was getting complaints from pychecker.)

stated in http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html as well.

module.

Will backport to release25-maint.

Bug #1627575: Added _open() method to FileHandler which can be used to reopen files. The FileHandler instance now saves the encoding (which can be None) in an attribute called "encoding".

Bare except clause removed from LogRecord.__init__. Now, only ValueError, TypeError and AttributeError are trapped.
(SF #411881)

Bare except clause removed from SocketHandler.createSocket(). Now, only socket.error is trapped.
(SF #411881)

Re-implemented fix for #1531862 once again, in a way that works with Python 2.2. Fixes bug #1603424.

'void' instead of just a set of empty parentheses.

[Patch #1520904] Fix bsddb tests to write to the temp directory instead of the Lib/bsddb/test directory

and the module dict has been cleared already and some object
raises a warning (like in a __del__).

Will backport.

(will backport to 2.5)

to avoid relying on atexit.
Will backport to 2.5.

temporarily set or unset environment variables.

Will backport to 2.5.

[Rest of patch #1182394] Add ._current() method so that we can use the written-in-C .hexdigest() method

constant; this allows changing it in a subclass.  To accommodate this,
copy() now uses __class__.  Also add some text to a comment.

certain conditions.

Will backport to 2.5.

work correctly together with readline().

Will backport to 2.5.

Darn; this test works when you run test_pty.py directly, but fails when regrtest runs it (the os.read() raises os.error).  I can't figure out the cause, so am commenting out the test.