Preliminary patch by Rajagopalasarma Jayakrishnan.

OS X 10.8 systems because the Apple-deprecated QuickDraw headers have
been removed from Xcode 4.  Skip building it in this case.

This helps in handling certain types invalid urls in a conservative manner.

is overriden with the CC environment variable, use the new compiler as
the default for linking if LDSHARED is not also overriden.  This restores
Distutils behavior introduced in 2.7.3 and inadvertently dropped in 2.7.4.

Without this patch socket.getaddrinfo crashed when called
with some unusual argument combinations.

Patch by Guilherme Simões.

Add links to encoders and decoders for binary-to-binary codecs.

This has come up often enough now on the tracker that it deserves a FAQ entry.

characters() and ignorableWhitespace() methods.  Original patch by Sebastian
Ortiz Vasquez.

(Backported from 3.x by Jan Duzinkiewicz.)

it left off.  Patch by Michael Birtwell.

Patch by Till Maas.

doesn't support non-ASCII filenames.

(_testcapi isn't Py_ssize_t-clean, the "s#" code should use an int for length)