the master should close the slave fd.

Added a test to test_pty.py that reads from the master_fd after doing
a pty.fork(); without the fix it hangs forever instead of raising an
exception.  (<crossing fingers for the buildbots>)

2.5 backport candidate.

Is there really no other way to read the umask than to set it?

Hope this works on Windows...

described, and add a test for it.

2.5 bugfix candidate, maybe; arguably this patch changes the API of
dumbdbm and shouldn't be added in a point-release.

Will backport.

that should really be 'iterable'; this commit changes them.

Did I miss any?  Did I introduce any errors?

Add length checking to single-file mailbox formats: before doing a
flush() on a mailbox, seek to the end and verify its length is
unchanged, raising ExternalClashError if the file's length has
changed.

This fix avoids potential data loss if some other process appends to
the mailbox file after the table of contents has been generated;
instead of overwriting the modified file, you'll get the exception.

I also noticed that the self._lookup() call in self.flush() wasn't
necessary (everything that sets self._pending to True also calls
self.lookup()), and replaced it by an assertion.

2.5 backport candidate.

Needs to be backported.

if a buffer given to frombuf() is invalid.

Updated documentation for findCaller() to indicate that a 3-tuple is now returned, rather than a 2-tuple.

try...finally to ensure the lock is always released.  This could use
the 'with' statement, but the patch uses 'finally'.

2.5 backport candidate.

Also, the text for recvfrom told you to read recv() for an explanation of the
'flags' argument, but recv() just pointed you at the man page.  Copied the
man-page text to recvfrom(), recvfrom_into, recv_into to avoid the pointless
redirection.

I don't have LaTeX on this machine; hope my markup is OK.

   instead of a more general XOR that has to construct a list.

Slightly modified from Maurer's patch: the _strxor() function is no longer
necessary at all.

simple slices.

[Bug #1616726] Fix description of generator.close(); if you raise some random exception, the exception is raised and doesn't trigger a RuntimeError

2. Duplicate some old entries from Python's NEWS to IDLE's NEWS.txt

M    AutoCompleteWindow.py
M    NEWS.txt

manager that protects warnings.filter from being modified once the context is
exited.