this fixes the bsddb db associate tests when compiled against
BerkeleyDB 3.3 thru 4.1.  4.2 thru 4.4 already passed and still
pass.

specifications, raises IOErrors when proxies for unsupported protocols
are defined, and uses the https proxy on https redirections.

way back thru 3.2).  This should be backported to the release24-maint
branch.

- The path separator isn't "/" on Windows.

- Leaving behind a read-only file causes cascades
  of bogus failures on Windows.

Misc. changes, including documenting the ability to specify a class attribute in Formatter configuration. Contributed by Shane Hathaway.

Can/should this be backported?

loses information:

    OverflowError: regular expression code size limit exceeded

Otherwise the compiled code is gibberish, possibly leading at
least to wrong results or (as reported on c.l.py) internal
sre errors at match time.

I'm not sure how to test this.  SRE_CODE is a 2-byte type on
my box, and it's easy to create a regexp that causes the new
exception to trigger here.  But it may be a 4-byte type on
other boxes, and creating a regexp large enough to trigger
problems there would be pretty crazy.

Bugfix candidate.

Added a test for the ability to specify a class attribute in Formatter configuration. Contributed by Shane Hathaway.

Added a test for the ability to specify a class attribute in Formatter configuration. Contributed by Shane Hathaway.

Added the ability to specify a class attribute in Formatter configuration. Contributed by Shane Hathaway.