diff --git a/Misc/HISTORY b/Misc/HISTORY
index 4280764..78006cd 100644
--- a/Misc/HISTORY
+++ b/Misc/HISTORY
@@ -18,13 +18,13 @@
 
 - Issue #16046: Fix loading sourceless legacy .pyo files.
 
-- Issue #16060: Fix refcounting bug when __trunc__ returns an object
-  whose __int__ gives a non-integer.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+- Issue #16060: Fix refcounting bug when `__trunc__()` returns an object whose
+  `__int__()` gives a non-integer.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
 
 Extension Modules
 -----------------
 
-- Issue #16012: Fix a regression in pyexpat. The parser's UseForeignDTD()
+- Issue #16012: Fix a regression in pyexpat. The parser's `UseForeignDTD()`
   method doesn't require an argument again.
 
 
@@ -36,26 +36,26 @@
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
-- Issue #15900: Fix reference leak in PyUnicode_TranslateCharmap().
+- Issue #15900: Fix reference leak in `PyUnicode_TranslateCharmap()`.
 
 - Issue #15926: Fix crash after multiple reinitializations of the interpreter.
 
 - Issue #15895: Fix FILE pointer leak in one error branch of
-  PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags() when filename points to a pyc/pyo file, closeit
-  is false an and set_main_loader() fails.
+  `PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags()` when filename points to a pyc/pyo file, closeit is
+  false an and set_main_loader() fails.
 
 - Fixes for a few crash and memory leak regressions found by Coverity.
 
 Library
 -------
 
-- Issue #15882: Change _decimal to accept any coefficient tuple when
-  constructing infinities. This is done for backwards compatibility
-  with decimal.py: Infinity coefficients are undefined in _decimal
-  (in accordance with the specification).
+- Issue #15882: Change `_decimal` to accept any coefficient tuple when
+  constructing infinities. This is done for backwards compatibility with
+  decimal.py: Infinity coefficients are undefined in _decimal (in accordance
+  with the specification).
 
-- Issue #15925: Fix a regression in email.util where the parsedate() and
-  parsedate_tz() functions did not return None anymore when the argument could
+- Issue #15925: Fix a regression in `email.util` where the `parsedate()` and
+  `parsedate_tz()` functions did not return None anymore when the argument could
   not be parsed.
 
 Extension Modules
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
 - Issue #15977: Fix memory leak in Modules/_ssl.c when the function
   _set_npn_protocols() is called multiple times, thanks to Daniel Sommermann.
 
-- Issue #15969: faulthandler module: rename dump_tracebacks_later() to
+- Issue #15969: `faulthandler` module: rename dump_tracebacks_later() to
   dump_traceback_later() and cancel_dump_tracebacks_later() to
   cancel_dump_traceback_later().
 
@@ -83,35 +83,37 @@
 -----------------
 
 - 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
-  types.
+  sporadic crashes in multi-thread programs when several long deallocator chains
+  ran concurrently and involved subclasses of built-in container types.
 
-- Issue #15784: Modify OSError.__str__() to better distinguish between
-  errno error numbers and Windows error numbers.
+- Issue #15784: Modify `OSError`.__str__() to better distinguish between errno
+  error numbers and Windows error numbers.
 
 - Issue #15781: Fix two small race conditions in import's module locking.
 
 Library
 -------
 
-- Issue #15847: Fix a regression in argparse, which did not accept tuples
-  as argument lists anymore.
+- Issue #17158: Add 'symbols' to help() welcome message; clarify
+  'modules spam' messages.
 
-- Issue #15828: Restore support for C extensions in imp.load_module().
+- Issue #15847: Fix a regression in argparse, which did not accept tuples as
+  argument lists anymore.
 
-- Issue #15340: Fix importing the random module when /dev/urandom cannot
-  be opened.  This was a regression caused by the hash randomization patch.
+- Issue #15828: Restore support for C extensions in `imp.load_module()`.
 
-- Issue #10650: Deprecate the watchexp parameter of the Decimal.quantize()
+- Issue #15340: Fix importing the random module when ``/dev/urandom`` cannot be
+  opened.  This was a regression caused by the hash randomization patch.
+
+- Issue #10650: Deprecate the watchexp parameter of the `Decimal.quantize()`
   method.
 
-- Issue #15785: Modify window.get_wch() API of the curses module: return
-  a character for most keys, and an integer for special keys, instead of
-  always returning an integer. So it is now possible to distinguish special
-  keys like keypad keys.
+- Issue #15785: Modify `window.get_wch()` API of the curses module: return a
+  character for most keys, and an integer for special keys, instead of always
+  returning an integer. So it is now possible to distinguish special keys like
+  keypad keys.
 
-- Issue #14223: Fix window.addch() of the curses module for special characters
+- Issue #14223: Fix `window.addch()` of the curses module for special characters
   like curses.ACS_HLINE: the Python function addch(int) and addch(bytes) is now
   calling the C function waddch()/mvwaddch() (as it was done in Python 3.2),
   instead of wadd_wch()/mvwadd_wch(). The Python function addch(str) is still
@@ -127,10 +129,10 @@
 Documentation
 -------------
 
-- Issue #15814: The memoryview enhancements in 3.3.0 accidentally permitted
-  the hashing of multi-dimensional memorviews and memoryviews with multi-byte
-  item formats. The intended restrictions have now been documented - they
-  will be correctly enforced in 3.3.1
+- Issue #15814: The memoryview enhancements in 3.3.0 accidentally permitted the
+  hashing of multi-dimensional memorviews and memoryviews with multi-byte item
+  formats. The intended restrictions have now been documented - they will be
+  correctly enforced in 3.3.1.
 
 
 What's New in Python 3.3.0 Release Candidate 1?
@@ -144,131 +146,123 @@
 - Issue #15573: memoryview comparisons are now performed by value with full
   support for any valid struct module format definition.
 
-- Issue #15316: When an item in the fromlist for __import__ doesn't exist,
+- Issue #15316: When an item in the fromlist for `__import__()` doesn't exist,
   don't raise an error, but if an exception is raised as part of an import do
   let that propagate.
 
-- Issue #15778: ensure that str(ImportError(msg)) returns a str
-  even when msg isn't a str.
+- Issue #15778: Ensure that ``str(ImportError(msg))`` returns a str even when
+  msg isn't a str.
 
-- Issue #2051: Source file permission bits are once again correctly
-  copied to the cached bytecode file. (The migration to importlib
-  reintroduced this problem because these was no regression test. A test
-  has been added as part of this patch)
+- Issue #2051: Source file permission bits are once again correctly copied to
+  the cached bytecode file. (The migration to importlib reintroduced this
+  problem because these was no regression test. A test has been added as part of
+  this patch)
 
-- Issue #15761: Fix crash when PYTHONEXECUTABLE is set on Mac OS X.
+- Issue #15761: Fix crash when ``PYTHONEXECUTABLE`` is set on Mac OS X.
 
-- Issue #15726: Fix incorrect bounds checking in PyState_FindModule.
-  Patch by Robin Schreiber.
+- Issue #15726: Fix incorrect bounds checking in PyState_FindModule.  Patch by
+  Robin Schreiber.
 
-- Issue #15604: Update uses of PyObject_IsTrue() to check for and handle
+- Issue #15604: Update uses of `PyObject_IsTrue()` to check for and handle
   errors correctly.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
 
-- Issue #14846: importlib.FileFinder now handles the case where the
-  directory being searched is removed after a previous import attempt
+- Issue #14846: `importlib.FileFinder` now handles the case where the directory
+  being searched is removed after a previous import attempt.
 
 Library
 -------
 
-- Issue #13370: Ensure that ctypes works on Mac OS X when Python is
-  compiled using the clang compiler
+- Issue #13370: Ensure that ctypes works on Mac OS X when Python is compiled
+  using the clang compiler.
 
-- Issue #13072: The array module's 'u' format code is now deprecated and
-  will be removed in Python 4.0.
+- Issue #13072: The array module's 'u' format code is now deprecated and will be
+  removed in Python 4.0.
 
 - Issue #15544: Fix Decimal.__float__ to work with payload-carrying NaNs.
 
-- Issue #15249: BytesGenerator now correctly mangles From lines (when
+- Issue #15776: Allow pyvenv to work in existing directory with --clean.
+
+- Issue #15249: email's BytesGenerator now correctly mangles From lines (when
   requested) even if the body contains undecodable bytes.
 
 - Issue #15777: Fix a refleak in _posixsubprocess.
 
-- Issue ##665194: Update email.utils.localtime to use datetime.astimezone and
+- Issue ##665194: Update `email.utils.localtime` to use datetime.astimezone and
   correctly handle historic changes in UTC offsets.
 
 - Issue #15199: Fix JavaScript's default MIME type to application/javascript.
   Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda.
 
-- Issue #12643: code.InteractiveConsole now respects sys.excepthook when
-  displaying exceptions (Patch by Aaron Iles)
+- Issue #12643: `code.InteractiveConsole` now respects `sys.excepthook` when
+  displaying exceptions.  Patch by Aaron Iles.
 
-- Issue #13579: string.Formatter now understands the 'a' conversion specifier.
+- Issue #13579: `string.Formatter` now understands the 'a' conversion specifier.
 
-- Issue #15793: Stack corruption in ssl.RAND_egd().
-  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15595: Fix subprocess.Popen(universal_newlines=True)
-  for certain locales (utf-16 and utf-32 family). Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
+- Issue #15595: Fix ``subprocess.Popen(universal_newlines=True)`` for certain
+  locales (utf-16 and utf-32 family). Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
 
 - Issue #15477: In cmath and math modules, add workaround for platforms whose
   system-supplied log1p function doesn't respect signs of zeros.
 
-- Issue #15715: importlib.__import__() will silence an ImportError when the use
-  of fromlist leads to a failed import.
+- Issue #15715: `importlib.__import__()` will silence an ImportError when the
+  use of fromlist leads to a failed import.
 
-- Issue #14669: Fix pickling of connections and sockets on MacOSX
-  by sending/receiving an acknowledgment after file descriptor transfer.
-  TestPicklingConnection has been reenabled for MacOSX.
+- Issue #14669: Fix pickling of connections and sockets on Mac OS X by
+  sending/receiving an acknowledgment after file descriptor transfer.
+  TestPicklingConnection has been reenabled for Mac OS X.
 
 - Issue #11062: Fix adding a message from file to Babyl mailbox.
 
-- Issue #15646: Prevent equivalent of a fork bomb when using
-  multiprocessing on Windows without the "if __name__ == '__main__'"
-  idiom.
+- Issue #15646: Prevent equivalent of a fork bomb when using `multiprocessing`
+  on Windows without the ``if __name__ == '__main__'`` idiom.
 
-- Issue #15678: Fix IDLE menus when started from OS X command line
-  (3.3.0b2 regression).
+IDLE
+----
 
-C API
------
-
-Extension Modules
------------------
-
-Tools/Demos
------------
+- Issue #15678: Fix IDLE menus when started from OS X command line (3.3.0b2
+  regression).
 
 Documentation
 -------------
 
-- Issue #14674: Add a discussion of the json module's standard compliance.
+- Touched up the Python 2 to 3 porting guide.
+
+- Issue #14674: Add a discussion of the `json` module's standard compliance.
   Patch by Chris Rebert.
 
 - Create a 'Concurrent Execution' section in the docs, and split up the
   'Optional Operating System Services' section to use a more user-centric
-  classification scheme (splitting them across the new CE section, IPC and
-  text processing). Operating system limitatons can be reflected with
-  the Sphinx ``:platform:`` tag, it doesn't make sense as part of the Table of
-  Contents.
+  classification scheme (splitting them across the new CE section, IPC and text
+  processing). Operating system limitations can be reflected with the Sphinx
+  ``:platform:`` tag, it doesn't make sense as part of the Table of Contents.
 
-- Issue #4966: Bring the sequence docs up to date for the Py3k transition
-  and the many language enhancements since they were original written
+- Issue #4966: Bring the sequence docs up to date for the Py3k transition and
+  the many language enhancements since they were original written.
 
 - The "path importer" misnomer has been replaced with Eric Snow's
-  more-awkward-but-at-least-not-wrong suggestion of "path based finder" in
-  the import system reference docs
+  more-awkward-but-at-least-not-wrong suggestion of "path based finder" in the
+  import system reference docs.
 
-- Issue #15640: Document importlib.abc.Finder as deprecated.
+- Issue #15640: Document `importlib.abc.Finder` as deprecated.
 
-- Issue #15630: Add an example for "continue" stmt in the tutorial. Patch by
+- Issue #15630: Add an example for "continue" stmt in the tutorial.  Patch by
   Daniel Ellis.
 
 Tests
 -----
 
 - Issue #15747: ZFS always returns EOPNOTSUPP when attempting to set the
-  UF_IMMUTABLE flag (via either chflags or lchflags); refactor affected
-  tests in test_posix.py to account for this.
+  UF_IMMUTABLE flag (via either chflags or lchflags); refactor affected tests in
+  test_posix.py to account for this.
 
-- Issue #15285: Refactor the approach for testing connect timeouts using
-  two external hosts that have been configured specifically for this type
-  of test.
+- Issue #15285: Refactor the approach for testing connect timeouts using two
+  external hosts that have been configured specifically for this type of test.
 
-- Issue #15743: Remove the deprecated method usage in urllib tests. Patch by
+- Issue #15743: Remove the deprecated method usage in `urllib` tests. Patch by
   Jeff Knupp.
 
-- Issue #15615: Add some tests for the json module's handling of invalid
-  input data.  Patch by Kushal Das.
+- Issue #15615: Add some tests for the `json` module's handling of invalid input
+  data.  Patch by Kushal Das.
 
 Build
 -----
@@ -277,11 +271,11 @@
 
 - Pick up 32-bit launcher from PGO directory on 64-bit PGO build.
 
-- Drop PC\python_nt.h as it's not used. Add input dependency on custom
+- Drop ``PC\python_nt.h`` as it's not used.  Add input dependency on custom
   build step.
 
-- Issue #15511: Drop explicit dependency on pythonxy.lib from _decimal
-  amd64 configuration.
+- Issue #15511: Drop explicit dependency on pythonxy.lib from _decimal amd64
+  configuration.
 
 - Add missing PGI/PGO configurations for pywlauncher.
 
@@ -296,15 +290,15 @@
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
-- Issue #15568: Fix the return value of "yield from" when StopIteration is
+- Issue #15568: Fix the return value of ``yield from`` when StopIteration is
   raised by a custom iterator.
 
-- Issue #13119: sys.stdout and sys.stderr are now using "\r\n" newline on
+- Issue #13119: `sys.stdout` and `sys.stderr` are now using "\r\n" newline on
   Windows, as Python 2.
 
 - Issue #15534: Fix the fast-search function for non-ASCII Unicode strings.
 
-- Issue #15508: Fix the docstring for __import__ to have the proper default
+- Issue #15508: Fix the docstring for `__import__()` to have the proper default
   value of 0 for 'level' and to not mention negative levels since they are not
   supported.
 
@@ -317,17 +311,17 @@
   byte code files) equal between 32-bit and 64-bit systems.
 
 - Issue #1692335: Move initial exception args assignment to
-  "BaseException.__new__" to help pickling of naive subclasses.
+  `BaseException.__new__()` to help pickling of naive subclasses.
 
-- Issue #12834: Fix PyBuffer_ToContiguous() for non-contiguous arrays.
+- Issue #12834: Fix `PyBuffer_ToContiguous()` for non-contiguous arrays.
 
-- Issue #15456: Fix code __sizeof__ after #12399 change.  Patch by Serhiy
+- Issue #15456: Fix code `__sizeof__()` after #12399 change.  Patch by Serhiy
   Storchaka.
 
 - Issue #15404: Refleak in PyMethodObject repr.
 
-- Issue #15394: An issue in PyModule_Create that caused references to be leaked
-  on some error paths has been fixed.  Patch by Julia Lawall.
+- Issue #15394: An issue in `PyModule_Create()` that caused references to be
+  leaked on some error paths has been fixed.  Patch by Julia Lawall.
 
 - Issue #15368: An issue that caused bytecode generation to be non-deterministic
   has been fixed.
@@ -335,7 +329,7 @@
 - Issue #15202: Consistently use the name "follow_symlinks" for new parameters
   in os and shutil functions.
 
-- Issue #15314: __main__.__loader__ is now set correctly during interpreter
+- Issue #15314: ``__main__.__loader__`` is now set correctly during interpreter
   startup.
 
 - Issue #15111: When a module imported using 'from import' has an ImportError
@@ -350,57 +344,62 @@
 - Issue #15110: Fix the tracebacks generated by "import xxx" to not show the
   importlib stack frames.
 
+- Issue #16369: Global PyTypeObjects not initialized with PyType_Ready(...).
+
 - Issue #15020: The program name used to search for Python's path is now
   "python3" under Unix, not "python".
 
-- Issue #15033: Fix the exit status bug when modules invoked using -m swith,
+- Issue #15897: zipimport.c doesn't check return value of fseek().
+  Patch by Felipe Cruz.
+
+- Issue #15033: Fix the exit status bug when modules invoked using -m switch,
   return the proper failure return value (1). Patch contributed by Jeff Knupp.
 
-- Issue #15229: An OSError subclass whose __init__ doesn't call back
+- Issue #15229: An `OSError` subclass whose __init__ doesn't call back
   OSError.__init__ could produce incomplete instances, leading to crashes when
   calling str() on them.
 
