As of 2.7.8, the 32-bit-only installer will support OS X 10.5
and later systems as is currently done for Python 3.x installers.

For 2.7.7 only, we will provide three installers:
the legacy deprecated 10.3+ 32-bit-only format;
the newer 10.5+ 32-bit-only format;
and the unchanged 10.6+ 64-/32-bit format.

Although binary installers will no longer be available from
python.org as of 2.7.8, it will still be possible to build from
source on 10.3.9 and 10.4 systems if necessary.

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

Patch by Nikolaus Rath.

Berker Peksag (already present in Misc/ACKS). The issue was reported by Brad
Aylsworth.

Patch written by Brad Aylsworth.

Patch by Akira.

to fully cover its state space.

* Repair the broken link to norobots-rfc.txt.

* HTTP response codes >= 500 treated as a failed read rather than as a not
found.  Not found means that we can assume the entire site is allowed.  A 5xx
server error tells us nothing.

* A successful read() or parse() updates the mtime (which is defined to be "the
  time the robots.txt file was last fetched").

* The can_fetch() method returns False unless we've had a read() with a 2xx or
4xx response.  This avoids false positives in the case where a user calls
can_fetch() before calling read().

* I don't see any easy way to test this patch without hitting internet
resources that might change or without use of mock objects that wouldn't
provide must reassurance.

consolidating and improving human-validated tests of Idle. Change other files
as needed to work with htest.  Running the module as __main__ runs all tests.

Backport from Alex Gaynor.

This brings the option to install Python on the Windows Path.
Committed per Benjamin Peterson's approval on python-dev.

Patch by Brian Kearns.

This makes it match the new example below, and allows Sphinx's
"hide the prompts and output" feature to work.

overrides a ``return`` in the ``try`` suite.

test_support._is_gui_available is now defined the same way on every
platform, and now includes the Windows-specific check that had been in the
Windows version of _is_gui_available and the OSX-specific check that was
in runtktests.check_tk_availability.  Also, every platform checks whether
Tk can be instantiated (if the platform-specific checks passed).

Issue #21321: itertools.islice() now releases the reference to the source iterator when the slice is exhausted.

Patch by Anton Afanasyev.

Issue #9291 Do not attempt to re-encode mimetype data read from registry in ANSI mode. Initial patches by Dmitry Jemerov & Vladimir Iofik

Issue21349 Passing a memoryview to _winreg.SetValueEx now correctly raises a TypeError where it previously crashed the interpreter. Patch by Brian Kearns

from 8.5.2 to 8.5.15.