do not contain null bytes.

NULL bytes it would cause the database all sorts of problems in the future
leading to very strange random failures and corrupt dbtables.bsdTableDb dbs.

keyword argument whenever possible to avoid bugs and confusion.  (dbtables.py
line 447 self.db.get using txn as a non-keyword was an actual bug due to this)

it closes itself.  When the stream is read in several calls to read(n),
it should behave in the same way if HTTPConnection knows where the end
of the stream is (through self.length).  Added a test case for this
behaviour.

Introduce overflow checking into list_inplace_repeat.

Backport candidate, possibly.

* so that they are next to each other.

rendered for parameters it just showed up as ``:const:`None` `` in the output.

per discussion in issue 1031213.

This should make the tests more robust at the expense of allowing
tests to be sloppier by not requiring them to cleanup after themselves.
(It will legitamitely help when running two test suites simultaneously
or if another process is already using one of the predefined ports.)

Also simplifies (slightLy) the exception handling elsewhere.

was useless due to inverted logic.  Also adds a test case for RECNO dbs
to test_dbshelve.

Will backport to 2.5.

would be accessed.

Will backport.

Also fix a memory leak.

being initialized.  (gcc warning and Coverity 202)

operating system version.  This allows to use ctypes when Python
was configured with --disable-toolbox-glue.

Just move over to the public API names.

Closes issue1238.

Patch 1225 Tal Einat modified from IDLE-Spoon.