the recent change of the default value for context.Emax.

a multiprocessing Client or Listener with an AF_PIPE type address under
non-Windows platforms.  Patch by Popa Claudiu.

a multiprocessing Client or Listener with an AF_PIPE type address under
non-Windows platforms.  Patch by Popa Claudiu.

I will now continue investigating the cause of the ref-leak, but I wanted
to remove the test so that the refcount test in the buildbots could be clean.
The whole change (adding GC to Element) is not reverted because it improved
the situation (GC works for immediate cycles) and didn't cause regressions
(the test is new and was added together with the fix).

Patch by Suman Saha.

Patch by Suman Saha.

of magnitude". Provide link to the benchmarks.

lzma module.  (Patch by Nicholas Riley)

Patch by sbt.

Patch by Matt Joiner.

Patch by Matt Joiner.

Patch by Matt Joiner.

Patch by Matt Joiner.

These functions are not documnted, so no documentation update.

Without this fix, both 2.7 and 3.x would always point to the "current"
docs...which means that before this fix python 3.2 'help' pointed to the 2.7
tutorial.