nests test.test_support.TransientResource context managers that capture
exceptions raised when the Internet connection is flaky.

Initially using in test_socket_ssl but should probably be expanded to cover any
test that should not raise the captured exceptions if the Internet connection
works.

Bug #742342: make Python stop segfaulting on infinitely-recursive reload()s. Fixed by patch #922167.
Will backport.

case, even when converting the value to a string failed.

Patch #15916658: implement the __dir__() special function lookup in PyObject_Dir.

Had to change a few bits of the patch because classobjs and __methods__ are still
in Py2.6.

that given the inputs in these tests Excel does indeed produce the output
these tests expect.  Document that for future confused folks.

display name of an email address, e.g.

Foo
\tBar <foo@example.com>

Test case added by Barry.

stable FTP.
Will backport.

Patch #1192590: Fix pdb's "ignore" and "condition" commands so they trap the IndexError caused by passing in an invalid breakpoint number.
Will backport.

__dict__ and __weakref__ are removed from the slots tuple earlier
in the code, in the loop that mangles slot names. Will backport.

Patch #1599845: Add an option to disable the implicit calls to server_bind() and server_activate() in the constructors for TCPServer, SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer.

Update to use predominant style of spaces around = in args list
and print to stderr if debugging.

Bug #1531963: Make SocketServer.TCPServer's server_address always be equal to calling getsockname() on the server's socket.
Will backport.

* Unlink test files before and after each test; hopefully this will cut down on recent buildbot failures in test_islink.
* Drop safe_remove() in favor of test_support.unlink().
* Fix the indentation of test_samefile so that it runs.

Python would crash instead of raising an error.

The crash was caused by a section of code that should have been
removed long ago, at that time ctypes had other ways to pass
parameters to function calls.

Patch #1491866: change the complex() constructor to allow parthensized forms. This means complex(repr(x)) now works instead of raising a ValueError.

returned string up to the first NUL character.

Bug #1629566: clarify the docs on the return values of parsedate() and parsedate_tz() in email.utils and rfc822.

surround calls to resources that may or may not be available.  Specifying the
expected exception and attributes to be raised if the resource is not available
prevents overly broad catching of exceptions.

This is meant to help suppress spurious failures by raising
test.test_support.ResourceDenied if the exception matches.  It would probably
be good to go through the various network tests and surround the calls to catch
connection timeouts (as done with test_socket_ssl in this commit).

Backported r54226 from p3yk: Move test_unittest, test_doctest and test_doctest2 higher up in the testing order.