-- Issue 15307: Virtual environments now use symlinks with framework builds on
+- Issue #15307: Virtual environments now use symlinks with framework builds on
   Mac OS X, like other POSIX builds.
 
 Library
 -------
 
-- Issue #15424: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for array objects.  Patch by
+- Issue #14590: configparser now correctly strips inline comments when delimiter
+  occurs earlier without preceding space.
+
+- Issue #15424: Add a `__sizeof__()` implementation for array objects.  Patch by
   Ludwig Hähne.
 
 - Issue #15576: Allow extension modules to act as a package's __init__ module.
 
-- Issue #15502: Have importlib.invalidate_caches() work on sys.meta_path instead
-  of sys.path_importer_cache.
+- Issue #15502: Have `importlib.invalidate_caches()` work on `sys.meta_path`
+  instead of `sys.path_importer_cache`.
 
 - Issue #15163: Pydoc shouldn't list __loader__ as module data.
 
 - Issue #15471: Do not use mutable objects as defaults for
-  importlib.__import__().
+  `importlib.__import__()`.
 
 - Issue #15559: To avoid a problematic failure mode when passed to the bytes
-  constructor, objects in the ipaddress module no longer implement __index__
-  (they still implement __int__ as appropriate)
+  constructor, objects in the ipaddress module no longer implement `__index__()`
+  (they still implement `__int__()` as appropriate).
 
 - Issue #15546: Fix handling of pathological input data in the peek() and
   read1() methods of the BZ2File, GzipFile and LZMAFile classes.
 
-- Issue #13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog
-  ended with '\'. Patch by Roger Serwy.
+- Issue #12655: Instead of requiring a custom type, `os.sched_getaffinity()` and
+  `os.sched_setaffinity()` now use regular sets of integers to represent the
+  CPUs a process is restricted to.
 
-- Issue #12655: Instead of requiring a custom type, os.sched_getaffinity and
-  os.sched_setaffinity now use regular sets of integers to represent the CPUs a
-  process is restricted to.
-
-- Issue #15538: Fix compilation of the getnameinfo() / getaddrinfo() emulation
-  code.  Patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
+- Issue #15538: Fix compilation of the `socket.getnameinfo()` /
+  `socket.getaddrinfo()` emulation code.  Patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
 
 - Issue #15519: Properly expose WindowsRegistryFinder in importlib (and use the
-  correct term for it). Original patch by Eric Snow.
+  correct term for it).  Original patch by Eric Snow.
 
 - Issue #15502: Bring the importlib ABCs into line with the current state of the
-  import protocols given PEP 420. Original patch by Eric Snow.
+  import protocols given PEP 420.  Original patch by Eric Snow.
 
 - Issue #15499: Launching a webbrowser in Unix used to sleep for a few seconds.
   Original patch by Anton Barkovsky.
@@ -408,37 +407,36 @@
 - Issue #15463: The faulthandler module truncates strings to 500 characters,
   instead of 100, to be able to display long file paths.
 
-- Issue #6056: Make multiprocessing use setblocking(True) on the sockets it
+- Issue #6056: Make `multiprocessing` use setblocking(True) on the sockets it
   uses.  Original patch by J Derek Wilson.
 
 - Issue #15364: Fix sysconfig.get_config_var('srcdir') to be an absolute path.
 
-- Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
+- Issue #15413: `os.times()` had disappeared under Windows.
 
-- Issue #15413: os.times() had disappeared under Windows.
-
-- Issue #15402: An issue in the struct module that caused sys.getsizeof to
+- Issue #15402: An issue in the struct module that caused `sys.getsizeof()` to
   return incorrect results for struct.Struct instances has been fixed.  Initial
   patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
 
-- Issue #15232: When mangle_from is True, email.Generator now correctly mangles
-  lines that start with 'From ' that occur in a MIME preamble or epilogue.
+- Issue #15232: When mangle_from is True, `email.Generator` now correctly
+  mangles lines that start with 'From ' that occur in a MIME preamble or
+  epilogue.
 
 - Issue #15094: Incorrectly placed #endif in _tkinter.c.  Patch by Serhiy
   Storchaka.
 
-- Issue #13922: argparse no longer incorrectly strips '--'s that appear after
+- Issue #13922: `argparse` no longer incorrectly strips '--'s that appear after
   the first one.
 
-- Issue #12353: argparse now correctly handles null argument values.
+- Issue #12353: `argparse` now correctly handles null argument values.
 
 - Issue #10017, issue #14998: Fix TypeError using pprint on dictionaries with
   user-defined types as keys or other unorderable keys.
 
-- Issue #15397: inspect.getmodulename() is now based directly on importlib via a
-  new importlib.machinery.all_suffixes() API.
+- Issue #15397: `inspect.getmodulename()` is now based directly on importlib via
+  a new `importlib.machinery.all_suffixes()` API.
 
-- Issue #14635: telnetlib will use poll() rather than select() when possible to
+- Issue #14635: `telnetlib` will use poll() rather than select() when possible to
   avoid failing due to the select() file descriptor limit.
 
 - Issue #15180: Clarify posixpath.join() error message when mixing str & bytes.
@@ -455,7 +453,7 @@
 - Issue #15233: Python now guarantees that callables registered with the atexit
   module will be called in a deterministic order.
 
-- Issue #15238: shutil.copystat now copies Linux "extended attributes".
+- Issue #15238: `shutil.copystat()` now copies Linux "extended attributes".
 
 - Issue #15230: runpy.run_path now correctly sets __package__ as described in
   the documentation.
@@ -465,42 +463,42 @@
 - Issue #15294: Fix a regression in pkgutil.extend_path()'s handling of nested
   namespace packages.
 
-- Issue #15056: imp.cache_from_source() and source_from_cache() raise
-  NotImplementedError when sys.implementation.cache_tag is set to None.
+- Issue #15056: `imp.cache_from_source()` and `imp.source_from_cache()` raise
+  NotImplementedError when `sys.implementation.cache_tag` is set to None.
 
-- Issue #15256: Grammatical mistake in exception raised by imp.find_module().
+- Issue #15256: Grammatical mistake in exception raised by `imp.find_module()`.
 
-- Issue #5931: wsgiref environ variable SERVER_SOFTWARE will specify an
+- Issue #5931: `wsgiref` environ variable SERVER_SOFTWARE will specify an
   implementation specific term like CPython, Jython instead of generic "Python".
 
 - Issue #13248: Remove obsolete argument "max_buffer_size" of BufferedWriter and
   BufferedRWPair, from the io module.
 
-- Issue #13248: Remove obsolete argument "version" of argparse.ArgumentParser.
+- Issue #13248: Remove obsolete argument "version" of `argparse.ArgumentParser`.
 
 - Issue #14814: Implement more consistent ordering and sorting behaviour for
   ipaddress objects.
 
-- Issue #14814: ipaddress network objects correctly return NotImplemented when
+- Issue #14814: `ipaddress` network objects correctly return NotImplemented when
   compared to arbitrary objects instead of raising TypeError.
 
 - Issue #14990: Correctly fail with SyntaxError on invalid encoding declaration.
 
-- Issue #14814: ipaddress now provides more informative error messages when
+- Issue #14814: `ipaddress` now provides more informative error messages when
   constructing instances directly (changes permitted during beta due to
   provisional API status).
 
-- Issue #15247: FileIO now raises an error when given a file descriptor pointing
-  to a directory.
+- Issue #15247: `io.FileIO` now raises an error when given a file descriptor
+  pointing to a directory.
 
 - Issue #15261: Stop os.stat(fd) crashing on Windows when fd not open.
 
-- Issue #15166: Implement imp.get_tag() using sys.implementation.cache_tag.
+- Issue #15166: Implement `imp.get_tag()` using `sys.implementation.cache_tag`.
 
-- Issue #15210: Catch KeyError when importlib.__init__ can't find
+- Issue #15210: Catch KeyError when `importlib.__init__()` can't find
   _frozen_importlib in sys.modules, not ImportError.
 
-- Issue #15030: importlib.abc.PyPycLoader now supports the new source size
+- Issue #15030: `importlib.abc.PyPycLoader` now supports the new source size
   header field in .pyc files.
 
 - Issue #5346: Preserve permissions of mbox, MMDF and Babyl mailbox files on
@@ -513,7 +511,7 @@
   renamed over the old file when flush() is called on an mbox, MMDF or Babyl
   mailbox.
 
-- Issue 10924: Fixed crypt.mksalt() to use a RNG that is suitable for
+- Issue #10924: Fixed `crypt.mksalt()` to use a RNG that is suitable for
   cryptographic purpose.
 
 - Issue #15184: Ensure consistent results of OS X configuration tailoring for
@@ -524,10 +522,10 @@
 C API
 -----
 
-- Issue #15610: PyImport_ImportModuleEx() now uses a 'level' of 0 instead of -1.
+- Issue #15610: `PyImport_ImportModuleEx()` now uses a 'level' of 0 instead of -1.
 
-- Issues #15169, #14599: Strip out the C implementation of
-  imp.source_from_cache() used by PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() and
+- Issue #15169, issue #14599: Strip out the C implementation of
+  `imp.source_from_cache()` used by PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() and
   used the Python code instead. Leads to PyImport_ExecCodeModuleObject() to not
   try to infer the source path from the bytecode path as
   PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() does.
@@ -535,14 +533,17 @@
 Extension Modules
 -----------------
 
-- Issue #15676: Now "mmap" check for empty files before doing the
-  offset check.  Patch by Steven Willis.
-
-- Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields
-  of type ctypes.c_uint32 and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed.
+- Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields of
+  type `ctypes.c_uint32` and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed.
 
 - Issue #15194: Update libffi to the 3.0.11 release.
 
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog
+  ended with ``\``.  Patch by Roger Serwy.
+
 Tools/Demos
 -----------
 
@@ -562,8 +563,10 @@
 Documentation
 -------------
 
-- Issue #15444: Use proper spelling for non-ASCII contributor names.  Patch
-  by Serhiy Storchaka.
+- Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
+
+- Issue #15444: Use proper spelling for non-ASCII contributor names.  Patch by
+  Serhiy Storchaka.
 
 - Issue #15295: Reorganize and rewrite the documentation on the import system.
 
@@ -578,25 +581,29 @@
   "changed" since they will no longer work with modules directly imported by
   import itself.
 
-- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to exec or
-  execfile().
+- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to `exec()` or
+  `execfile()`.
 
-- Issue #15250: Document that filecmp.dircmp compares files shallowly. Patch
+- Issue #15250: Document that `filecmp.dircmp()` compares files shallowly. Patch
   contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
 
+- Issue #15442: Expose the default list of directories ignored by
+  `filecmp.dircmp()` as a module attribute, and expand the list to more modern
+  values.
+
 Tests
 -----
 
-- Issue #15467: Move helpers for __sizeof__ tests into test_support.  Patch by
-  Serhiy Storchaka.
+- Issue #15467: Move helpers for `__sizeof__()` tests into test_support.  Patch
+  by Serhiy Storchaka.
 
 - Issue #15320: Make iterating the list of tests thread-safe when running tests
   in multiprocess mode. Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
 
-- Issue #15168: Move importlib.test to test.test_importlib.
+- Issue #15168: Move `importlib.test` to `test.test_importlib`.
 
 - Issue #15091: Reactivate a test on UNIX which was failing thanks to a
-  forgotten importlib.invalidate_caches() call.
+  forgotten `importlib.invalidate_caches()` call.
 
 - Issue #15230: Adopted a more systematic approach in the runpy tests.
 
@@ -629,6 +636,8 @@
 
 - Issue #14018: Fix OS X Tcl/Tk framework checking when using OS X SDKs.
 
+- Issue #16256: OS X installer now sets correct permissions for doc directory.
+
 - Issue #15431: Add _freeze_importlib project to regenerate importlib.h on
   Windows. Patch by Kristján Valur Jónsson.
 
@@ -664,14 +673,9 @@
 
 - Issue #11626: Add _SizeT functions to stable ABI.
 
-- Issue #15146: Add PyType_FromSpecWithBases. Patch by Robin Schreiber.
-
 - Issue #15142: Fix reference leak when deallocating instances of types
   created using PyType_FromSpec().
 
-- Issue #15042: Add PyState_AddModule and PyState_RemoveModule. Add version
-  guard for Py_LIMITED_API additions. Patch by Robin Schreiber.
-
 - Issue #10053: Don't close FDs when FileIO.__init__ fails. Loosely based on
   the work by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
 
@@ -699,9 +703,6 @@
 Library
 -------
 
-- Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open.
-  Patch by Roger Serwy.
-
 - Issue #12288: Consider '0' and '0.0' as valid initialvalue
   for tkinter SimpleDialog.
 
@@ -720,14 +721,8 @@
 - Issue #15514: Correct __sizeof__ support for cpu_set.
   Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
 
-- Issue #15187: Bugfix: remove temporary directories test_shutil was leaving
-  behind.
-
 - Issue #15177: Added dir_fd parameter to os.fwalk().
 
-- Issue #15176: Clarified behavior, documentation, and implementation
-  of os.listdir().
-
 - Issue #15061: Re-implemented hmac.compare_digest() in C to prevent further
   timing analysis and to support all buffer protocol aware objects as well as
   ASCII only str instances safely.
@@ -827,10 +822,6 @@
 - Issue #15006: Allow equality comparison between naive and aware
   time or datetime objects.
 
-- Issue #14982: Document that pkgutil's iteration functions require the
-  non-standard iter_modules() method to be defined by an importer (something
-  the importlib importers do not define).
-
 - Issue #15036: Mailbox no longer throws an error if a flush is done
   between operations when removing or changing multiple items in mbox,
   MMDF, or Babyl mailboxes.
@@ -898,9 +889,6 @@
 
 - Issue #14969: Better handling of exception chaining in contextlib.ExitStack
 
-- Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
-  options.  Patch by Roger Serwy.
-
 - Issue #14963: Convert contextlib.ExitStack.__exit__ to use an iterative
   algorithm (Patch by Alon Horev)
 
@@ -913,6 +901,11 @@
 C-API
 -----
 
+- Issue #15146: Add PyType_FromSpecWithBases. Patch by Robin Schreiber.
+
+- Issue #15042: Add PyState_AddModule and PyState_RemoveModule. Add version
+  guard for Py_LIMITED_API additions. Patch by Robin Schreiber.
+
 - Issue #13783: Inadvertent additions to the public C API in the PEP 380
   implementation have either been removed or marked as private interfaces.
 
@@ -921,9 +914,25 @@
 
 - Issue #15000: Support the "unique" x32 architecture in _posixsubprocess.c.
 
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open.
+  Patch by Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
+  options.  Patch by Roger Serwy.
+
 Documentation
 -------------
 
+- Issue #15176: Clarified behavior, documentation, and implementation
+  of os.listdir().
+
+- Issue #14982: Document that pkgutil's iteration functions require the
+  non-standard iter_modules() method to be defined by an importer (something
+  the importlib importers do not define).
+
 - Issue #15081: Document PyState_FindModule.
   Patch by Robin Schreiber.
 
@@ -932,6 +941,9 @@
 Tests
 -----
 
+- Issue #15187: Bugfix: remove temporary directories test_shutil was leaving
+  behind.
+
 - Issue #14769: test_capi now has SkipitemTest, which cleverly checks
   for "parity" between PyArg_ParseTuple() and the Python/getargs.c static
   function skipitem() for all possible "format units".
@@ -1020,34 +1032,18 @@
 - Issue #14700: Fix two broken and undefined-behaviour-inducing overflow checks
   in old-style string formatting.
 
-- Issue #14705: The PyArg_Parse() family of functions now support the 'p' format
-  unit, which accepts a "boolean predicate" argument.  It converts any Python
-  value into an integer--0 if it is "false", and 1 otherwise.
-
 Library
 -------
 
 - Issue #14690: Use monotonic clock instead of system clock in the sched,
   subprocess and trace modules.
 
-- Issue #14958: Change IDLE systax highlighting to recognize all string and
-  byte literals supported in Python 3.3.
-
-- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
-
 - Issue #14443: Tell rpmbuild to use the correct version of Python in
   bdist_rpm. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
 
-- Issue #14929: Stop Idle 3.x from closing on Unicode decode errors when
-  grepping. Patch by Roger Serwy.
-
 - Issue #12515: email now registers a defect if it gets to EOF while parsing
   a MIME part without seeing the closing MIME boundary.
 
-- Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes Idle.
-  Other tooltipss have been corrected or improved and the number of tests
-  has been tripled. Original patch by Roger Serwy.
-
 - Issue #1672568: email now always decodes base64 payloads, adding padding and
   ignoring non-base64-alphabet characters if needed, and registering defects
   for any such problems.
@@ -1081,9 +1077,6 @@
 - Issue #14548: Make multiprocessing finalizers check pid before
   running to cope with possibility of gc running just after fork.
 
-- Issue #14863: Update the documentation of os.fdopen() to reflect the
-  fact that it's only a thin wrapper around open() anymore.
-
 - Issue #14036: Add an additional check to validate that port in urlparse does
   not go in illegal range and returns None.
 
@@ -1210,6 +1203,21 @@
 - Issue #14127 and #10148: shutil.copystat now preserves exact mtime and atime
   on filesystems providing nanosecond resolution.
 
