earlier than the ones in which they were introduced.

  extension implemented flush() was fixed.  Scott also rewrite the
  zlib test suite using the unittest module.  (SF bug #640230 and
  patch #678531.)

Backport candidate I think.

outcome as __slotnames__ on the class.  (Like __slots__, it's not safe
to ask for this as an attribute -- you must look for it in the
specific class's __dict__.  But it must be set using attribute
notation, because __dict__ is a read-only proxy.)

   * Treat major, minor numbers of HTTP version as separate integers
   * Fix errors if version string is "HTTP/1.2.3" or even simply "BLAH".
   * send_error() checks if 'self.command' is a
     HEAD.  However, if there's an error parsing the first line of the
     HTTP request the self.command wasn't set yet; force
     self.command to be initialized to None.

slots even though they can be listed in __slots__.

are actually getting generated.  Add helpered method
ensure_opcode_in_pickle to do a correct job checking for that.  Changed
test_long1(), test_long4(), and test_short_tuples() to use it.

readability.

load_bool():  Now that I know the intended difference between _PUSH and
_APPEND, used the right one.

Pdata_grow():  Squashed out a redundant overflow test.

wasn't used outside the assert (and hence caused a compiler warning
about an unused variable in NDEBUG mode).  The assert wasn't very
useful any more.

_PyLong_NumBits(): moved the calculation of ndigits after asserting
that v != NULL.

huge.  On older Linux systems, the C library's strtod() apparently
gives up before seeing the end of the string when it sees so many
digits that it thinks the result must be Infinity.  (It is wrong, BTW
-- there could be an "e-10000" hiding behind 10,000 digits.)  The
shorter shuge still tests what it's testing, without relying on
strtod() doing a super job.

exception, ResourceDenied.  This is used to distinguish between tests that
are skipped for other reasons (platform support, missing data, etc.) from
those that are skipped because a "resource" has not been enabled.  This
prevents those tests from being reported as unexpected skips for the
platform; those should only be considered unexpected skips if the resource
were enabled.

Rename 'whitespace' global to '_whitespace' -- it's not part of the
public interface.

that are no real tests, because test_b1 and
test_b2 no longer exist. (Spotted by Raymond Hettinger)

[ 676342 ] after using pdb readline does not work correctly

using Michael Stone's patch so the completer functionality of
cmd is only setup between preloop and postloop.

* Correct description of PyFloat_FromString.  While ignored, the pend
  argument still has to be given.
* Typo in PyLong_FromString.

description since while there, it is useless and ignored, according to Tim's
commen.  (PyInt_FromString is also not described, but PyLong_FromString is.
Is the former deprecated?)

cross-pickling tests.