#9442: do not document a specific format for sys.version; rather refer to version_info and the platform module.

#9440: Remove borderline test case that fails based on unpredictable conditions such as compiler flags.

I removed the implicit conversion from str to bytes.

Copy Sun-specific inclusion of <alloca.h> from 2.7 maint to trunk; it seems to not have been merged to py3k.

Make urllib tests pass for now.  Will figure out what the correct semantics should be after release.

The concrete types are for internal use (registration).
We are not trying to resurrect the types module
in collections.

Part of #7245: when KeyboardInterrupt is raised while defining commands, restore the old commands instead of producing a traceback.

Show the traceback line numbers as well as the current line numbers if an exception is being debugged.  Courtesy of pdb++ by Antonio Cuni.  Also document -> and >> markers for "list".