Patch by Christian Hudon.

Patch by Caelyn McAulay.

Neither Caelyn nor I could find any cases in 2.7 or 3.4/5 where an
operation on a closed stream raised IOError; generally the C
implementations have a macro to check for the stream being closed, and
these macros all raised ValueError.  If we find any, a new bug should
be opened.

Patch by Rafael Mejia.

Closes issue 21239. unittest.mock.patch.stopall() did not work deterministically when the same name was patched multiple times.

Capture threads in the setUpModule and cleanup threads in the tearDownModule.

Passing name keyword argument to mock.create_autospec now works.

  are built as builtins.

Issue #21209.

Closed issue #8931: Make alternate formatting for 'c' raise an exception. Patch by Torsten Landschoff.

Closes issue #21209.

Normally an SMTP server will return an error, and smtplib will then issue an
RSET to return the connection to the known starting state.  Some servers,
however, disconnect after issuing certain errors.  When we issue the RSET,
this would result in raising an SMTPServerDisconnected error, *instead* of
returning the error code the user of the library was expecting.  This fix
makes the internal RSET calls ignore the disconnection so that the error code
is returned.  The user of the library will then get the SMTPServerDisconnected
error the next time they try to talk to the server.

Patch by Kushal Das.

Fixes issue20307.  No Misc/NEWS entry because frankly this is an
esoteric platform for anyone to be figuring out how to cross compile
CPython for.

Patch by Sam Lucidi.

Issue #7776: Fix ``Host:'' header and reconnection when using http.client.HTTPConnection.set_tunnel().

Patch by Nikolaus Rath.