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #14958: Change IDLE systax highlighting to recognize all string and
+  byte literals supported in Python 3.3.
+
+- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
+
+- Issue #14929: Stop IDLE 3.x from closing on Unicode decode errors when
+  grepping. Patch by Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes IDLE.
+  Other tooltipss have been corrected or improved and the number of tests
+  has been tripled. Original patch by Roger Serwy.
+
 Tools/Demos
 -----------
 
@@ -1228,9 +1236,19 @@
 
 - Issue #13210: Windows build now uses VS2010, ported from VS2008.
 
+C-API
+-----
+
+- Issue #14705: The PyArg_Parse() family of functions now support the 'p' format
+  unit, which accepts a "boolean predicate" argument.  It converts any Python
+  value into an integer--0 if it is "false", and 1 otherwise.
+
 Documentation
 -------------
 
+- Issue #14863: Update the documentation of os.fdopen() to reflect the
+  fact that it's only a thin wrapper around open() anymore.
+
 - Issue #14588: The language reference now accurately documents the Python 3
   class definition process. Patch by Nick Coghlan.
 
@@ -1279,9 +1297,6 @@
 - Issue #14339: Speed improvements to bin, oct and hex functions.  Patch by
   Serhiy Storchaka.
 
-- Issue #14098: New functions PyErr_GetExcInfo and PyErr_SetExcInfo.
-  Patch by Stefan Behnel.
-
 - Issue #14385: It is now possible to use a custom type for the __builtins__
   namespace, instead of a dict. It can be used for sandboxing for example.
   Raise also a NameError instead of ImportError if __build_class__ name if not
@@ -1431,12 +1446,6 @@
 
 - Don't Py_DECREF NULL variable in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder.
 
-- Issue #8515: Set __file__ when run file in IDLE.
-  Initial patch by Bruce Frederiksen.
-
-- Issue #14496: Fix wrong name in idlelib/tabbedpages.py.
-  Patch by Popa Claudiu.
-
 - Issue #3033: Add displayof parameter to tkinter font. Patch by Guilherme Polo.
 
 - Issue #14482: Raise a ValueError, not a NameError, when trying to create
@@ -1472,6 +1481,15 @@
 - Issue #14355: Regrtest now supports the standard unittest test loading, and
   will use it if a test file contains no `test_main` method.
 
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #8515: Set __file__ when run file in IDLE.
+  Initial patch by Bruce Frederiksen.
+
+- Issue #14496: Fix wrong name in idlelib/tabbedpages.py.
+  Patch by Popa Claudiu.
+
 Tools / Demos
 -------------
 
@@ -1481,6 +1499,12 @@
 - Issue #13165: stringbench is now available in the Tools/stringbench folder.
   It used to live in its own SVN project.
 
+C-API
+-----
+
+- Issue #14098: New functions PyErr_GetExcInfo and PyErr_SetExcInfo.
+  Patch by Stefan Behnel.
+
 
 What's New in Python 3.3.0 Alpha 2?
 ===================================
@@ -1532,16 +1556,9 @@
 
 - Issue #5136: deprecate old, unused functions from tkinter.
 
-- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
-  when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
-  has to use the built-in default key bindings.
-  There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
-
 - Issue #14416: syslog now defines the LOG_ODELAY and LOG_AUTHPRIV constants
   if they are defined in <syslog.h>.
 
-- IDLE can be launched as python -m idlelib
-
 - Issue #14295: Add unittest.mock
 
 - Issue #7652: Add --with-system-libmpdec option to configure for linking
@@ -1567,9 +1584,6 @@
   up the decimal module. Performance gains of the new C implementation are
   between 10x and 100x, depending on the application.
 
-- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
-  (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
-
 - Issue #14269: SMTPD now conforms to the RFC and requires a HELO command
   before MAIL, RCPT, or DATA.
 
@@ -1601,8 +1615,6 @@
   denial of service due to hash collisions.  Patch by David Malcolm with some
   modifications by the expat project.
 
-- Issue #14200: Idle shell crash on printing non-BMP unicode character.
-
 - Issue #12818: format address no longer needlessly \ escapes ()s in names when
   the name ends up being quoted.
 
@@ -1618,8 +1630,6 @@
 
 - Issue #989712: Support using Tk without a mainloop.
 
-- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
-
 - Issue #3835: Refuse to use unthreaded Tcl in threaded Python.
 
 - Issue #2843: Add new Tk API to Tkinter.
@@ -1848,10 +1858,6 @@
   on POSIX systems supporting anonymous memory mappings.  Patch by
   Charles-François Natali.
 
-- Issue #13452: PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal() doesn't support error handlers
-  different than "strict" anymore. The caller was unable to compute the
-  size of the output buffer: it depends on the error handler.
-
 - PEP 3155 / issue #13448: Qualified name for classes and functions.
 
 - Issue #13436: Fix a bogus error message when an AST object was passed
@@ -1942,10 +1948,6 @@
 
 - PEP 3151 / issue #12555: reworking the OS and IO exception hierarchy.
 
-- Issue #13560: Add PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(), PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize()
-  and PyUnicode_EncodeLocale() functions to the C API to decode/encode from/to
-  the current locale encoding.
-
 - Add internal API for static strings (_Py_identifier et al.).
 
 - Issue #13063: the Windows error ERROR_NO_DATA (numbered 232 and described
@@ -2028,7 +2030,7 @@
   deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
   IOBase).  Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
 
-- Issue #9611, #9015: FileIO.read() clamps the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
+- Issue #9611, Issue #9015: FileIO.read() clamps the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
 
 - Issue #9642: Uniformize the tests on the availability of the mbcs codec, add
   a new HAVE_MBCS define.
@@ -2191,17 +2193,11 @@
   PyUnicode_AsUTF8String() and PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(unicode, "utf-8",
   NULL).
 
-- Issue #10831: PyUnicode_FromFormat() supports %li, %lli and %zi formats.
-
 - Issue #10829: Refactor PyUnicode_FromFormat(), use the same function to parse
   the format string in the 3 steps, fix crashs on invalid format strings.
 
 - Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
 
-- Issue #11246: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormat("%V") to decode the byte string from
-  UTF-8 (with replace error handler) instead of ISO-8859-1 (in strict mode).
-  Patch written by Ray Allen.
-
 - Issue #11286: Raise a ValueError from calling PyMemoryView_FromBuffer with
   a buffer struct having a NULL data pointer.
 
@@ -2211,9 +2207,6 @@
 - Issue #11828: startswith and endswith now accept None as slice index.
   Patch by Torsten Becker.
 
-- Issue #10830: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormatV("%c") for non-BMP characters on
-  narrow build.
-
 - Issue #11168: Remove filename debug variable from PyEval_EvalFrameEx().
   It encoded the Unicode filename to UTF-8, but the encoding fails on
   undecodable filename (on surrogate characters) which raises an unexpected
@@ -2255,15 +2248,9 @@
   are dead or dying.  Moreover, the implementation is now O(1) rather than
   O(n).
 
-- Issue #13125: Silence spurious test_lib2to3 output when in non-verbose mode.
-  Patch by Mikhail Novikov.
-
 - Issue #11841: Fix comparison bug with 'rc' versions in packaging.version.
   Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
 
-- Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
-  scripts found in the Tools directory.
-
 - Issue #6884: Fix long-standing bugs with MANIFEST.in parsing in distutils
   on Windows.  Also fixed in packaging.
 
@@ -2319,9 +2306,6 @@
   authenticating (since the result may change, according to RFC 4643).
   Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
 
-- Issue #13989: Document that GzipFile does not support text mode, and give a
-  more helpful error message when opened with an invalid mode string.
-
 - Issue #13590: On OS X 10.7 and 10.6 with Xcode 4.2, building
   Distutils-based packages with C extension modules may fail because
   Apple has removed gcc-4.2, the version used to build python.org
@@ -2338,10 +2322,6 @@
 - Issue #13960: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken comments when
   strict=False.
 
-- Issue #13921: Undocument and clean up sqlite3.OptimizedUnicode,
-  which is obsolete in Python 3.x. It's now aliased to str for
-  backwards compatibility.
-
 - When '' is a path (e.g. in sys.path), make sure __file__ uses the current
   working directory instead of '' in importlib.
 
@@ -2363,11 +2343,6 @@
 - Issue #10811: Fix recursive usage of cursors. Instead of crashing,
   raise a ProgrammingError now.
 
-- Issue #10881: Fix test_site failure with OS X framework builds.
-
-- Issue #964437: Make IDLE help window non-modal.
-  Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.
-
 - Issue #13734: Add os.fwalk(), a directory walking function yielding file
   descriptors.
 
@@ -2377,16 +2352,8 @@
 
 - Issue #11805: package_data in setup.cfg should allow more than one value.
 
-- Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
-  module, like hashlib.  (Patch by Roger Serwy)
-
-- Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
-
 - Issue #13676: Handle strings with embedded zeros correctly in sqlite3.
 
-- Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
-  Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
-
 - Issue #8828: Add new function os.replace(), for cross-platform renaming
   with overwriting.
 
@@ -2407,12 +2374,6 @@
   OSError if localtime() failed. time.clock() now raises a RuntimeError if the
   processor time used is not available or its value cannot be represented
 
-- Issue #13862: Fix spurious failure in test_zlib due to runtime/compile time
-  minor versions not matching.
-
-- Issue #12804: Fix test_socket and test_urllib2net failures when running tests
-  on a system without internet access.
-
 - Issue #13772: In os.symlink() under Windows, do not try to guess the link
   target's type (file or directory).  The detection was buggy and made the
   call non-atomic (therefore prone to race conditions).
@@ -2439,9 +2400,6 @@
 - Issue #13642: Unquote before b64encoding user:password during Basic
   Authentication. Patch contributed by Joonas Kuorilehto.
 
-- Issue #13726: Fix the ambiguous -S flag in regrtest. It is -o/--slow for slow
-  tests.
-
 - Issue #12364: Fix a hang in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor.
   The hang would occur when retrieving the result of a scheduled future after
   the executor had been shut down.
@@ -2524,10 +2482,6 @@
 - Issue #13591: A bug in importlib has been fixed that caused import_module
   to load a module twice.
 
-- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint files,
-  display a message popup and continue rather than crash.  Original patch by
-  Roger Serwy.
-
 - Issue #13449 sched.scheduler.run() method has a new "blocking" parameter which
   when set to False makes run() execute the scheduled events due to expire
   soonest (if any) and then return.  Patch by Giampaolo Rodolà.
@@ -2544,12 +2498,9 @@
   'importlib.abc.PyPycLoader', 'nntplib.NNTP.xgtitle', 'nntplib.NNTP.xpath',
   and private attributes of 'smtpd.SMTPChannel'.
 
-- Issue #5905, #13560: time.strftime() is now using the current locale
+- Issue #5905, Issue #13560: time.strftime() is now using the current locale
   encoding, instead of UTF-8, if the wcsftime() function is not available.
 
-- Issue #8641: Update IDLE 3 syntax coloring to recognize b".." and not u"..".
-  Patch by Tal Einat.
-
 - Issue #13464: Add a readinto() method to http.client.HTTPResponse.  Patch
   by Jon Kuhn.
 
@@ -2661,9 +2612,6 @@
 - Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
   when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
 
-- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
-  (Patch by Roger Serwy)
-
 - Fix the xmlrpc.client user agent to return something similar to
   urllib.request user agent: "Python-xmlrpc/3.3".
 
@@ -2766,10 +2714,6 @@
 - Issue #13034: When decoding some SSL certificates, the subjectAltName
   extension could be unreported.
 
-- Issue #9871: Prevent IDLE 3 crash when given byte stings
-  with invalid hex escape sequences, like b'\x0'.
-  (Original patch by Claudiu Popa.)
-
 - Issue #12306: Expose the runtime version of the zlib C library as a constant,
   ZLIB_RUNTIME_VERSION, in the zlib module. Patch by Torsten Landschoff.
 
@@ -2798,8 +2742,6 @@
 
 - Issue #12878: Expose a __dict__ attribute on io.IOBase and its subclasses.
 
-- Issue #12636: IDLE reads the coding cookie when executing a Python script.
-
 - Issue #12494: On error, call(), check_call(), check_output() and
   getstatusoutput() functions of the subprocess module now kill the process,
   read its status (to avoid zombis) and close pipes.
@@ -2869,9 +2811,6 @@
 
 - Issue #10087: Fix the html output format of the calendar module.
 
-- Issue #12540: Prevent zombie IDLE processes on Windows due to changes
-  in os.kill().
-
 - Issue #13121: add support for inplace math operators to collections.Counter.
 
 - Add support for unary plus and unary minus to collections.Counter.
@@ -2903,7 +2842,7 @@
   Condition, etc.) used to be factory functions returning instances of hidden
   classes (_Event, _Condition, etc.), because (if Guido recalls correctly) this
   code pre-dates the ability to subclass extension types.  It is now possible
-  to inherit from these classes without having to import the private
+  to inherit from these classes, without having to import the private
   underscored names like multiprocessing did.
 
 - Issue #9723: Add shlex.quote functions, to escape filenames and command
@@ -2917,14 +2856,8 @@
 - Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
   given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
 
-- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
-  when opening a long file.  With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
-
 - Issue #12576: Fix urlopen behavior on sites which do not send (or obfuscates)
-  Connection:close header.
-
-- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
-  with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
+  ``Connection: close`` header.
 
 - Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
 
@@ -3179,7 +3112,7 @@
 - Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
   if the file is closed.
 
-- Issue #11109: New service_action method for BaseServer, used by ForkingMixIn
+- Issue #11109: New service_action method for BaseServer, used by ForkingMixin
   class for cleanup. Initial Patch by Justin Warkentin.
 
 - Issue #12045: Avoid duplicate execution of command in
@@ -3224,9 +3157,6 @@
   passing a ``context`` argument pointing to an ssl.SSLContext instance.
   Patch by Kasun Herath.
 
-- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
-  with Tk 8.5.
-
 - Issue #9516: Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
   is set in shell.
 
@@ -3246,10 +3176,6 @@
 - Issue #9971: Write an optimized implementation of BufferedReader.readinto().
   Patch by John O'Connor.
 
-- Issue #1028: Tk returns invalid Unicode null in %A: UnicodeDecodeError.
-  With Tk < 8.5 _tkinter.c:PythonCmd() raised UnicodeDecodeError, caused
-  IDLE to exit.  Converted to valid Unicode null in PythonCmd().
-
 - Issue #11799: urllib.request Authentication Handlers will raise a ValueError
   when presented with an unsupported Authentication Scheme. Patch contributed
   by Yuval Greenfield.
@@ -3486,12 +3412,12 @@
 
 - Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi
 
-- Issue #11659: Fix ResourceWarning in test_subprocess introduced by #11459.
-  Patch by Ben Hayden.
-
 - Issue #11635: Don't use polling in worker threads and processes launched by
   concurrent.futures.
 
+- Issue #5845: Automatically read readline configuration to enable completion
+  in interactive mode.
+
 - Issue #6811: Allow importlib to change a code object's co_filename attribute
   to match the path to where the source code currently is, not where the code
   object originally came from.
@@ -3526,7 +3452,7 @@
 
 - Issue #11127: Raise a TypeError when trying to pickle a socket object.
 
-- Issue #11563: Connection:close header is sent by requests using URLOpener
+- Issue #11563: ``Connection: close`` header is sent by requests using URLOpener
   class which helps in closing of sockets after connection is over. Patch
   contributions by Jeff McNeil and Nadeem Vawda.
 
@@ -3541,8 +3467,6 @@
 - Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
   setup and teardown.
 
-- Issue #11577: fix ResourceWarning triggered by improved binhex test coverage
-
 - Issue #11243: fix the parameter querying methods of Message to work if
   the headers contain un-encoded non-ASCII data.
 
@@ -3575,9 +3499,6 @@
 - Issue #11554: Fixed support for Japanese codecs; previously the body output
   encoding was not done if euc-jp or shift-jis was specified as the charset.
 
-- Issue #11509: Significantly increase test coverage of fileinput.
-  Patch by Denver Coneybeare at PyCon 2011 Sprints.
-
 - Issue #11407: `TestCase.run` returns the result object used or created.
   Contributed by Janathan Hartley.
 
@@ -3700,11 +3621,6 @@
 
 - Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
 
-- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
-
-- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
-  their children.
-
 - Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
 
 - Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
@@ -3757,10 +3673,61 @@
 
 - Issue #11495: OSF support is eliminated. It was deprecated in Python 3.2.
 
-
 IDLE
 ----
 
+- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
+  when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
+  has to use the built-in default key bindings.
+  There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
+
+- IDLE can be launched as python -m idlelib
+
+- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
+  (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
+
+- Issue #14200: IDLE shell crash on printing non-BMP unicode character.
+
+- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
+
+- Issue #964437: Make IDLE help window non-modal.
+  Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
+  module, like hashlib.  (Patch by Roger Serwy)
+
+- Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
+  Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint files,
+  display a message popup and continue rather than crash.  Original patch by
+  Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #8641: Update IDLE 3 syntax coloring to recognize b".." and not u"..".
+  Patch by Tal Einat.
+
+- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
+  (Patch by Roger Serwy)
+
+- Issue #9871: Prevent IDLE 3 crash when given byte stings
+  with invalid hex escape sequences, like b'\x0'.
+  (Original patch by Claudiu Popa.)
+
+- Issue #12636: IDLE reads the coding cookie when executing a Python script.
+
+- Issue #12540: Prevent zombie IDLE processes on Windows due to changes
+  in os.kill().
+
+- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
+  when opening a long file.  With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
+
+- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
+  with Tk 8.5.
+
+- Issue #1028: Tk returns invalid Unicode null in %A: UnicodeDecodeError.
+  With Tk < 8.5 _tkinter.c:PythonCmd() raised UnicodeDecodeError, caused
+  IDLE to exit.  Converted to valid Unicode null in PythonCmd().
+
 - Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
   file in a package.
 
