(Patch by Jon Anglin)

a single `\UXXXXXXXX`, regardless of whether the character is printable
or not.  Also, the "backslashreplace" error handler now joins surrogate
pairs into a single character on UCS-2 builds.

speedups up to 4x (depending on the benchmark).  Mostly ported from
Unladen Swallow; initial patch by Alexandre Vassalotti.

(svn.python.org is sometimes unavailable)

underlying buffer (previously this was only done when deallocating the
memoryview), and gain support for the context management protocol.

Experiment: Let collections.namedtuple() do the work.  This should work now that _collections is pre-built.  The buildbots will tell us shortly.

* pythoncore.vcproj: Fixed indentation
* _multiprocessing.vcproj: Converted ProjectGUID to uppercase. Otherwise,
  VS8 _multiprocessing.vcproj created by vs9to8.py was modified every time
  loads it in VS8 IDE.

* pythoncore.dsp: updated project file
* readme.txt: removed dead link
* tcl852.patch: fixed patch. it was doubled.

Fix issue 9794: adds context manager protocol to socket.socket so that socket.create_connection() can be used with the 'with' statement.

a bug in ascii().

(followup to r84635, suggested by Dave Malcolm).

as wide (UCS4) unicode builds for both the host interpreter (embedded
inside gdb) and the interpreter under test.

* Use the new super() with no arguments.
* Replace pow() call with the ** operator.
* Increase urandom seeding from 16 bytes to 32 bytes.
* Clean-up docstring.

to load the one without the SOABI in the name.

thread-local storage key.

adopt a strategy that makes the fewest calls to random().

Thanks to Konrad Delong for writing a test for upload_docs
--show-response in distutils2, letting me catch my mistake.

is friendlier towards reference cycles.  This change is not normally
visible since an optimized C implementation (_thread._local) is used
instead.

and use it in test_robotparser. Fixes #8574.