adopt a strategy that makes the fewest calls to random().

Thanks to Konrad Delong for writing a test for upload_docs
--show-response in distutils2, letting me catch my mistake.

is friendlier towards reference cycles.  This change is not normally
visible since an optimized C implementation (_thread._local) is used
instead.

and use it in test_robotparser. Fixes #8574.

would swallow the exception and raise a new one, making it impossible
to fetch the original errno, or to filter timeout errors.  Now the
original error is re-raised.

Original patch by Victor.

The example still doesn't work as-is under py3k, due to incomplete
or buggy porting of the nntplib module.

and the passed buffer was exactly 1024 bytes long, the buffer wouldn't
be updated back after the system call.  Original patch by Brian Brazil.

Patch by Sébastien Sablé.

an ImportError. Rearranged the import, faked out the implementation when
the import fails, and reorganized a test that depends on Win32 behavior.

test cases now also have assertWarns and assertWarnsRegexp methods to
check that a given warning type was triggered by the code under test.

view of their contents without duplicating them.  The view is both readable
and writable.

This uses the GetFileInformationByHandle function to return a tuple of values
to identify a file, then ntpath.sameopenfile compares file tuples, which
is exposed as os.path.sameopenfile.