on OS X.  Original patch by André Freitas.

positives with the -flto option (gcc >= 4.9.0 and clang).

object now always allocates place for trailing null byte and it's buffer now
is always null-terminated.

functions of the audioop module.  Fixed SystemError when the state is not a
tuple.  Fixed possible memory leak.

gzip.open() supports context management protocol in Python 2, so it's better to
use it in the examples section.

Patch by Jakub Kadlčík.

Issue #23684: Clarify the return value of the scheme attribute of ParseResult and SplitResult objects.

Patch by Martin Panter.

Based on patch by Martin Panter.

I would just outright delete them, but the readme in PCbuild recommended
their use, so I figure it would be nice to leave them there for a while.

It now recommends PCbuild/get_externals.bat instead of the scripts in
Tools/buildbot.

Patch by Jaivish Kothari.

and set comparisions.  Patch by Gareth Rees.

This is mostly a backport of issue #21907, but also includes a few
extras necessary to make the bulidbot scripts as thin as possible.