Original patch by Simon Sapin.

This is a comment in the code because only someone reading the code would try
setting fieldnames to None in the first place...

Patch by Jaakko Moisio.

sys.getwindowsversion() and ossaudiodev.setparameters().
Reported by Ned Batchelder.

by inspecting the return value of fwrite().  Based on patches by Jaakko Moisio
and test by Victor Stinner.

acceptable outcomes: success or RuntimeError.  Without being able to
actually hear whether a sound was played, either one could be right, but
any other error would be a failure.

* splitunc() no more returns illegal result for paths with redundant slashes.
* splitunc() now correctly processes the u'İ' character
  (U+0130, LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT ABOVE).
* Added new tests for splitunc().

makefile.

Fixed writing 'ulaw' (lower case) compressed AIFC files.

Fix a crash when a generator is created in a C thread that is destroyed while
the generator is still used. The issue was that a generator contains a frame,
and the frame kept a reference to the Python state of the destroyed C thread.
The crash occurs when a trace function is setup.

fix to Issue #14635 in Python 2.7.4 to be interpreted as milliseconds
instead of seconds when the platform supports select.poll (ie: everywhere).
It is now treated as seconds once again.

shell window is present. (Original patch by Terry Reedy)

This should fix the test_os failure on the AMD64 Windows 7 buildbot.

The stdlib docs for package distribution and building extensions
are rather dated, and that isn't expected to change for 2.7 and
3.3.

The Python Packaging User Guide isn't complete either, but it's
already a much better road map for new users than the existing
stdlib docs.

no more hangs.

Initial patch by Vajrasky Kok.

Backport the fix from pyton 3.x for this issue.

Grafted from c80083ad142d.