Issue #16037: Limit httplib's _read_status() function to work around broken
HTTP servers and reduce memory usage. It's actually a backport of a Python
3.2 fix. Thanks to Adrien Kunysz.
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Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #16037: Limit httplib's _read_status() function to work around broken
+ HTTP servers and reduce memory usage. It's actually a backport of a Python
+ 3.2 fix. Thanks to Adrien Kunysz.
+
- Issue #13992: The trashcan mechanism is now thread-safe. This eliminates
sporadic crashes in multi-thread programs when several long deallocator
chains ran concurrently and involved subclasses of built-in container