I inverted some of the conditionals to reduce indent levels.  Hopefully
this makes it a little easier to read.

This code caused the leak:

    class FixedOffset(datetime.tzinfo):
        def tzname(self, dt): return "UTC"

    datetime.time(12, 47, tzinfo=FixedOffset()).strftime('%Z')

This code is very tricky and I'm not positive it works.  However,
it neither crashes nor leaks.

2. PyShell: shell isn't working due to encoding issues.  Temporarily direct
   exceptions to the terminal.  Also, trap exceptions occurring during write()
   instead of passing.

Checking (2)  in temporarily to aid finding the encoding problem in
IOBinding.py

when one test fails and you want to start running from that point onwards.

Move docs for: long -> int, unichr -> chr, unicode -> str.

Also simplify logic a bit in fp_setreadl.

real files.  This code assumed that fileno() would succeed which wasn't
the case.

problems.

Always set LC_CTYPE on interpreter startup.
Add device_encoding function.

the underlying storage, and yet provide string keys.

some cleanup to do on this.  Particularly in Python/traceback.c with
getting rid of the getattr if possible and Demo/*metaclasses/Enum.py.

of non-existant text widget 'marks', it seems.

causes a _tkinter error in py3k.

a bogus (tuple) value.  This should fix the "make install" issue Neal
reported.

filenames that cannot be represented that way.

won't go away, as the exception object holds another reference).