- lots of general cleanup

in the last revison

(SF patch #545480).

literally from inet_pton.

to migrate.

os.walk() generator.

This makes the test pass on Windows again (and on other platforms
that don't have these).

mode.

XXX I'm not convinced that this is the right solution -- arguably,
on Windows, the _fileobject class should honor the mode argument
and do newline translation.  But it's never done that so I think
there's no urgent need to fix this today.

due to using a single module-level namespace where multiple namespaces
were used before.

There *really* need to be tests for the sniffer stuff.  This could
have been avoided.

Skip, please review, and add sniffer tests!

should go in test_urllibnet.py .

Still need to write tests for _urlopener usage and urlretrieve.

seems much easier to use.  Code, docs, NEWS, and additions to test_os.py
(testing this sucker is a bitch!).

- The socket module now provides the functions inet_pton and inet_ntop
  for converting between string and packed representation of IP addresses.
  See SF patch #658327.

This still needs a bit of work in the doc area, because it is not
available on all platforms (especially not on Windows).

RuntimeError.

functions with different signatures.

Let netrc handle entries with login fields (mail servers for instance)
by having login default to ''.

Backport candidate.

use cStringIO if available.

argument function is available on the current platform

particular resources