@@ -3790,6 +3757,10 @@
 Extension Modules
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #16847: Fixed improper use of _PyUnicode_CheckConsistency() in
+  non-pydebug builds. Several extension modules now compile cleanly when
+  assert()s are enabled in standard builds (-DDEBUG flag).
+
 - Issue #13840: The error message produced by ctypes.create_string_buffer
   when given a Unicode string has been fixed.
 
@@ -3852,6 +3823,33 @@
 Tests
 -----
 
+- Issue #13125: Silence spurious test_lib2to3 output when in non-verbose mode.
+  Patch by Mikhail Novikov.
+
+- Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
+  scripts found in the Tools directory.
+
+- Issue #10881: Fix test_site failure with OS X framework builds.
+
+- Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
+
+- Issue #13862: Fix spurious failure in test_zlib due to runtime/compile time
+  minor versions not matching.
+
+- Issue #12804: Fix test_socket and test_urllib2net failures when running tests
+  on a system without internet access.
+
+- Issue #13726: Fix the ambiguous -S flag in regrtest. It is -o/--slow for slow
+  tests.
+
+- Issue #11659: Fix ResourceWarning in test_subprocess introduced by #11459.
+  Patch by Ben Hayden.
+
+- Issue #11577: fix ResourceWarning triggered by improved binhex test coverage
+
+- Issue #11509: Significantly increase test coverage of fileinput.
+  Patch by Denver Coneybeare at PyCon 2011 Sprints.
+
 - Issue #11689: Fix a variable scoping error in an sqlite3 test
 
 - Issue #13786: Remove unimplemented 'trace' long option from regrtest.py.
@@ -4030,7 +4028,7 @@
 - Issue #11505: improves test coverage of string.py. Patch by Alicia
   Arlen
 
-- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
+- Issue #11490: test_subprocess.test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
   false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
 
 - Issue #11223: Fix test_threadsignals to fail, not hang, when the
@@ -4054,6 +4052,23 @@
 C-API
 -----
 
+- Issue #13452: PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal() doesn't support error handlers
+  different than "strict" anymore. The caller was unable to compute the
+  size of the output buffer: it depends on the error handler.
+
+- Issue #13560: Add PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(), PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize()
+  and PyUnicode_EncodeLocale() functions to the C API to decode/encode from/to
+  the current locale encoding.
+
+- Issue #10831: PyUnicode_FromFormat() supports %li, %lli and %zi formats.
+
+- Issue #11246: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormat("%V") to decode the byte string from
+  UTF-8 (with replace error handler) instead of ISO-8859-1 (in strict mode).
+  Patch written by Ray Allen.
+
+- Issue #10830: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormatV("%c") for non-BMP characters on
+  narrow build.
+
 - Add PyObject_GenericGetDict and PyObject_GeneriSetDict. They are generic
   implementations for the getter and setter of a ``__dict__`` descriptor of C
   types.
@@ -4079,6 +4094,24 @@
 Documentation
 -------------
 
+- Issue #13989: Document that GzipFile does not support text mode, and give a
+  more helpful error message when opened with an invalid mode string.
+
+- Issue #13921: Undocument and clean up sqlite3.OptimizedUnicode,
+  which is obsolete in Python 3.x. It's now aliased to str for
+  backwards compatibility.
+
+- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
+  with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
+
+- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
+
+- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
+  their children.
+
+- Issue #13498: Clarify docs of os.makedirs()'s exist_ok argument.  Done with
+  great native-speaker help from R. David Murray.
+
 - Issues #13491 and #13995: Fix many errors in sqlite3 documentation.
   Initial patch for #13491 by Johannes Vogel.
 
@@ -9652,7 +9685,7 @@
 
 - Issue #1210: Fixed imaplib and its documentation.
 
-- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()`` 
+- Issue #4233: Changed semantic of ``_fileio.FileIO``'s ``close()``
   method on file objects with closefd=False. The file descriptor is still
   kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file. The ``FileIO``
   object also got a new readonly attribute ``closefd``.
@@ -9796,13 +9829,13 @@
   cyclic garbage collection.
 
 - Issue #3668: Fix a memory leak with the "s*" argument parser in
-  PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*" 
+  PyArg_ParseTuple and friends, which occurred when the argument for "s*"
   was correctly parsed but parsing of subsequent arguments failed.
 
 - Issue #3611: An exception __context__ could be cleared in a complex pattern
   involving a __del__ method re-raising an exception.
 
-- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to 
+- Issue #2534: speed up isinstance() and issubclass() by 50-70%, so as to
   match Python 2.5 speed despite the __instancecheck__ / __subclasscheck__
   mechanism. In the process, fix a bug where isinstance() and issubclass(),
   when given a tuple of classes as second argument, were looking up
@@ -9880,7 +9913,7 @@
 
 - The deprecation warnings for the camelCase threading API names were removed.
 
-- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing 
+- Issue #3110: multiprocessing fails to compiel on solaris 10 due to missing
   SEM_VALUE_MAX.
 
 Extension Modules
@@ -21593,7 +21626,7 @@
 
 - Improved BeOS support.
 
-- Support dynamic loading of shared libraries on NetBSD platforms that 
+- Support dynamic loading of shared libraries on NetBSD platforms that
 use ELF (i.e., MIPS and Alpha systems).
 
 Configuration/build changes
@@ -21810,7 +21843,7 @@
 higher-level classes in code.py.
 
 - turtle.py is a new module for simple turtle graphics.  I'm still
-working on it; let me know if you use this to teach Python to children 
+working on it; let me know if you use this to teach Python to children
 or other novices without prior programming experience.
 
 Obsoleted library modules
@@ -21942,7 +21975,7 @@
 Changes to tools
 ----------------
 
-- New, improved version of Barry Warsaw's Misc/python-mode.el (editing 
+- New, improved version of Barry Warsaw's Misc/python-mode.el (editing
 support for Emacs).
 
 - tabnanny.py: added a -q ('quiet') option to tabnanny, which causes
@@ -22217,7 +22250,7 @@
 -----------------
 
 - Install zlib.dll in the DLLs directory instead of in the win32
-system directory, to avoid conflicts with other applications that have 
+system directory, to avoid conflicts with other applications that have
 their own zlib.dll.
 
 Test Suite
@@ -22297,7 +22330,7 @@
 so that a symlink to a symlink can work.
 
 - Added a hack so that when you type 'quit' or 'exit' at the
-interpreter, you get a friendly explanation of how to press Ctrl-D (or 
+interpreter, you get a friendly explanation of how to press Ctrl-D (or
 Ctrl-Z) to exit.
 
 - New and improved Misc/python-mode.el (Python mode for Emacs).
@@ -22470,13 +22503,13 @@
 range.  Also, randint(a, b) is now redefined as randrange(a, b+1),
 adding extra range and type checking to its arguments!
 
-- Add some semi-thread-safety to random.gauss() (it used to be able to 
+- Add some semi-thread-safety to random.gauss() (it used to be able to
 crash when invoked from separate threads; now the worst it can do is
 give a duplicate result occasionally).
 
 - Some restructuring and generalization done to cmd.py.
 
-- Major upgrade to ConfigParser.py; converted to using 're', added new 
+- Major upgrade to ConfigParser.py; converted to using 're', added new
 exceptions, support underscore in section header and option name.  No
 longer add 'name' option to every section; instead, add '__name__'.
 
@@ -22673,7 +22706,7 @@
 -----------------
 
 - The registry key used is now "1.5" instead of "1.5.x" -- so future
-versions of 1.5 and Mark Hammond's win32all installer don't need to be 
+versions of 1.5 and Mark Hammond's win32all installer don't need to be
 resynchronized.
 
 Windows Tools
@@ -22740,7 +22773,7 @@
 dynamically add one or many entries to the table of built-in modules.
 
 - New macro Py_InitModule3(name, methods, doc) which calls
-Py_InitModule4() with appropriate arguments.  (The -4 variant requires 
+Py_InitModule4() with appropriate arguments.  (The -4 variant requires
 you to pass an obscure version number constant which is always the same.)
 
 - New APIs PySys_WriteStdout() and PySys_WriteStderr() to write to
@@ -22812,7 +22845,7 @@
 Syntax change
 -------------
 
-- The raise statement can now be used without arguments, to re-raise 
+- The raise statement can now be used without arguments, to re-raise
 a previously set exception.  This should be used after catching an
 exception with an except clause only, either in the except clause or
 later in the same function.
@@ -22871,7 +22904,7 @@
 
 	Demo/tkinter/guido/paint.py -- Dave Mitchell
 	Demo/sockets/unixserver.py -- Piet van Oostrum
-	
+
 
 - Much better freeze support.  The freeze script can now freeze
 hierarchical module names (with a corresponding change to import.c),
@@ -23010,7 +23043,7 @@
 - New command supported by the ftplib module: rmd(); also fixed some
 minor bugs.
 
-- The profile module now uses a different timer function by default -- 
+- The profile module now uses a different timer function by default --
 time.clock() is generally better than os.times().  This makes it work
 better on Windows NT, too.
 
@@ -23049,14 +23082,14 @@
 - In the multifile module, support the optional second parameter to
 seek() when possible.
 
-- Several fixes to the gopherlib module by Lars Marius Garshol.  Also, 
+- Several fixes to the gopherlib module by Lars Marius Garshol.  Also,
 urlparse now correctly handles Gopher URLs with query strings.
 
 - Fixed a tiny bug in format_exception() in the traceback module.
 Also rewrite tb_lineno() to be compatible with JPython (and not
 disturb the current exception!); by Jim Hugunin.
 
-- The httplib module is more robust when servers send a short response 
+- The httplib module is more robust when servers send a short response
 -- courtesy Tim O'Malley.
 
 Tkinter and friends
@@ -23071,7 +23104,7 @@
 no longer use the default root.
 
 - The interfaces for the bind*() and unbind() widget methods have been
-redesigned; the bind*() methods now return the name of the Tcl command 
+redesigned; the bind*() methods now return the name of the Tcl command
 created for the callback, and this can be passed as a optional
 argument to unbind() in order to delete the command (normally, such
 commands are automatically unbound when the widget is destroyed, but
@@ -23107,7 +23140,7 @@
 dictionary to allow recursive container types to detect recursion in
 their repr(), str() and print implementations.
 
-- New function PyObject_Not(x) calculates (not x) according to Python's 
+- New function PyObject_Not(x) calculates (not x) according to Python's
 standard rules (basically, it negates the outcome PyObject_IsTrue(x).
 
 - New function _PyModule_Clear(), which clears a module's dictionary
@@ -23268,7 +23301,7 @@
 instances with copy.py.  The cPickle.c changes and some pickle.py
 changes are courtesy Jim Fulton.
 
-- Locale support in he "re" (Perl regular expressions) module.  Use 
+- Locale support in he "re" (Perl regular expressions) module.  Use
 the flag re.L (or re.LOCALE) to enable locale-specific matching
 rules for \w and \b.  The in-line syntax for this flag is (?L).
 
@@ -23334,7 +23367,7 @@
 
 - Some improvements to the _tkinter build line suggested by Case Roole.
 
-- A full suite of platform specific files for NetBSD 1.x, submitted by 
+- A full suite of platform specific files for NetBSD 1.x, submitted by
 Anders Andersen.
 
 - New Solaris specific header STROPTS.py.
@@ -23404,7 +23437,7 @@
 if there are lots of duplicates, and otherwise at least as good.
 
 - Added "uue" as an alias for "uuencode" to mimetools.py.  (Hm, the
-uudecode bug where it complaints about trailing garbage is still there 
+uudecode bug where it complaints about trailing garbage is still there
 :-( ).
 
 - pickle.py requires integers in text mode to be in decimal notation
@@ -24180,7 +24213,7 @@
 The Python/C API for frames is changed (you shouldn't be using this
 anyway).
 
-- Significant speedup by inlining some common opcodes for common operand 
+- Significant speedup by inlining some common opcodes for common operand
 types (e.g.  i+i, i-i, and list[i]).  Fredrik Lundh.
 
 - Small speedup by reordering the method tables of some common
@@ -24206,34 +24239,34 @@
 printing the documentation now kills fewer trees -- the margins have
 been reduced.
 
-- I have started documenting the Python/C API. Unfortunately this project 
-hasn't been completed yet.  It will be complete before the final release of 
-Python 1.5, though.  At the moment, it's better to read the LaTeX source 
+- I have started documenting the Python/C API. Unfortunately this project
+hasn't been completed yet.  It will be complete before the final release of
+Python 1.5, though.  At the moment, it's better to read the LaTeX source
 than to attempt to run it through LaTeX and print the resulting dvi file.
 
-- The posix module (and hence os.py) now has doc strings!  Thanks to Neil 
-Schemenauer.  I received a few other contributions of doc strings.  In most 
+- The posix module (and hence os.py) now has doc strings!  Thanks to Neil
+Schemenauer.  I received a few other contributions of doc strings.  In most
 other places, doc strings are still wishful thinking...
 
 
 Language changes
 ----------------
 
-- Private variables with leading double underscore are now a permanent 
-feature of the language.  (These were experimental in release 1.4.  I have 
-favorable experience using them; I can't label them "experimental" 
+- Private variables with leading double underscore are now a permanent
+feature of the language.  (These were experimental in release 1.4.  I have
+favorable experience using them; I can't label them "experimental"
 forever.)
 
-- There's new string literal syntax for "raw strings".  Prefixing a string 
-literal with the letter r (or R) disables all escape processing in the 
-string; for example, r'\n' is a two-character string consisting of a 
-backslash followed by the letter n.  This combines with all forms of string 
-quotes; it is actually useful for triple quoted doc strings which might 
-contain references to \n or \t.  An embedded quote prefixed with a 
-backslash does not terminate the string, but the backslash is still 
-included in the string; for example, r'\'' is a two-character string 
-consisting of a backslash and a quote.  (Raw strings are also 
-affectionately known as Robin strings, after their inventor, Robin 
+- There's new string literal syntax for "raw strings".  Prefixing a string
+literal with the letter r (or R) disables all escape processing in the
+string; for example, r'\n' is a two-character string consisting of a
+backslash followed by the letter n.  This combines with all forms of string
+quotes; it is actually useful for triple quoted doc strings which might
+contain references to \n or \t.  An embedded quote prefixed with a
+backslash does not terminate the string, but the backslash is still
+included in the string; for example, r'\'' is a two-character string
+consisting of a backslash and a quote.  (Raw strings are also
+affectionately known as Robin strings, after their inventor, Robin
 Friedrich.)
 
 - There's a simple assert statement, and a new exception
@@ -24262,10 +24295,10 @@
 - The obsolete exception ConflictError (presumably used by the long
 obsolete access statement) has been deleted.
 
-- There's a new function sys.exc_info() which returns the tuple 
+- There's a new function sys.exc_info() which returns the tuple
 (sys.exc_type, sys.exc_value, sys.exc_traceback) in a thread-safe way.
 
-- There's a new variable sys.executable, pointing to the executable file 
+- There's a new variable sys.executable, pointing to the executable file
 for the Python interpreter.
 
 - The sort() methods for lists no longer uses the C library qsort(); I
@@ -24291,11 +24324,11 @@
 returning from a function that caught an exception.
 
 - There's a new "buffer" interface.  Certain objects (e.g. strings and
-arrays) now support the "buffer" protocol.  Buffer objects are acceptable 
-whenever formerly a string was required for a write operation; mutable 
+arrays) now support the "buffer" protocol.  Buffer objects are acceptable
+whenever formerly a string was required for a write operation; mutable
 buffer objects can be the target of a read operation using the call
-f.readinto(buffer).  A cool feature is that regular expression matching now 
-also work on array objects.  Contribution by Jack Jansen.  (Needs 
+f.readinto(buffer).  A cool feature is that regular expression matching now
+also work on array objects.  Contribution by Jack Jansen.  (Needs
 documentation.)
 
 - String interning: dictionary lookups are faster when the lookup
@@ -24587,7 +24620,7 @@
 of message sequence specifiers without invoking a subprocess.  Also
 added a createmessage() method by Lars Wirzenius.
 
-- The StringIO.StringIO class now supports readline(nbytes).  (Lars 
+- The StringIO.StringIO class now supports readline(nbytes).  (Lars
 Wirzenius.)  (Of course, you should be using cStringIO for performance.)
 
 - UserDict.py supports the new dictionary methods as well.
@@ -24635,8 +24668,8 @@
 - Various small fixes to the nntplib.py module that I can't bother to
 document in detail.
 
-- Sjoerd Mullender's mimify.py module now supports base64 encoding and 
-includes functions to handle the funny encoding you sometimes see in mail 
+- Sjoerd Mullender's mimify.py module now supports base64 encoding and
+includes functions to handle the funny encoding you sometimes see in mail
 headers.  It is now documented.
 
 - mailbox.py: Added BabylMailbox.  Improved the way the mailbox is
@@ -24987,23 +25020,23 @@
 NT (the old VC++ 4.2 Makefile is also still supported, but will
 eventually be withdrawn due to its bulkiness).
 
-- See the note on the new module search path in the "Miscellaneous" section 
+- See the note on the new module search path in the "Miscellaneous" section
 above.
 
 - Support for Win32s (the 32-bit Windows API under Windows 3.1) is
 basically withdrawn.  If it still works for you, you're lucky.
 
