Issue #6472: The xml.etree package is updated to ElementTree 1.3.  The cElementTree module is updated too.

the #7774 bug.

retrieve the absolute Python path even if argv[0] has been set to a non
existent program name.

set to an non existent program name and Python is unable to retrieve the real
program name.

Fix also sysconfig: if sys.executable is an empty string, use the current
working directory.

It does not fix #7774.

Copy/paste failure :-)

(SIGINT). If an error occurs while importing the site module, the error is
printed and Python exits. Initialize the GIL before importing the site
module.

of a custom class with __slots__.  This simplifies the
code a bit, reduces memory consumption, improves speed,
and eliminates the need for weak reference proxies.

Provides better tooltips and looks better in help().

* Show both the decorator and regular form for assertRaises()
* Use assertTrue() instead of assertIn() to teach useful minimal subset of the API

deployment target is 10.4, libedit on 10.4 is too broken.

base64 transfer-encoded payload *after* decoding it; it no longer does.
email had a special method in utils, _bdecode, specifically to do this,
so it must have served a purpose at some point, yet it is clearly wrong
per RFC.  Fixed with Barry's approval, but no backport.  Email package
minor version number is bumped, now version 4.0.1.

Patch by Joaquin Cuenca Abela.

It should fix transient failures on test_multiprocessing.

Fix for potentials errors in constructing unittest failure messages. Plus skipped test methods no longer run setUp and tearDown (Issue 8059)