directory to sys.path when running from a build directory.  That has
proven to be problematic for several standard library modules with
C extension modules whose builds can fail on some platforms.

when it is run with pythonw.exe.

Documented that Tk.report_callback_exception() is purposed to be overriden in
applications.

character instead of truncate it.  Based on patch by Victor Stinner.

empty string or tuple argument.

On some platforms Tcl memory allocator returns NULL when allocating zero-sized
block of memory.

ckalloc() causes the Tcl interpreter to panic, attemptckalloc() returns NULL
if the memory allocation fails.

Patch from Thomas Kluyver.

First letter no longer is stripped from the "status" key in
the result of Treeview.heading().

a pipe in _ipconfig_getnode().

response is received.  Patch by Martin Panter.

Original patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

support.unlink()

support.rmtree() and support.unlink() in test_zipfile & test_tarfile

check_ssl_verifiy(), so only test_connect_using_sslcontext_verified() is
skipped if smtp.gmail.com cannot be joined, not the whole file.

implementation is broken (ex: skipped on FreeBSD 6.4).

Original patch by Lita Cho.

This platform exposes the function ioctl(FIOCLEX), but calling it fails with
errno is ENOTTY: "Inappropriate ioctl for device". set_inheritable() now falls
back to the slower fcntl() (F_GETFD and then F_SETFD).

Original patch by Josh Lynn.