-- There's a new extension module, msvcrt.c, which provides various 
-low-level operations defined in the Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library.  
-These include locking(), setmode(), get_osfhandle(), set_osfhandle(), and 
+- There's a new extension module, msvcrt.c, which provides various
+low-level operations defined in the Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library.
+These include locking(), setmode(), get_osfhandle(), set_osfhandle(), and
 console I/O functions like kbhit(), getch() and putch().
 
 - The -u option not only sets the standard I/O streams to unbuffered
 status, but also sets them in binary mode.  (This can also be done
 using msvcrt.setmode(), by the way.)
 
-- The, sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix variables point to the directory 
-where Python is installed, or to the top of the source tree, if it was run 
+- The, sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix variables point to the directory
+where Python is installed, or to the top of the source tree, if it was run
 from there.
 
 - The various os.path modules (posixpath, ntpath, macpath) now support
@@ -25011,7 +25044,7 @@
 os.path.join(a, b, c) is the same as os.path.join(a, os.path.join(b,
 c)).
 
-- The ntpath module (normally used as os.path) supports ~ to $HOME 
+- The ntpath module (normally used as os.path) supports ~ to $HOME
 expansion in expanduser().
 
 - The freeze tool now works on Windows.
@@ -25309,47 +25342,47 @@
 
 - New module whichdb recognizes dbm, gdbm and bsddb/dbhash files.
 
-- The Doc/Makefile targets have been reorganized somewhat to remove the 
+- The Doc/Makefile targets have been reorganized somewhat to remove the
 insistence on always generating PostScript.
 
 - The texinfo to html filter (Doc/texi2html.py) has been improved somewhat.
 
-- "errors.h" has been renamed to "pyerrors.h" to resolve a long-standing 
+- "errors.h" has been renamed to "pyerrors.h" to resolve a long-standing
 name conflict on the Mac.
 
-- Linking a module compiled with a different setting for Py_TRACE_REFS now 
+- Linking a module compiled with a different setting for Py_TRACE_REFS now
 generates a linker error rather than a core dump.
 
-- The cgi module has a new convenience function print_exception(), which 
-formats a python exception using HTML.  It also fixes a bug in the 
-compatibility code and adds a dubious feature which makes it possible to 
+- The cgi module has a new convenience function print_exception(), which
+formats a python exception using HTML.  It also fixes a bug in the
+compatibility code and adds a dubious feature which makes it possible to
 have two query strings, one in the URL and one in the POST data.
 
-- A subtle change in the unpickling of class instances makes it possible 
-to unpickle in restricted execution mode, where the __dict__ attribute is 
+- A subtle change in the unpickling of class instances makes it possible
+to unpickle in restricted execution mode, where the __dict__ attribute is
 not available (but setattr() is).
 
-- Documentation for os.path.splitext() (== posixpath.splitext()) has been 
+- Documentation for os.path.splitext() (== posixpath.splitext()) has been
 cleared up.  It splits at the *last* dot.
 
 - posixfile locking is now also correctly supported on AIX.
 
-- The tempfile module once again honors an initial setting of tmpdir.  It 
+- The tempfile module once again honors an initial setting of tmpdir.  It
 now works on Windows, too.
 
-- The traceback module has some new functions to extract, format and print 
+- The traceback module has some new functions to extract, format and print
 the active stack.
 
-- Some translation functions in the urllib module have been made a little 
+- Some translation functions in the urllib module have been made a little
 less sluggish.
 
-- The addtag_* methods for Canvas widgets in Tkinter as well as in the 
-separate Canvas class have been fixed so they actually do something 
+- The addtag_* methods for Canvas widgets in Tkinter as well as in the
+separate Canvas class have been fixed so they actually do something
 meaningful.
 
 - A tiny _test() function has been added to Tkinter.py.
 
-- A generic Makefile for dynamically loaded modules is provided in the Misc 
+- A generic Makefile for dynamically loaded modules is provided in the Misc
 subdirectory (Misc/gMakefile).
 
 - A new version of python-mode.el for Emacs is provided.  See
@@ -25357,25 +25390,25 @@
 separate file pyimenu.el is no longer needed, imenu support is folded
 into python-mode.el.
 
-- The configure script can finally correctly find the readline library in a 
-non-standard location.  The LDFLAGS variable is passed on the Makefiles 
+- The configure script can finally correctly find the readline library in a
+non-standard location.  The LDFLAGS variable is passed on the Makefiles
 from the configure script.
 
-- Shared libraries are now installed as programs (i.e. with executable 
+- Shared libraries are now installed as programs (i.e. with executable
 permission).  This is required on HP-UX and won't hurt on other systems.
 
-- The objc.c module is no longer part of the distribution.  Objective-C 
+- The objc.c module is no longer part of the distribution.  Objective-C
 support may become available as contributed software on the ftp site.
 
 - The sybase module is no longer part of the distribution.  A much
 improved sybase module is available as contributed software from the
 ftp site.
 
-- _tkinter is now compatible with Tcl 7.5 / Tk 4.1 patch1 on Windows and 
-Mac (don't use unpatched Tcl/Tk!).  The default line in the Setup.in file 
+- _tkinter is now compatible with Tcl 7.5 / Tk 4.1 patch1 on Windows and
+Mac (don't use unpatched Tcl/Tk!).  The default line in the Setup.in file
 now links with Tcl 7.5 / Tk 4.1 rather than 7.4/4.0.
 
-- In Setup, you can now write "*shared*" instead of "*noconfig*", and you 
+- In Setup, you can now write "*shared*" instead of "*noconfig*", and you
 can use *.so and *.sl as shared libraries.
 
 - Some more fidgeting for AIX shared libraries.
@@ -25384,81 +25417,81 @@
 (Note -- a complete replacement by Niels Mo"ller, called gpmodule, is
 available from the contrib directory on the ftp site.)
 
-- A warning is written to sys.stderr when a __del__ method raises an 
+- A warning is written to sys.stderr when a __del__ method raises an
 exception (formerly, such exceptions were completely ignored).
 
-- The configure script now defines HAVE_OLD_CPP if the C preprocessor is 
+- The configure script now defines HAVE_OLD_CPP if the C preprocessor is
 incapable of ANSI style token concatenation and stringification.
 
-- All source files (except a few platform specific modules) are once again 
+- All source files (except a few platform specific modules) are once again
 compatible with K&R C compilers as well as ANSI compilers.  In particular,
-ANSI-isms have been removed or made conditional in complexobject.c, 
+ANSI-isms have been removed or made conditional in complexobject.c,
 getargs.c and operator.c.
 
-- The abstract object API has three new functions, PyObject_DelItem, 
+- The abstract object API has three new functions, PyObject_DelItem,
 PySequence_DelItem, and PySequence_DelSlice.
 
-- The operator module has new functions delitem and delslice, and the 
-functions "or" and "and" are renamed to "or_" and "and_" (since "or" and 
+- The operator module has new functions delitem and delslice, and the
+functions "or" and "and" are renamed to "or_" and "and_" (since "or" and
 "and" are reserved words).  ("__or__" and "__and__" are unchanged.)
 
-- The environment module is no longer supported; putenv() is now a function 
+- The environment module is no longer supported; putenv() is now a function
 in posixmodule (also under NT).
 
 - Error in filter(<function>, "") has been fixed.
 
 - Unrecognized keyword arguments raise TypeError, not KeyError.
 
-- Better portability, fewer bugs and memory leaks, fewer compiler warnings, 
+- Better portability, fewer bugs and memory leaks, fewer compiler warnings,
 some more documentation.
 
-- Bug in float power boundary case (0.0 to the negative integer power) 
+- Bug in float power boundary case (0.0 to the negative integer power)
 fixed.
 
-- The test of negative number to the float power has been moved from the 
-built-in pow() functin to floatobject.c (so complex numbers can yield the 
+- The test of negative number to the float power has been moved from the
+built-in pow() functin to floatobject.c (so complex numbers can yield the
 correct result).
 
-- The bug introduced in beta2 where shared libraries loaded (using 
+- The bug introduced in beta2 where shared libraries loaded (using
 dlopen()) from the current directory would fail, has been fixed.
 
-- Modules imported as shared libraries now also have a __file__ attribute, 
-giving the filename from which they were loaded.  The only modules without 
+- Modules imported as shared libraries now also have a __file__ attribute,
+giving the filename from which they were loaded.  The only modules without
 a __file__ attribute now are built-in modules.
 
-- On the Mac, dynamically loaded modules can end in either ".slb" or 
-".<platform>.slb" where <platform> is either "CFM68K" or "ppc".  The ".slb" 
+- On the Mac, dynamically loaded modules can end in either ".slb" or
+".<platform>.slb" where <platform> is either "CFM68K" or "ppc".  The ".slb"
 extension should only be used for "fat" binaries.
 
-- C API addition: marshal.c now supports 
+- C API addition: marshal.c now supports
 PyMarshal_WriteObjectToString(object).
 
 - C API addition: getargs.c now supports
 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(args, kwdict, format, kwnames, ...)
 to parse keyword arguments.
 
-- The PC versioning scheme (sys.winver) has changed once again.  the 
-version number is now "<digit>.<digit>.<digit>.<apiversion>", where the 
-first three <digit>s are the Python version (e.g. "1.4.0" for Python 1.4, 
-"1.4.1" for Python 1.4.1 -- the beta level is not included) and 
+- The PC versioning scheme (sys.winver) has changed once again.  the
+version number is now "<digit>.<digit>.<digit>.<apiversion>", where the
+first three <digit>s are the Python version (e.g. "1.4.0" for Python 1.4,
+"1.4.1" for Python 1.4.1 -- the beta level is not included) and
 <apiversion> is the four-digit PYTHON_API_VERSION (currently 1005).
 
 - h2py.py accepts whitespace before the # in CPP directives
 
-- On Solaris 2.5, it should now be possible to use either Posix threads or 
-Solaris threads (XXX: how do you select which is used???).  (Note: the 
-Python pthreads interface doesn't fully support semaphores yet -- anyone 
+- On Solaris 2.5, it should now be possible to use either Posix threads or
+Solaris threads (XXX: how do you select which is used???).  (Note: the
+Python pthreads interface doesn't fully support semaphores yet -- anyone
 care to fix this?)
 
-- Thread support should now work on AIX, using either DCE threads or 
+- Thread support should now work on AIX, using either DCE threads or
 pthreads.
 
 - New file Demo/sockets/unicast.py
 
-- Working Mac port, with CFM68K support, with Tk 4.1 support (though not 
+- Working Mac port, with CFM68K support, with Tk 4.1 support (though not
 both) (XXX)
 
-- New project setup for PC port, now compatible with PythonWin, with 
+- New project setup for PC port, now compatible with PythonWin, with
 _tkinter and NumPy support (XXX)
 
 - New module site.py (XXX)
@@ -25475,7 +25508,7 @@
 
 - string.atoi c.s. now raise an exception for an empty input string.
 
-- At last, it is no longer necessary to define HAVE_CONFIG_H in order to 
+- At last, it is no longer necessary to define HAVE_CONFIG_H in order to
 have config.h included at various places.
 
 - Unrecognized keyword arguments now raise TypeError rather than KeyError.
@@ -25483,25 +25516,25 @@
 - The makesetup script recognizes files with extension .so or .sl as
 (shared) libraries.
 
-- 'access' is no longer a reserved word, and all code related to its 
-implementation is gone (or at least #ifdef'ed out).  This should make 
+- 'access' is no longer a reserved word, and all code related to its
+implementation is gone (or at least #ifdef'ed out).  This should make
 Python a little speedier too!
 
-- Performance enhancements suggested by Sjoerd Mullender.  This includes 
-the introduction of two new optional function pointers in type object, 
-getattro and setattro, which are like getattr and setattr but take a 
+- Performance enhancements suggested by Sjoerd Mullender.  This includes
+the introduction of two new optional function pointers in type object,
+getattro and setattro, which are like getattr and setattr but take a
 string object instead of a C string pointer.
 
-- New operations in string module: lstrip(s) and rstrip(s) strip whitespace 
-only on the left or only on the right, A new optional third argument to 
-split() specifies the maximum number of separators honored (so 
-splitfields(s, sep, n) returns a list of at most n+1 elements).  (Since 
+- New operations in string module: lstrip(s) and rstrip(s) strip whitespace
+only on the left or only on the right, A new optional third argument to
+split() specifies the maximum number of separators honored (so
+splitfields(s, sep, n) returns a list of at most n+1 elements).  (Since
 1.3, splitfields(s, None) is totally equivalent to split(s).)
-string.capwords() has an optional second argument specifying the 
+string.capwords() has an optional second argument specifying the
 separator (which is passed to split()).
 
-- regsub.split() has the same addition as string.split().  regsub.splitx(s, 
-sep, maxsep) implements the functionality that was regsub.split(s, 1) in 
+- regsub.split() has the same addition as string.split().  regsub.splitx(s,
+sep, maxsep) implements the functionality that was regsub.split(s, 1) in
 1.4beta2 (return a list containing the delimiters as well as the words).
 
 - Final touch for AIX loading, rewritten Misc/AIX-NOTES.
@@ -25545,11 +25578,11 @@
 meaningful value (a few things were botched in beta 1).  Lib/dos_8x3
 is now a standard part of the distribution (alas).
 
-- More improvements to the installation procedure.  Typing "make install" 
-now inserts the version number in the pathnames of almost everything 
-installed, and creates the machine dependent modules (FCNTL.py etc.) if not 
-supplied by the distribution.  (XXX There's still a problem with the latter 
-because the "regen" script requires that Python is installed.  Some manual 
+- More improvements to the installation procedure.  Typing "make install"
+now inserts the version number in the pathnames of almost everything
+installed, and creates the machine dependent modules (FCNTL.py etc.) if not
+supplied by the distribution.  (XXX There's still a problem with the latter
+because the "regen" script requires that Python is installed.  Some manual
 intervention may still be required.) (This has been fixed in 1.4beta3.)
 
 - New modules: errno, operator (XXX).
@@ -25612,8 +25645,8 @@
 
 - Added sys.platform and sys.exec_platform for Bill Janssen.
 
-- Installation has been completely overhauled.  "make install" now installs 
-everything, not just the python binary.  Installation uses the install-sh 
+- Installation has been completely overhauled.  "make install" now installs
+everything, not just the python binary.  Installation uses the install-sh
 script (borrowed from X11) to install each file.
 
 - New functions in the posix module: mkfifo, plock, remove (== unlink),
@@ -25623,59 +25656,59 @@
 
 - Shared library support for FreeBSD.
 
-- The --with-readline option can now be used without a DIRECTORY argument, 
-for systems where libreadline.* is in one of the standard places.  It is 
+- The --with-readline option can now be used without a DIRECTORY argument,
+for systems where libreadline.* is in one of the standard places.  It is
 also possible for it to be a shared library.
 
-- The extension tkinter has been renamed to _tkinter, to avoid confusion 
-with Tkinter.py oncase insensitive file systems.  It now supports Tk 4.1 as 
+- The extension tkinter has been renamed to _tkinter, to avoid confusion
+with Tkinter.py oncase insensitive file systems.  It now supports Tk 4.1 as
 well as 4.0.
 
-- Author's change of address from CWI in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, to 
+- Author's change of address from CWI in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, to
 CNRI in Reston, VA, USA.
 
-- The math.hypot() function is now always available (if it isn't found in 
+- The math.hypot() function is now always available (if it isn't found in
 the C math library, Python provides its own implementation).
 
-- The latex documentation is now compatible with latex2e, thanks to David 
+- The latex documentation is now compatible with latex2e, thanks to David
 Ascher.
 
 - The expression x**y is now equivalent to pow(x, y).
 
 - The indexing expression x[a, b, c] is now equivalent to x[(a, b, c)].
 
-- Complex numbers are now supported.  Imaginary constants are written with 
-a 'j' or 'J' prefix, general complex numbers can be formed by adding a real 
-part to an imaginary part, like 3+4j.  Complex numbers are always stored in 
-floating point form, so this is equivalent to 3.0+4.0j.  It is also 
-possible to create complex numbers with the new built-in function 
-complex(re, [im]).  For the footprint-conscious, complex number support can 
+- Complex numbers are now supported.  Imaginary constants are written with
+a 'j' or 'J' prefix, general complex numbers can be formed by adding a real
+part to an imaginary part, like 3+4j.  Complex numbers are always stored in
+floating point form, so this is equivalent to 3.0+4.0j.  It is also
+possible to create complex numbers with the new built-in function
+complex(re, [im]).  For the footprint-conscious, complex number support can
 be disabled by defining the symbol WITHOUT_COMPLEX.
 
 - New built-in function list() is the long-awaited counterpart of tuple().
 
-- There's a new "cmath" module which provides the same functions as the 
-"math" library but with complex arguments and results.  (There are very 
-good reasons why math.sqrt(-1) still raises an exception -- you have to use 
+- There's a new "cmath" module which provides the same functions as the
+"math" library but with complex arguments and results.  (There are very
+good reasons why math.sqrt(-1) still raises an exception -- you have to use
 cmath.sqrt(-1) to get 1j for an answer.)
 
-- The Python.h header file (which is really the same as allobjects.h except 
-it disables support for old style names) now includes several more files, 
+- The Python.h header file (which is really the same as allobjects.h except
+it disables support for old style names) now includes several more files,
 so you have to have fewer #include statements in the average extension.
 
