Issue #17918: When using SSLSocket.accept(), if the SSL handshake failed on the new socket, the socket would linger indefinitely.
Thanks to Peter Saveliev for reporting.

Issue #17289: The readline module now plays nicer with external modules or applications changing the rl_completer_word_break_characters global variable.
Initial patch by Bradley Froehle.

platforms. Patch by Federico Schwindt.

Putting *n* after the *iterable* matches the signature of other itertools
and recipes.  Also, it reads better.

Suggested by Ezio Melotti.

libffi to 3.0.13.  (i'm not sure if it is needed anymore but see
issue 10309 for details which makes no mention of upstream)

Behavior confirmation and initial patch by Jessica McKellar.

such as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4.

This bug was already fixed in issue14572 for 2.7 only and then it was
backported back from 3.3 in issue17073.

Without this changeset plistlib would write empty tags for plistlib.Data
objects in deeply nested datastructures.

Fixes #17353

condition variable.  Original patch by Thomas Rachel.

Patch by Jeremy Kloth.

registry does not grow exponentially with generation of process.