Patch by Guilherme Simões.

Add links to encoders and decoders for binary-to-binary codecs.

This has come up often enough now on the tracker that it deserves a FAQ entry.

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.