-- The NDEBUG symbol is no longer used.  Code that used to be dependent on 
-the presence of NDEBUG is now present on the absence of DEBUG.  TRACE_REFS 
-and REF_DEBUG have been renamed to Py_TRACE_REFS and Py_REF_DEBUG, 
-respectively.  At long last, the source actually compiles and links without 
+- The NDEBUG symbol is no longer used.  Code that used to be dependent on
+the presence of NDEBUG is now present on the absence of DEBUG.  TRACE_REFS
+and REF_DEBUG have been renamed to Py_TRACE_REFS and Py_REF_DEBUG,
+respectively.  At long last, the source actually compiles and links without
 errors when this symbol is defined.
 
-- Several symbols that didn't follow the new naming scheme have been 
-renamed (usually by adding to rename2.h) to use a Py or _Py prefix.  There 
-are no external symbols left without a Py or _Py prefix, not even those 
-defined by sources that were incorporated from elsewhere (regexpr.c, 
+- Several symbols that didn't follow the new naming scheme have been
+renamed (usually by adding to rename2.h) to use a Py or _Py prefix.  There
+are no external symbols left without a Py or _Py prefix, not even those
+defined by sources that were incorporated from elsewhere (regexpr.c,
 md5c.c).  (Macros are a different story...)
 
-- There are now typedefs for the structures defined in config.c and 
+- There are now typedefs for the structures defined in config.c and
 frozen.c.
 
 - New PYTHON_API_VERSION value and .pyc file magic number.
@@ -25689,125 +25722,125 @@
 - The binhex and binascii modules now actually work.
 
 - The cgi module has been almost totally rewritten and documented.
-It now supports file upload and a new data type to handle forms more 
+It now supports file upload and a new data type to handle forms more
 flexibly.
 
 - The formatter module (for use with htmllib) has been overhauled (again).
 
 - The ftplib module now supports passive mode and has doc strings.
 
-- In (ideally) all places where binary files are read or written, the file 
-is now correctly opened in binary mode ('rb' or 'wb') so the code will work 
+- In (ideally) all places where binary files are read or written, the file
+is now correctly opened in binary mode ('rb' or 'wb') so the code will work
 on Mac or PC.
 
-- Dummy versions of os.path.expandvars() and expanduser() are now provided 
+- Dummy versions of os.path.expandvars() and expanduser() are now provided
 on non-Unix platforms.
 
-- Module urllib now has two new functions url2pathname and pathname2url 
-which turn local filenames into "file:..." URLs using the same rules as 
-Netscape (why be different).  it also supports urlretrieve() with a 
-pathname parameter, and honors the proxy environment variables (http_proxy 
+- Module urllib now has two new functions url2pathname and pathname2url
+which turn local filenames into "file:..." URLs using the same rules as
+Netscape (why be different).  it also supports urlretrieve() with a
+pathname parameter, and honors the proxy environment variables (http_proxy
 etc.).  The URL parsing has been improved somewhat, too.
 
-- Micro improvements to urlparse.  Added urlparse.urldefrag() which 
+- Micro improvements to urlparse.  Added urlparse.urldefrag() which
 removes a trailing ``#fragment'' if any.
 
 - The mailbox module now supports MH style message delimiters as well.
 
-- The mhlib module contains some new functionality: setcontext() to set the 
-current folder and parsesequence() to parse a sequence as commonly passed 
+- The mhlib module contains some new functionality: setcontext() to set the
+current folder and parsesequence() to parse a sequence as commonly passed
 to MH commands (e.g. 1-10 or last:5).
 
-- New module mimify for conversion to and from MIME format of email 
+- New module mimify for conversion to and from MIME format of email
 messages.
 
-- Module ni now automatically installs itself when first imported -- this 
-is against the normal rule that modules should define classes and functions 
-but not invoke them, but appears more useful in the case that two 
+- Module ni now automatically installs itself when first imported -- this
+is against the normal rule that modules should define classes and functions
+but not invoke them, but appears more useful in the case that two
 different, independent modules want to use ni's features.
 
 - Some small performance enhancements in module pickle.
 
-- Small interface change to the profile.run*() family of functions -- more 
+- Small interface change to the profile.run*() family of functions -- more
 sensible handling of return values.
 
-- The officially registered Mac creator for Python files is 'Pyth'.  This 
+- The officially registered Mac creator for Python files is 'Pyth'.  This
 replaces 'PYTH' which was used before but never registered.
 
 - Added regsub.capwords().  (XXX)
 
-- Added string.capwords(), string.capitalize() and string.translate().  
+- Added string.capwords(), string.capitalize() and string.translate().
 (XXX)
 
-- Fixed an interface bug in the rexec module: it was impossible to pass a 
-hooks instance to the RExec class.  rexec now also supports the dynamic 
-loading of modules from shared libraries.  Some other interfaces have been 
+- Fixed an interface bug in the rexec module: it was impossible to pass a
+hooks instance to the RExec class.  rexec now also supports the dynamic
+loading of modules from shared libraries.  Some other interfaces have been
 added too.
 
-- Module rfc822 now caches the headers in a dictionary for more efficient 
+- Module rfc822 now caches the headers in a dictionary for more efficient
 lookup.
 
-- The sgmllib module now understands a limited number of SGML "shorthands" 
+- The sgmllib module now understands a limited number of SGML "shorthands"
 like <A/.../ for <A>...</A>.  (It's not clear that this was a good idea...)
 
-- The tempfile module actually tries a number of different places to find a 
-usable temporary directory.  (This was prompted by certain Linux 
-installations that appear to be missing a /usr/tmp directory.) [A bug in 
-the implementation that would ignore a pre-existing tmpdir global has been 
+- The tempfile module actually tries a number of different places to find a
+usable temporary directory.  (This was prompted by certain Linux
+installations that appear to be missing a /usr/tmp directory.) [A bug in
+the implementation that would ignore a pre-existing tmpdir global has been
 fixed in beta3.]
 
 - Much improved and enhanved FileDialog module for Tkinter.
 
-- Many small changes to Tkinter, to bring it more in line with Tk 4.0 (as 
+- Many small changes to Tkinter, to bring it more in line with Tk 4.0 (as
 well as Tk 4.1).
 
-- New socket interfaces include ntohs(), ntohl(), htons(), htonl(), and 
-s.dup().  Sockets now work correctly on Windows.  On Windows, the built-in 
-extension is called _socket and a wrapper module win/socket.py provides 
-"makefile()" and "dup()" functionality.  On Windows, the select module 
+- New socket interfaces include ntohs(), ntohl(), htons(), htonl(), and
+s.dup().  Sockets now work correctly on Windows.  On Windows, the built-in
+extension is called _socket and a wrapper module win/socket.py provides
+"makefile()" and "dup()" functionality.  On Windows, the select module
 works only with socket objects.
 
 - Bugs in bsddb module fixed (e.g. missing default argument values).
 
 - The curses extension now includes <ncurses.h> when available.
 
-- The gdbm module now supports opening databases in "fast" mode by 
+- The gdbm module now supports opening databases in "fast" mode by
 specifying 'f' as the second character or the mode string.
 
-- new variables sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix pass corresponding 
+- new variables sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix pass corresponding
 configuration options / Makefile variables to the Python programmer.
 
-- The ``new'' module now supports creating new user-defined classes as well 
+- The ``new'' module now supports creating new user-defined classes as well
 as instances thereof.
 
-- The soundex module now sports get_soundex() to get the soundex value for an 
-arbitrary string (formerly it would only do soundex-based string 
+- The soundex module now sports get_soundex() to get the soundex value for an
+arbitrary string (formerly it would only do soundex-based string
 comparison) as well as doc strings.
 
-- New object type "cobject" to safely wrap void pointers for passing them 
+- New object type "cobject" to safely wrap void pointers for passing them
 between various extension modules.
 
 - More efficient computation of float**smallint.
 
-- The mysterious bug whereby "x.x" (two occurrences of the same 
-one-character name) typed from the commandline would sometimes fail 
+- The mysterious bug whereby "x.x" (two occurrences of the same
+one-character name) typed from the commandline would sometimes fail
 mysteriously.
 
-- The initialization of the readline function can now be invoked by a C 
+- The initialization of the readline function can now be invoked by a C
 extension through PyOS_ReadlineInit().
 
-- There's now an externally visible pointer PyImport_FrozenModules which 
+- There's now an externally visible pointer PyImport_FrozenModules which
 can be changed by an embedding application.
 
-- The argument parsing functions now support a new format character 'D' to 
+- The argument parsing functions now support a new format character 'D' to
 specify complex numbers.
 
 - Various memory leaks plugged and bugs fixed.
 
-- Improved support for posix threads (now that real implementations are 
+- Improved support for posix threads (now that real implementations are
 beginning to apepar).  Still no fully functioning semaphores.
 
-- Some various and sundry improvements and new entries in the Tools 
+- Some various and sundry improvements and new entries in the Tools
 directory.
 
 
@@ -27417,7 +27450,7 @@
 The limit on the size of the *run-time* stack has completely been
 removed -- this means that tuple or list displays can contain any
 number of elements (formerly more than 50 would crash the
-interpreter). 
+interpreter).
 
 
 Changes to existing built-in functions and methods
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index f5d0bc5..750ecce 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -4359,4137 +4359,4 @@
 - Issue #18569: The installer now adds .py to the PATHEXT variable when extensions
   are registered. Patch by Paul Moore.
 
