if (a) we are building Python itself and (b) no one previously defined them

smtpd.DebuggingServer. Change to use global host & port number
variables. Modified the 'server' to take a string to send back in
order to vary test server responses. Added a test for the reaction of
smtplib.SMTP to a non-200 HELO response. [GSoC - Alan McIntyre]

Try to get rid of spurious failure in test_resource on the Debian buildbots by changing the file size limit before attempting to close the file

Fix an incompatibility between the -i and -m command line switches as reported on python-dev by PJE - runpy.run_module now leaves any changes it makes to the sys module intact after the function terminates

tests
Restore Python 2.4 ImportError when attempting to execute a package
(as imports cannot be guaranteed to work properly if you try it)

of poll support in the select module (since this is the only case in
which readwrite can be called). [GSoC - Alan McIntyre]

backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size, and
PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.

socket is ready to be read from before attempting a read (this
prevents an error 10035 on some Windows platforms). [GSoC - Alan
McIntyre]

(fixes SF bug #1754453).

(Slightly tweaked for style and refcounts.)

to server & client, and by adding asyncore.close_all calls in
tearDown. Also choose correct expected logging results based on the
value of __debug__  [Alan McIntyre - GSoC]

a non documented function that appers to uses resources
not present in Windows.

_exception, readwrite, closeall, compact_traceback; and for classes
dispatcher, dispatcher_with_send, and file_wrapper.
[Alan McIntyre - GSoC]

The Maildir specification doesn't seem to say anything about this
situation, and it can happen if you're keeping a Maildir mailbox in
Subversion (.svn directories) or some similar system.  The patch just
ignores directories in the cur/, new/, tmp/ folders.

[ 1752723 ] email.message_from_string: initial line gets discarded

I added a test to assert that when the first line of text passed to
message_from_string() contains a leading space, the message ends up with the
appropriate FirstHeaderLineIsContinuationDefect on its defects list.

The bug is invalid.

Py_DECREF'd.

of c_char_p and c_wchar_p has changed as a sideeffect.

adds little value, but has a large problem on OS X, as explained in
SF# 1581906.

the methods and docstring after the type creation does not work, they
must be in the dictionary before creating the type.

and the escape function. Check that marshalling recursive sequences &
dicts raises TypeError. Check that marshalling out-of-range ints
raises OverflowError [Alan McIntyre - GSoC]

  The KeyError raised by Zipfile.getinfo for nonexistent names now has
  a descriptive message.

Python tutorial.