Split a common setUp/tearDown into the appropriate parts.

much larger than operand `b`.  Patch by Andrew Bennetts.

Issue 9873: the URL parsing functions now accept ASCII encoded byte sequences in addition to character strings

Skip the test if encoding fails.

Issue 10220: switch to using string constants rather than integers for inspect.getgeneratorstate() return values and make debugging friendly str() and repr() for generator states a requirement in the test suite

Issue 10586: change the new functools.lru_cache implementation to expose the maximum and current cache sizes through the public statistics API. This API is now a single function that returns a named tuple.

Approved by Raymond Hettinger.