-
-What's New in Python 3.3.0?
-===========================
-
-*Release date: 29-Sep-2012*
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Issue #16046: Fix loading sourceless legacy .pyo files.
-
-- Issue #16060: Fix refcounting bug when `__trunc__()` returns an object whose
-  `__int__()` gives a non-integer.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-Extension Modules
------------------
-
-- Issue #16012: Fix a regression in pyexpat. The parser's `UseForeignDTD()`
-  method doesn't require an argument again.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.3.0 Release Candidate 3?
-===============================================
-
-*Release date: 23-Sep-2012*
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Issue #15900: Fix reference leak in `PyUnicode_TranslateCharmap()`.
-
-- Issue #15926: Fix crash after multiple reinitializations of the interpreter.
-
-- Issue #15895: Fix FILE pointer leak in one error branch of
-  `PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags()` when filename points to a pyc/pyo file, closeit is
-  false an and set_main_loader() fails.
-
-- Fixes for a few crash and memory leak regressions found by Coverity.
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #15882: Change `_decimal` to accept any coefficient tuple when
-  constructing infinities. This is done for backwards compatibility with
-  decimal.py: Infinity coefficients are undefined in _decimal (in accordance
-  with the specification).
-
-- Issue #15925: Fix a regression in `email.util` where the `parsedate()` and
-  `parsedate_tz()` functions did not return None anymore when the argument could
-  not be parsed.
-
-Extension Modules
------------------
-
-- Issue #15973: Fix a segmentation fault when comparing datetime timezone
-  objects.
-
-- Issue #15977: Fix memory leak in Modules/_ssl.c when the function
-  _set_npn_protocols() is called multiple times, thanks to Daniel Sommermann.
-
-- Issue #15969: `faulthandler` module: rename dump_tracebacks_later() to
-  dump_traceback_later() and cancel_dump_tracebacks_later() to
-  cancel_dump_traceback_later().
-
-- _decimal module: use only C 89 style comments.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.3.0 Release Candidate 2?
-===============================================
-
-*Release date: 09-Sep-2012*
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- 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 types.
-
-- Issue #15784: Modify `OSError`.__str__() to better distinguish between errno
-  error numbers and Windows error numbers.
-
-- Issue #15781: Fix two small race conditions in import's module locking.
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #17158: Add 'symbols' to help() welcome message; clarify
-  'modules spam' messages.
-
-- Issue #15847: Fix a regression in argparse, which did not accept tuples as
-  argument lists anymore.
-
-- Issue #15828: Restore support for C extensions in `imp.load_module()`.
-
-- Issue #15340: Fix importing the random module when ``/dev/urandom`` cannot be
-  opened.  This was a regression caused by the hash randomization patch.
-
-- Issue #10650: Deprecate the watchexp parameter of the `Decimal.quantize()`
-  method.
-
-- Issue #15785: Modify `window.get_wch()` API of the curses module: return a
-  character for most keys, and an integer for special keys, instead of always
-  returning an integer. So it is now possible to distinguish special keys like
-  keypad keys.
-
-- Issue #14223: Fix `window.addch()` of the curses module for special characters
-  like curses.ACS_HLINE: the Python function addch(int) and addch(bytes) is now
-  calling the C function waddch()/mvwaddch() (as it was done in Python 3.2),
-  instead of wadd_wch()/mvwadd_wch(). The Python function addch(str) is still
-  calling the C function wadd_wch()/mvwadd_wch() if the Python curses is linked
-  to libncursesw.
-
-Build
------
-
-- Issue #15822: Really ensure 2to3 grammar pickles are properly installed
-  (replaces fixes for Issue #15645).
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- Issue #15814: The memoryview enhancements in 3.3.0 accidentally permitted the
-  hashing of multi-dimensional memorviews and memoryviews with multi-byte item
-  formats. The intended restrictions have now been documented - they will be
-  correctly enforced in 3.3.1.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.3.0 Release Candidate 1?
-===============================================
-
-*Release date: 25-Aug-2012*
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Issue #15573: memoryview comparisons are now performed by value with full
-  support for any valid struct module format definition.
-
-- Issue #15316: When an item in the fromlist for `__import__()` doesn't exist,
-  don't raise an error, but if an exception is raised as part of an import do
-  let that propagate.
-
-- Issue #15778: Ensure that ``str(ImportError(msg))`` returns a str even when
-  msg isn't a str.
-
-- Issue #2051: Source file permission bits are once again correctly copied to
-  the cached bytecode file. (The migration to importlib reintroduced this
-  problem because these was no regression test. A test has been added as part of
-  this patch)
-
-- Issue #15761: Fix crash when ``PYTHONEXECUTABLE`` is set on Mac OS X.
-
-- Issue #15726: Fix incorrect bounds checking in PyState_FindModule.  Patch by
-  Robin Schreiber.
-
-- Issue #15604: Update uses of `PyObject_IsTrue()` to check for and handle
-  errors correctly.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #14846: `importlib.FileFinder` now handles the case where the directory
-  being searched is removed after a previous import attempt.
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #13370: Ensure that ctypes works on Mac OS X when Python is compiled
-  using the clang compiler.
-
-- Issue #13072: The array module's 'u' format code is now deprecated and will be
-  removed in Python 4.0.
-
-- Issue #15544: Fix Decimal.__float__ to work with payload-carrying NaNs.
-
-- Issue #15776: Allow pyvenv to work in existing directory with --clean.
-
-- Issue #15249: email's BytesGenerator now correctly mangles From lines (when
-  requested) even if the body contains undecodable bytes.
-
-- Issue #15777: Fix a refleak in _posixsubprocess.
-
-- Issue ##665194: Update `email.utils.localtime` to use datetime.astimezone and
-  correctly handle historic changes in UTC offsets.
-
-- Issue #15199: Fix JavaScript's default MIME type to application/javascript.
-  Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda.
-
-- Issue #12643: `code.InteractiveConsole` now respects `sys.excepthook` when
-  displaying exceptions.  Patch by Aaron Iles.
-
-- Issue #13579: `string.Formatter` now understands the 'a' conversion specifier.
-
-- Issue #15595: Fix ``subprocess.Popen(universal_newlines=True)`` for certain
-  locales (utf-16 and utf-32 family). Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
-
-- Issue #15477: In cmath and math modules, add workaround for platforms whose
-  system-supplied log1p function doesn't respect signs of zeros.
-
-- Issue #15715: `importlib.__import__()` will silence an ImportError when the
-  use of fromlist leads to a failed import.
-
-- Issue #14669: Fix pickling of connections and sockets on Mac OS X by
-  sending/receiving an acknowledgment after file descriptor transfer.
-  TestPicklingConnection has been reenabled for Mac OS X.
-
-- Issue #11062: Fix adding a message from file to Babyl mailbox.
-
-- Issue #15646: Prevent equivalent of a fork bomb when using `multiprocessing`
-  on Windows without the ``if __name__ == '__main__'`` idiom.
-
-IDLE
-----
-
-- Issue #15678: Fix IDLE menus when started from OS X command line (3.3.0b2
-  regression).
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- Touched up the Python 2 to 3 porting guide.
-
-- Issue #14674: Add a discussion of the `json` module's standard compliance.
-  Patch by Chris Rebert.
-
-- Create a 'Concurrent Execution' section in the docs, and split up the
-  'Optional Operating System Services' section to use a more user-centric
-  classification scheme (splitting them across the new CE section, IPC and text
-  processing). Operating system limitations can be reflected with the Sphinx
-  ``:platform:`` tag, it doesn't make sense as part of the Table of Contents.
-
-- Issue #4966: Bring the sequence docs up to date for the Py3k transition and
-  the many language enhancements since they were original written.
-
-- The "path importer" misnomer has been replaced with Eric Snow's
-  more-awkward-but-at-least-not-wrong suggestion of "path based finder" in the
-  import system reference docs.
-
-- Issue #15640: Document `importlib.abc.Finder` as deprecated.
-
-- Issue #15630: Add an example for "continue" stmt in the tutorial.  Patch by
-  Daniel Ellis.
-
-Tests
------
-
-- Issue #15747: ZFS always returns EOPNOTSUPP when attempting to set the
-  UF_IMMUTABLE flag (via either chflags or lchflags); refactor affected tests in
-  test_posix.py to account for this.
-
-- Issue #15285: Refactor the approach for testing connect timeouts using two
-  external hosts that have been configured specifically for this type of test.
-
-- Issue #15743: Remove the deprecated method usage in `urllib` tests. Patch by
-  Jeff Knupp.
-
-- Issue #15615: Add some tests for the `json` module's handling of invalid input
-  data.  Patch by Kushal Das.
-
-Build
------
-
-- Output lib files for PGO build into PGO directory.
-
-- Pick up 32-bit launcher from PGO directory on 64-bit PGO build.
-
-- Drop ``PC\python_nt.h`` as it's not used.  Add input dependency on custom
-  build step.
-
-- Issue #15511: Drop explicit dependency on pythonxy.lib from _decimal amd64
-  configuration.
-
-- Add missing PGI/PGO configurations for pywlauncher.
-
-- Issue #15645: Ensure 2to3 grammar pickles are properly installed.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.3.0 Beta 2?
-==================================
-
-*Release date: 12-Aug-2012*
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Issue #15568: Fix the return value of ``yield from`` when StopIteration is
-  raised by a custom iterator.
-
-- Issue #13119: `sys.stdout` and `sys.stderr` are now using "\r\n" newline on
-  Windows, as Python 2.
-
-- Issue #15534: Fix the fast-search function for non-ASCII Unicode strings.
-
-- Issue #15508: Fix the docstring for `__import__()` to have the proper default
-  value of 0 for 'level' and to not mention negative levels since they are not
-  supported.
-
-- Issue #15425: Eliminated traceback noise from more situations involving
-  importlib.
-
-- Issue #14578: Support modules registered in the Windows registry again.
-
-- Issue #15466: Stop using TYPE_INT64 in marshal, to make importlib.h (and other
-  byte code files) equal between 32-bit and 64-bit systems.
-
-- Issue #1692335: Move initial exception args assignment to
-  `BaseException.__new__()` to help pickling of naive subclasses.
-
-- Issue #12834: Fix `PyBuffer_ToContiguous()` for non-contiguous arrays.
-
-- Issue #15456: Fix code `__sizeof__()` after #12399 change.  Patch by Serhiy
-  Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15404: Refleak in PyMethodObject repr.
-
-- Issue #15394: An issue in `PyModule_Create()` that caused references to be
-  leaked on some error paths has been fixed.  Patch by Julia Lawall.
-
-- Issue #15368: An issue that caused bytecode generation to be non-deterministic
-  has been fixed.
-
-- Issue #15202: Consistently use the name "follow_symlinks" for new parameters
-  in os and shutil functions.
-
-- Issue #15314: ``__main__.__loader__`` is now set correctly during interpreter
-  startup.
-
-- Issue #15111: When a module imported using 'from import' has an ImportError
-  inside itself, don't mask that fact behind a generic ImportError for the
-  module itself.
-
-- Issue #15293: Add GC support to the AST base node type.
-
-- Issue #15291: Fix a memory leak where AST nodes where not properly
-  deallocated.
-
-- Issue #15110: Fix the tracebacks generated by "import xxx" to not show the
-  importlib stack frames.
-
-- Issue #16369: Global PyTypeObjects not initialized with PyType_Ready(...).
-
-- Issue #15020: The program name used to search for Python's path is now
-  "python3" under Unix, not "python".
-
-- Issue #15897: zipimport.c doesn't check return value of fseek().
-  Patch by Felipe Cruz.
-
-- Issue #15033: Fix the exit status bug when modules invoked using -m switch,
-  return the proper failure return value (1). Patch contributed by Jeff Knupp.
-
-- Issue #15229: An `OSError` subclass whose __init__ doesn't call back
-  OSError.__init__ could produce incomplete instances, leading to crashes when
-  calling str() on them.
-
-- Issue #15307: Virtual environments now use symlinks with framework builds on
-  Mac OS X, like other POSIX builds.
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #14590: configparser now correctly strips inline comments when delimiter
-  occurs earlier without preceding space.
-
-- Issue #15424: Add a `__sizeof__()` implementation for array objects.  Patch by
-  Ludwig Hähne.
-
-- Issue #15576: Allow extension modules to act as a package's __init__ module.
-
-- Issue #15502: Have `importlib.invalidate_caches()` work on `sys.meta_path`
-  instead of `sys.path_importer_cache`.
-
-- Issue #15163: Pydoc shouldn't list __loader__ as module data.
-
-- Issue #15471: Do not use mutable objects as defaults for
-  `importlib.__import__()`.
-
-- Issue #15559: To avoid a problematic failure mode when passed to the bytes
-  constructor, objects in the ipaddress module no longer implement `__index__()`
-  (they still implement `__int__()` as appropriate).
-
-- Issue #15546: Fix handling of pathological input data in the peek() and
-  read1() methods of the BZ2File, GzipFile and LZMAFile classes.
-
-- Issue #12655: Instead of requiring a custom type, `os.sched_getaffinity()` and
-  `os.sched_setaffinity()` now use regular sets of integers to represent the
-  CPUs a process is restricted to.
-
-- Issue #15538: Fix compilation of the `socket.getnameinfo()` /
-  `socket.getaddrinfo()` emulation code.  Patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
-
-- Issue #15519: Properly expose WindowsRegistryFinder in importlib (and use the
-  correct term for it).  Original patch by Eric Snow.
-
-- Issue #15502: Bring the importlib ABCs into line with the current state of the
-  import protocols given PEP 420.  Original patch by Eric Snow.
-
-- Issue #15499: Launching a webbrowser in Unix used to sleep for a few seconds.
-  Original patch by Anton Barkovsky.
-
-- Issue #15463: The faulthandler module truncates strings to 500 characters,
-  instead of 100, to be able to display long file paths.
-
-- Issue #6056: Make `multiprocessing` use setblocking(True) on the sockets it
-  uses.  Original patch by J Derek Wilson.
-
-- Issue #15364: Fix sysconfig.get_config_var('srcdir') to be an absolute path.
-
-- Issue #15413: `os.times()` had disappeared under Windows.
-
-- Issue #15402: An issue in the struct module that caused `sys.getsizeof()` to
-  return incorrect results for struct.Struct instances has been fixed.  Initial
-  patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15232: When mangle_from is True, `email.Generator` now correctly
-  mangles lines that start with 'From ' that occur in a MIME preamble or
-  epilogue.
-
-- Issue #15094: Incorrectly placed #endif in _tkinter.c.  Patch by Serhiy
-  Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #13922: `argparse` no longer incorrectly strips '--'s that appear after
-  the first one.
-
-- Issue #12353: `argparse` now correctly handles null argument values.
-
-- Issue #10017, issue #14998: Fix TypeError using pprint on dictionaries with
-  user-defined types as keys or other unorderable keys.
-
-- Issue #15397: `inspect.getmodulename()` is now based directly on importlib via
-  a new `importlib.machinery.all_suffixes()` API.
-
-- Issue #14635: `telnetlib` will use poll() rather than select() when possible to
-  avoid failing due to the select() file descriptor limit.
-
-- Issue #15180: Clarify posixpath.join() error message when mixing str & bytes.
-
-- Issue #15343: pkgutil now includes an iter_importer_modules implementation for
-  importlib.machinery.FileFinder (similar to the way it already handled
-  zipimport.zipimporter).
-
-- Issue #15314: runpy now sets __main__.__loader__ correctly.
-
-- Issue #15357: The import emulation in pkgutil is now deprecated. pkgutil uses
-  importlib internally rather than the emulation.
-
-- Issue #15233: Python now guarantees that callables registered with the atexit
-  module will be called in a deterministic order.
-
-- Issue #15238: `shutil.copystat()` now copies Linux "extended attributes".
-
-- Issue #15230: runpy.run_path now correctly sets __package__ as described in
-  the documentation.
-
-- Issue #15315: Support VS 2010 in distutils cygwincompiler.
-
-- Issue #15294: Fix a regression in pkgutil.extend_path()'s handling of nested
-  namespace packages.
-
-- Issue #15056: `imp.cache_from_source()` and `imp.source_from_cache()` raise
-  NotImplementedError when `sys.implementation.cache_tag` is set to None.
-
-- Issue #15256: Grammatical mistake in exception raised by `imp.find_module()`.
-
-- Issue #5931: `wsgiref` environ variable SERVER_SOFTWARE will specify an
-  implementation specific term like CPython, Jython instead of generic "Python".
-
-- Issue #13248: Remove obsolete argument "max_buffer_size" of BufferedWriter and
-  BufferedRWPair, from the io module.
-
-- Issue #13248: Remove obsolete argument "version" of `argparse.ArgumentParser`.
-
-- Issue #14814: Implement more consistent ordering and sorting behaviour for
-  ipaddress objects.
-
-- Issue #14814: `ipaddress` network objects correctly return NotImplemented when
-  compared to arbitrary objects instead of raising TypeError.
-
-- Issue #14990: Correctly fail with SyntaxError on invalid encoding declaration.
-
-- Issue #14814: `ipaddress` now provides more informative error messages when
-  constructing instances directly (changes permitted during beta due to
-  provisional API status).
-
-- Issue #15247: `io.FileIO` now raises an error when given a file descriptor
-  pointing to a directory.
-
-- Issue #15261: Stop os.stat(fd) crashing on Windows when fd not open.
-
-- Issue #15166: Implement `imp.get_tag()` using `sys.implementation.cache_tag`.
-
-- Issue #15210: Catch KeyError when `importlib.__init__()` can't find
-  _frozen_importlib in sys.modules, not ImportError.
-
-- Issue #15030: `importlib.abc.PyPycLoader` now supports the new source size
-  header field in .pyc files.
-
-- Issue #5346: Preserve permissions of mbox, MMDF and Babyl mailbox files on
-  flush().
-
-- Issue #10571: Fix the "--sign" option of distutils' upload command.  Patch by
-  Jakub Wilk.
-
-- Issue #9559: If messages were only added, a new file is no longer created and
-  renamed over the old file when flush() is called on an mbox, MMDF or Babyl
-  mailbox.
-
-- Issue #10924: Fixed `crypt.mksalt()` to use a RNG that is suitable for
-  cryptographic purpose.
-
-- Issue #15184: Ensure consistent results of OS X configuration tailoring for
-  universal builds by factoring out common OS X-specific customizations from
-  sysconfig, distutils.sysconfig, distutils.util, and distutils.unixccompiler
-  into a new module _osx_support.
-
-C API
------
-
-- Issue #15610: `PyImport_ImportModuleEx()` now uses a 'level' of 0 instead of -1.
-
-- Issue #15169, issue #14599: Strip out the C implementation of
-  `imp.source_from_cache()` used by PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() and
-  used the Python code instead. Leads to PyImport_ExecCodeModuleObject() to not
-  try to infer the source path from the bytecode path as
-  PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() does.
-
-Extension Modules
------------------
-
-- Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields of
-  type `ctypes.c_uint32` and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed.
-
-- Issue #15194: Update libffi to the 3.0.11 release.
-
-IDLE
-----
-
-- Issue #13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog
-  ended with ``\``.  Patch by Roger Serwy.
-
-Tools/Demos
------------
-
-- Issue #15458: python-config gets a new option --configdir to print the $LIBPL
-  value.
-
-- Move importlib.test.benchmark to Tools/importbench.
-
-- Issue #12605: The gdb hooks for debugging CPython (within Tools/gdb) have been
-  enhanced to show information on more C frames relevant to CPython within the
-  "py-bt" and "py-bt-full" commands:
-
-  * C frames that are waiting on the GIL
-  * C frames that are garbage-collecting
-  * C frames that are due to the invocation of a PyCFunction
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
-
-- Issue #15444: Use proper spelling for non-ASCII contributor names.  Patch by
-  Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15295: Reorganize and rewrite the documentation on the import system.
-
-- Issue #15230: Clearly document some of the limitations of the runpy module and
-  nudge readers towards importlib when appropriate.
-
-- Issue #15053: Copy Python 3.3 import lock change notice to all relevant
-  functions in imp instead of just at the top of the relevant section.
-
-- Issue #15288: Link to the term "loader" in notes in pkgutil about how things
-  won't work as expected in Python 3.3 and mark the requisite functions as
-  "changed" since they will no longer work with modules directly imported by
-  import itself.
-
-- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to `exec()` or
-  `execfile()`.
-
-- Issue #15250: Document that `filecmp.dircmp()` compares files shallowly. Patch
-  contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
-
-- Issue #15442: Expose the default list of directories ignored by
-  `filecmp.dircmp()` as a module attribute, and expand the list to more modern
-  values.
-
-Tests
------
-
-- Issue #15467: Move helpers for `__sizeof__()` tests into test_support.  Patch
-  by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15320: Make iterating the list of tests thread-safe when running tests
-  in multiprocess mode. Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
-
-- Issue #15168: Move `importlib.test` to `test.test_importlib`.
-
-- Issue #15091: Reactivate a test on UNIX which was failing thanks to a
-  forgotten `importlib.invalidate_caches()` call.
-
-- Issue #15230: Adopted a more systematic approach in the runpy tests.
-
-- Issue #15300: Ensure the temporary test working directories are in the same
-  parent folder when running tests in multiprocess mode from a Python build.
-  Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
-
-- Issue #15284: Skip {send,recv}msg tests in test_socket when IPv6 is not
