accepting bytes, bytearrays, and buffers is now consistent with
both the documentation and the implementation.

module binaries, with a platform triple of just "darwin", resulting in
file names like:

    _ssl.cpython-35m-darwin.so

rather than just _ssl.so as previously.

Instead of attempting to encode differences in CPU architecture and OS X
deployment targets in the file name as is done on other platforms,
these continue to be managed by the use of Apple multi-architecture
("fat") files, by the system dynamic loader, and by logic in higher-levels
like sysconfig.get_platform() and pip.

Patch by Demian Brecht.

Patch by Arnon Yaari.

  the architecture triplet in the extension name, to make it easy to test builds
  for different ABIs in the same working tree.

more consistent API than the existing call* functions.
(enhancement from issue 23342)

end lines from the code object, fixing an issue when a lambda function is
used as decorator argument.  Patch by Thomas Ballinger.

Patch by Jamiel Almeida.

Patch by Jacinda Shelly.

of the Python io module and the C io module.  They do not currently
match so the failing test is marked with @unittest.skip.

compare the public APIs of two modules or classes.

compression algorithms.

compression algorithms.