one of the test locales cannot be set.

locale changed but not used during the function call it was recreated during.

The test in this checkin is untested (OS X does not have the proper locale
support for me to test), although the fix for the bug this deals with
was tested by the OP (#1290505).  Once the buildbots verify the test at least
doesn't fail it becomes a backport candidate.

If MSVCCompiler.initialize() was called multiple times, the path
would get duplicated.  On Windows, this is a problem because the
path is limited to 4k.  There's no benefit in adding a path multiple
times, so prevent that from occuring.  We also normalize the path
before checking for duplicates so things like /a and /a/ won't both
be stored.

Will backport.

returned by python-config if Python was built with --enable-shared
because that prevented the shared library from being used.

the 2.5.0 release.

instantiating the class. Docs and tests are updated.

test_telnetlib.py with a basic test and timeout ones.
Docs are also updated.

the C lib's clock() is used, but it must be divided by CLOCKS_PER_SEC
as for the POSIX implementation (thanks to #pypy).

Consolidate patches #1690164, 1683397, and 1690169, all of which refactor XML-related test suites. The patches are applied together because they use a common output/xmltests file.
Thanks to Jerry Seutter for all three patches.

the test_smtplib.py file, with a basic test and the timeout
ones. Docs are updated too.

socket.recvfrom, which caused an ugly crash.

test_poplib.py file with a basic test and the timeout
ones. Docs are also updated.

the ftplib tests.

file to test the ftp lib (right now I included a basic test, the timeout
one, and nothing else).

for threading and socket serving.

regression tests.

Python 2.5 added support for explicit relative import statements and
yield expressions, which were missing in the manual.
Also fix grammar productions that used the names from the Grammar file,
markup that broke the generated grammar.txt, and wrap some lines that
broke the pdf output.  Will backport.