Also fixes
- Issue #1526: Allow more than 64k files to be added to Zip64 file.

- Issue #1746: Correct handling of zipfile archive comments (previously
  archives with comments over 4k were flagged as invalid). Allow writing
  Zip files with archives by setting the 'comment' attribute of a ZipFile.

the GIL must be re-acquired in the callback function

Closes issue #3261. THankjs Leo Soto for the bug report.

added a '(' when completed.

that the behaviour of Decimal doesn't change if/when re.UNICODE becomes
assumed in Python 3.0.

Also add a check that alternative Unicode digits (e.g. u'\N{FULLWIDTH
DIGIT ONE}') are *not* accepted in a numeric string.

* Deprecate urllib.urlopen() in favor of urllib2.urlopen() for 3.0.
* Update docs to mention split/rename of the module and deprecation of
  urlopen().

Changes to lib2to3 are in a separate commit. Work is for issue #2885.

whose write() method installs another sys.stdout.

Will backport.

When a thread touches such an object for the first time, a new thread-local __dict__ is created,
and the __init__ method is run.
But a thread switch can occur here; if the other thread touches the same object, it installs another
__dict__; when the first thread resumes, it updates the dictionary of the second...

This is the deep cause of the failures in test_multiprocessing involving "managers" objects.

Also a 2.5 backport candidate.

Updated to reflect change in logging.config to remove out-of-date comment in _install_handlers and the use of issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.

used issubclass in place of equality comparison of classes.

FreeBSD's P1003.1b semaphore support is highly experimental and
it's disabled by default.  Even if a user loads the experimental
kernel module manually, _multiprocessing doesn't work correctly due
to several known incompatibilities around sem_unlink and sem_getvalue,
yet.

to configure and pyconfig.h.in.