Backported from trunk.

places instead of 'sequence'.

Updated documentation for findCaller() to indicate that a 3-tuple is now returned, rather than a 2-tuple.

 (backport from rev. 52996)

to be created is already there.
 (backport from rev. 52972)

English output.
 (backport from rev. 52970)

ctypes.util.find_library("m") so that we can see if it works on the
buildbots.

rev 52964 sf 1576657 KeyError unpacks tuple arguments
rev 52963 sf 1456209 obscure resizing vulnerability
rev 52962 redundant calls to PyObject_Hash()

remove reference to the old regex module in the former's doc.
 (backport from rev. 52951)

 (backport from rev. 52938)

Patch #1608758
(backport from r52917)

the sock_addr_t storage out of the socket object.

The contents of ffi_darwin.c must be compiled unless __APPLE__ is
defined and __ppc__ is not.

Backport from trunk.

 (backport from rev. 52850)

 (backport from rev. 52845)

Backport from trunk.

 (backport from rev. 52833)

Change decode() so that it works with a buffer (i.e. unicode(..., 'utf-8-sig'))
SF bug #1601501.

and _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.

Bug #1599782: Fix segfault on bsddb.db.DB().type().

The problem is that _DB_get_type() can't be called without the GIL
because it calls a bunch of PyErr_* APIs when an error occurs.
There were no other cases in this file that it was called without the GIL.
Removing the BEGIN/END THREAD around _DB_get_type() made everything work.