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 3.2.3 and inadvertently dropped in 3.3.0.

stream's read() returns more bytes than requested.

on unsuitable platform/environment.

non-alphabet characters present in the input string to conform a docstring.
Updated the module documentation.

Issue #13772: Restored directory detection of targets in `os.symlink` on Windows, which was temporarily removed in Python 3.2.3 due to an incomplete implementation. The implementation now works even if the symlink is created in a location other than the current directory.

Preliminary patch by Rajagopalasarma Jayakrishnan.

This affects pyexpat and _elementtree. PyExpat_CAPI now exposes a new
function - DefaultUnknownEncodingHandler.

Based on a patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

to interp->modules) and that deleting essential items from the dict
can cause Python to blow up.

Thanks to Terry Reedy for coming up with initial wording and Yogesh
Chaudhari for coming up with a patch using that wording in parallel to
my own patch.

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

Patch by Guilherme Simões.

an internal XML encoding is UTF-8 or US-ASCII.

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

Based on report and patch by Aaron Oakley.