sebastian
Ortiz Vasquez.

(Backported from 3.x by Jan Duzinkiewicz.)

it left off.  Patch by Michael Birtwell.

Patch by Till Maas.

doesn't support non-ASCII filenames.

(_testcapi isn't Py_ssize_t-clean, the "s#" code should use an int for length)

Issue #17918: When using SSLSocket.accept(), if the SSL handshake failed on the new socket, the socket would linger indefinitely.
Thanks to Peter Saveliev for reporting.

Issue #17289: The readline module now plays nicer with external modules or applications changing the rl_completer_word_break_characters global variable.
Initial patch by Bradley Froehle.

platforms. Patch by Federico Schwindt.

Putting *n* after the *iterable* matches the signature of other itertools
and recipes.  Also, it reads better.

Suggested by Ezio Melotti.