-  enabled. Patch by Brian Brazil.
-
-- Issue #15277: Fix a resource leak in support.py when IPv6 is disabled.  Patch
-  by Brian Brazil.
-
-Build
------
-
-- Issue #11715: Fix multiarch detection without having Debian development tools
-  (dpkg-dev) installed.
-
-- Issue #15037: Build OS X installers with local copy of ncurses 5.9 libraries
-  to avoid curses.unget_wch bug present in older versions of ncurses such as
-  those shipped with OS X.
-
-- Issue #15560: Fix building _sqlite3 extension on OS X with an SDK.  Also, for
-  OS X installers, ensure consistent sqlite3 behavior and feature availability
-  by building a local copy of libsqlite3 rather than depending on the wide range
-  of versions supplied with various OS X releases.
-
-- Issue #8847: Disable COMDAT folding in Windows PGO builds.
-
-- Issue #14018: Fix OS X Tcl/Tk framework checking when using OS X SDKs.
-
-- Issue #16256: OS X installer now sets correct permissions for doc directory.
-
-- Issue #15431: Add _freeze_importlib project to regenerate importlib.h on
-  Windows. Patch by Kristján Valur Jónsson.
-
-- Issue #14197: For OS X framework builds, ensure links to the shared library
-  are created with the proper ABI suffix.
-
-- Issue #14330: For cross builds, don't use host python, use host search paths
-  for host compiler.
-
-- Issue #15235: Allow Berkley DB versions up to 5.3 to build the dbm module.
-
-- Issue #15268: Search curses.h in /usr/include/ncursesw.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.3.0 Beta 1?
-==================================
-
-*Release date: 27-Jun-2012*
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Fix a (most likely) very rare memory leak when calling main() and not being
-  able to decode a command-line argument.
-
-- Issue #14815: Use Py_ssize_t instead of long for the object hash, to
-  preserve all 64 bits of hash on Win64.
-
-- Issue #12268: File readline, readlines and read() or readall() methods
-  no longer lose data when an underlying read system call is interrupted.
-  IOError is no longer raised due to a read system call returning EINTR
-  from within these methods.
-
-- Issue #11626: Add _SizeT functions to stable ABI.
-
-- Issue #15142: Fix reference leak when deallocating instances of types
-  created using PyType_FromSpec().
-
-- Issue #10053: Don't close FDs when FileIO.__init__ fails. Loosely based on
-  the work by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
-
-- Issue #15096: Removed support for ur'' as the raw notation isn't
-  compatible with Python 2.x's raw unicode strings.
-
-- Issue #13783: Generator objects now use the identifier APIs internally
-
-- Issue #14874: Restore charmap decoding speed to pre-PEP 393 levels.
-  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15026: utf-16 encoding is now significantly faster (up to 10x).
-  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #11022: open() and io.TextIOWrapper are now calling
-  locale.getpreferredencoding(False) instead of locale.getpreferredencoding()
-  in text mode if the encoding is not specified. Don't change temporary the
-  locale encoding using locale.setlocale(), use the current locale encoding
-  instead of the user preferred encoding.
-
-- Issue #14673: Add Eric Snow's sys.implementation implementation.
-
-- Issue #15038: Optimize python Locks on Windows.
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #12288: Consider '0' and '0.0' as valid initialvalue
-  for tkinter SimpleDialog.
-
-- Issue #15512: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for parser.
-  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15469: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for deque objects.
-  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15489: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for BytesIO objects.
-  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15487: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for buffered I/O objects.
-  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15514: Correct __sizeof__ support for cpu_set.
-  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15177: Added dir_fd parameter to os.fwalk().
-
-- Issue #15061: Re-implemented hmac.compare_digest() in C to prevent further
-  timing analysis and to support all buffer protocol aware objects as well as
-  ASCII only str instances safely.
-
-- Issue #15164: Change return value of platform.uname() from a
-  plain tuple to a collections.namedtuple.
-
-- Support Mageia Linux in the platform module.
-
-- Issue #11678: Support Arch linux in the platform module.
-
-- Issue #15118: Change return value of os.uname() and os.times() from
-  plain tuples to immutable iterable objects with named attributes
-  (structseq objects).
-
-- Speed up _decimal by another 10-15% by caching the thread local context
-  that was last accessed. In the pi benchmark (64-bit platform, prec=9),
-  _decimal is now only 1.5x slower than float.
-
-- Remove the packaging module, which is not ready for prime time.
-
-- Issue #15154: Add "dir_fd" parameter to os.rmdir, remove "rmdir"
-  parameter from os.remove / os.unlink.
-
-- Issue #4489: Add a shutil.rmtree that isn't susceptible to symlink attacks.
-  It is used automatically on platforms supporting the necessary os.openat()
-  and os.unlinkat() functions. Main code by Martin von Löwis.
-
-- Issue #15156: HTMLParser now uses the new "html.entities.html5" dictionary.
-
-- Issue #11113: add a new "html5" dictionary containing the named character
-  references defined by the HTML5 standard and the equivalent Unicode
-  character(s) to the html.entities module.
-
-- Issue #15114: the strict mode of HTMLParser and the HTMLParseError exception
-  are deprecated now that the parser is able to parse invalid markup.
-
-- Issue #3665: \u and \U escapes are now supported in unicode regular
-  expressions.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15153: Added inspect.getgeneratorlocals to simplify white box
-  testing of generator state updates
-
-- Issue #13062: Added inspect.getclosurevars to simplify testing stateful
-  closures
-
-- Issue #11024: Fixes and additional tests for Time2Internaldate.
-
-- Issue #14626: Large refactoring of functions / parameters in the os module.
-  Many functions now support "dir_fd" and "follow_symlinks" parameters;
-  some also support accepting an open file descriptor in place of a path
-  string.  Added os.support_* collections as LBYL helpers.  Removed many
-  functions only previously seen in 3.3 alpha releases (often starting with
-  "f" or "l", or ending with "at").  Originally suggested by Serhiy Storchaka;
-  implemented by Larry Hastings.
-
-- Issue #15008: Implement PEP 362 "Signature Objects".
-  Patch by Yury Selivanov.
-
-- Issue: #15138: base64.urlsafe_{en,de}code() are now 3-4x faster.
-
-- Issue #444582: Add shutil.which, for finding programs on the system path.
-  Original patch by Erik Demaine, with later iterations by Jan Killian
-  and Brian Curtin.
-
-- Issue #14837: SSL errors now have ``library`` and ``reason`` attributes
-  describing precisely what happened and in which OpenSSL submodule.  The
-  str() of a SSLError is also enhanced accordingly.
-
-- Issue #9527: datetime.astimezone() method will now supply a class
-  timezone instance corresponding to the system local timezone when
-  called with no arguments.
-
-- Issue #14653: email.utils.mktime_tz() no longer relies on system
-  mktime() when timezone offest is supplied.
-
-- Issue #14684: zlib.compressobj() and zlib.decompressobj() now support the use
-  of predefined compression dictionaries. Original patch by Sam Rushing.
-
-- Fix GzipFile's handling of filenames given as bytes objects.
-
-- Issue #14772: Return destination values from some shutil functions.
-
-- Issue #15064: Implement context manager protocol for multiprocessing types
-
-- Issue #15101: Make pool finalizer avoid joining current thread.
-
-- Issue #14657: The frozen instance of importlib used for bootstrap is now
-  also the module imported as importlib._bootstrap.
-
-- Issue #14055: Add __sizeof__ support to _elementtree.
-
-- Issue #15054: A bug in tokenize.tokenize that caused string literals
-  with 'b' prefixes to be incorrectly tokenized has been fixed.
-  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15006: Allow equality comparison between naive and aware
-  time or datetime objects.
-
-- Issue #15036: Mailbox no longer throws an error if a flush is done
-  between operations when removing or changing multiple items in mbox,
-  MMDF, or Babyl mailboxes.
-
-- Issue #14059: Implement multiprocessing.Barrier.
-
-- Issue #15061: The inappropriately named hmac.secure_compare has been
-  renamed to hmac.compare_digest, restricted to operating on bytes inputs
-  only and had its documentation updated to more accurately reflect both its
-  intent and its limitations
-
-- Issue #13841: Make child processes exit using sys.exit() on Windows.
-
-- Issue #14936: curses_panel was converted to PEP 3121 and PEP 384 API.
-  Patch by Robin Schreiber.
-
-- Issue #1667546: On platforms supporting tm_zone and tm_gmtoff fields
-  in struct tm, time.struct_time objects returned by time.gmtime(),
-  time.localtime() and time.strptime() functions now have tm_zone and
-  tm_gmtoff attributes.  Original patch by Paul Boddie.
-
-- Rename adjusted attribute to adjustable in time.get_clock_info() result.
-
-- Issue #3518: Remove references to non-existent BaseManager.from_address()
-  method.
-
-- Issue #13857: Added textwrap.indent() function (initial patch by Ezra
-  Berch)
-
-- Issue #2736: Added datetime.timestamp() method.
-
-- Issue #13854: Make multiprocessing properly handle non-integer
-  non-string argument to SystemExit.
-
-- Issue #12157: Make pool.map() empty iterables correctly.  Initial
-  patch by mouad.
-
-- Issue #11823: disassembly now shows argument counts on calls with keyword args.
-
-- Issue #14711: os.stat_float_times() has been deprecated.
-
-- LZMAFile now accepts the modes "rb"/"wb"/"ab" as synonyms of "r"/"w"/"a".
-
-- The bz2 and lzma modules now each contain an open() function, allowing
-  compressed files to readily be opened in text mode as well as binary mode.
-
-- BZ2File.__init__() and LZMAFile.__init__() now accept a file object as their
-  first argument, rather than requiring a separate "fileobj" argument.
-
-- gzip.open() now accepts file objects as well as filenames.
-
-- Issue #14992: os.makedirs(path, exist_ok=True) would raise an OSError
-  when the path existed and had the S_ISGID mode bit set when it was
-  not explicitly asked for.  This is no longer an exception as mkdir
-  cannot control if the OS sets that bit for it or not.
-
-- Issue #14989: Make the CGI enable option to http.server available via command
-  line.
-
-- Issue #14987: Add a missing import statement to inspect.
-
-- Issue #1079: email.header.decode_header now correctly parses all the examples
-  in RFC2047.  There is a necessary visible behavior change: the leading and/or
-  trailing whitespace on ASCII parts is now preserved.
-
-- Issue #14969: Better handling of exception chaining in contextlib.ExitStack
-
-- Issue #14963: Convert contextlib.ExitStack.__exit__ to use an iterative
-  algorithm (Patch by Alon Horev)
-
-- Issue #14785: Add sys._debugmallocstats() to help debug low-level memory
-  allocation issues
-
-- Issue #14443: Ensure that .py files are byte-compiled with the correct Python
-  executable within bdist_rpm even on older versions of RPM
-
-C-API
------
-
-- Issue #15146: Add PyType_FromSpecWithBases. Patch by Robin Schreiber.
-
-- Issue #15042: Add PyState_AddModule and PyState_RemoveModule. Add version
-  guard for Py_LIMITED_API additions. Patch by Robin Schreiber.
-
-- Issue #13783: Inadvertent additions to the public C API in the PEP 380
-  implementation have either been removed or marked as private interfaces.
-
-Extension Modules
------------------
-
-- Issue #15000: Support the "unique" x32 architecture in _posixsubprocess.c.
-
-IDLE
-----
-
-- Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open.
-  Patch by Roger Serwy.
-
-- Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
-  options.  Patch by Roger Serwy.
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- Issue #15176: Clarified behavior, documentation, and implementation
-  of os.listdir().
-
-- Issue #14982: Document that pkgutil's iteration functions require the
-  non-standard iter_modules() method to be defined by an importer (something
-  the importlib importers do not define).
-
-- Issue #15081: Document PyState_FindModule.
-  Patch by Robin Schreiber.
-
-- Issue #14814: Added first draft of ipaddress module API reference
-
-Tests
------
-
-- Issue #15187: Bugfix: remove temporary directories test_shutil was leaving
-  behind.
-
-- Issue #14769: test_capi now has SkipitemTest, which cleverly checks
-  for "parity" between PyArg_ParseTuple() and the Python/getargs.c static
-  function skipitem() for all possible "format units".
-
-- test_nntplib now tolerates being run from behind NNTP gateways that add
-  "X-Antivirus" headers to articles
-
-- Issue #15043: test_gdb is now skipped entirely if gdb security settings
-  block loading of the gdb hooks
-
-- Issue #14963: Add test cases for exception handling behaviour
-  in contextlib.ExitStack (Initial patch by Alon Horev)
-
-Build
------
-
-- Issue #13590: Improve support for OS X Xcode 4:
-    * Try to avoid building Python or extension modules with problematic
-      llvm-gcc compiler.
-    * Since Xcode 4 removes ppc support, extension module builds now
-      check for ppc compiler support and automatically remove ppc and
-      ppc64 archs when not available.
-    * Since Xcode 4 no longer install SDKs in default locations,
-      extension module builds now revert to using installed headers
-      and libs if the SDK used to build the interpreter is not
-      available.
-    * Update ./configure to use better defaults for universal builds;
-      in particular, --enable-universalsdk=yes uses the Xcode default
-      SDK and --with-universal-archs now defaults to "intel" if ppc
-      not available.
-
-- Issue #14225: Fix Unicode support for curses (#12567) on OS X
-
-- Issue #14928: Fix importlib bootstrap issues by using a custom executable
-  (Modules/_freeze_importlib) to build Python/importlib.h.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.3.0 Alpha 4?
-===================================
-
-*Release date: 31-May-2012*
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Issue #14835: Make plistlib output empty arrays & dicts like OS X.
-  Patch by Sidney San Martín.
-
-- Issue #14744: Use the new _PyUnicodeWriter internal API to speed up
-  str%args and str.format(args).
-
-- Issue #14930: Make memoryview objects weakrefable.
-
-- Issue #14775: Fix a potential quadratic dict build-up due to the garbage
-  collector repeatedly trying to untrack dicts.
-
-- Issue #14857: fix regression in references to PEP 3135 implicit __class__
-  closure variable (Reopens issue #12370)
-
-- Issue #14712 (PEP 405): Virtual environments. Implemented by Vinay Sajip.
-
-- Issue #14660 (PEP 420): Namespace packages. Implemented by Eric Smith.
-
-- Issue #14494: Fix __future__.py and its documentation to note that
-  absolute imports are the default behavior in 3.0 instead of 2.7.
-  Patch by Sven Marnach.
-
-- Issue #9260: A finer-grained import lock.  Most of the import sequence
-  now uses per-module locks rather than the global import lock, eliminating
-  well-known issues with threads and imports.
-
-- Issue #14624: UTF-16 decoding is now 3x to 4x faster on various inputs.
-  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- asdl_seq and asdl_int_seq are now Py_ssize_t sized.
-
-- Issue #14133 (PEP 415): Implement suppression of __context__ display with an
-  attribute on BaseException. This replaces the original mechanism of PEP 409.
-
-- Issue #14417: Mutating a dict during lookup now restarts the lookup instead
-  of raising a RuntimeError (undoes issue #14205).
-
-- Issue #14738: Speed-up UTF-8 decoding on non-ASCII data.  Patch by Serhiy
-  Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #14700: Fix two broken and undefined-behaviour-inducing overflow checks
-  in old-style string formatting.
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #14690: Use monotonic clock instead of system clock in the sched,
-  subprocess and trace modules.
-
-- Issue #14443: Tell rpmbuild to use the correct version of Python in
-  bdist_rpm. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
-
-- Issue #12515: email now registers a defect if it gets to EOF while parsing
-  a MIME part without seeing the closing MIME boundary.
-
-- Issue #1672568: email now always decodes base64 payloads, adding padding and
-  ignoring non-base64-alphabet characters if needed, and registering defects
-  for any such problems.
-
-- Issue #14925: email now registers a defect when the parser decides that there
-  is a missing header/body separator line.  MalformedHeaderDefect, which the
-  existing code would never actually generate, is deprecated.
-
-- Issue #10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing even when
-  the parent window is closed before the dialog. Patch by Roger Serwy.
-
-- Issue #8739: Updated smtpd to support RFC 5321, and added support for the
-  RFC 1870 SIZE extension.
-
-- Issue #665194: Added a localtime function to email.utils to provide an
-  aware local datetime for use in setting Date headers.
-
-- Issue #12586: Added new provisional policies that implement convenient
-  unicode support for email headers.  See What's New for details.
-
-- Issue #14731: Refactored email Policy framework to support full backward
-  compatibility with Python 3.2 by default yet allow for the introduction of
-  new features through new policies.  Note that Policy.must_be_7bit is renamed
-  to cte_type.
-
-- Issue #14876: Use user-selected font for highlight configuration.
-
-- Issue #14920: Fix the help(urllib.parse) failure on locale C on terminals.
-  Have ascii characters in help.
-
-- Issue #14548: Make multiprocessing finalizers check pid before
-  running to cope with possibility of gc running just after fork.
-
-- Issue #14036: Add an additional check to validate that port in urlparse does
-  not go in illegal range and returns None.
-
-- Issue #14862: Add missing names to os.__all__
-
-- Issue #14875: Use float('inf') instead of float('1e66666') in the json module.
-
-- Issue #13585: Added contextlib.ExitStack
-
-- PEP 3144, Issue #14814: Added the ipaddress module
-
-- Issue #14426: Correct the Date format in Expires attribute of Set-Cookie
-  Header in Cookie.py.
-
-- Issue #14588: The types module now provide new_class() and prepare_class()
-  functions to support PEP 3115 compliant dynamic class creation. Patch by
-  Daniel Urban and Nick Coghlan.
-
-- Issue #13152: Allow to specify a custom tabsize for expanding tabs in
-  textwrap. Patch by John Feuerstein.
-
-- Issue #14721: Send the correct 'Content-length: 0' header when the body is an
-  empty string ''. Initial Patch contributed by Arve Knudsen.
-
-- Issue #14072: Fix parsing of 'tel' URIs in urlparse by making the check for
-  ports stricter.
-
-- Issue #9374: Generic parsing of query and fragment portions of url for any
-  scheme. Supported both by RFC3986 and RFC2396.
-
-- Issue #14798: Fix the functions in pyclbr to raise an ImportError
-  when the first part of a dotted name is not a package. Patch by
-  Xavier de Gaye.
-
-- Issue #12098: multiprocessing on Windows now starts child processes
-  using the same sys.flags as the current process.  Initial patch by
-  Sergey Mezentsev.
-
-- Issue #13031: Small speed-up for tarfile when unzipping tarfiles.
-  Patch by Justin Peel.
-
-- Issue #14780: urllib.request.urlopen() now has a ``cadefault`` argument
-  to use the default certificate store.  Initial patch by James Oakley.
-
-- Issue #14829: Fix bisect and range() indexing with large indices
-  (>= 2 ** 32) under 64-bit Windows.
-
-- Issue #14732: The _csv module now uses PEP 3121 module initialization.
-  Patch by Robin Schreiber.
-
-- Issue #14809: Add HTTP status codes introduced by RFC 6585 to http.server
-  and http.client. Patch by EungJun Yi.
-
-- Issue #14777: tkinter may return undecoded UTF-8 bytes as a string when
-  accessing the Tk clipboard.  Modify clipboad_get() to first request type
-  UTF8_STRING when no specific type is requested in an X11 windowing
-  environment, falling back to the current default type STRING if that fails.
-  Original patch by Thomas Kluyver.
-
-- Issue #14773: Fix os.fwalk() failing on dangling symlinks.
-
-- Issue #12541: Be lenient with quotes around Realm field of HTTP Basic
-  Authentation in urllib2.
-
-- Issue #14807: move undocumented tarfile.filemode() to stat.filemode() and add
-  doc entry. Add tarfile.filemode alias with deprecation warning.
-
-- Issue #13815: TarFile.extractfile() now returns io.BufferedReader objects.
-
-- Issue #14532: Add a secure_compare() helper to the hmac module, to mitigate
-  timing attacks. Patch by Jon Oberheide.
-
-- Add importlib.util.resolve_name().
-
-- Issue #14366: Support lzma compression in zip files.
-  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #13959: Introduce importlib.find_loader() and document
-  imp.find_module/load_module as deprecated.
-
-- Issue #14082: shutil.copy2() now copies extended attributes, if possible.
-  Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
-
-- Issue #13959: Make importlib.abc.FileLoader.load_module()/get_filename() and
-  importlib.machinery.ExtensionFileLoader.load_module() have their single
-  argument be optional. Allows for the replacement (and thus deprecation) of
-  imp.load_source()/load_package()/load_compiled().
-
-- Issue #13959: imp.get_suffixes() has been deprecated in favour of the new
-  attributes on importlib.machinery: SOURCE_SUFFIXES, DEBUG_BYTECODE_SUFFIXES,
-  OPTIMIZED_BYTECODE_SUFFIXES, BYTECODE_SUFFIXES, and EXTENSION_SUFFIXES. This
-  led to an indirect deprecation of inspect.getmoduleinfo().
-
-- Issue #14662: Prevent shutil failures on OS X when destination does not
-  support chflag operations.  Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
-
-- Issue #14157: Fix time.strptime failing without a year on February 29th.
-  Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
-
-- Issue #14753: Make multiprocessing's handling of negative timeouts
-  the same as it was in Python 3.2.
-
-- Issue #14583: Fix importlib bug when a package's __init__.py would first
-  import one of its modules then raise an error.
-
-- Issue #14741: Fix missing support for Ellipsis ('...') in parser module.
-
-- Issue #14697: Fix missing support for set displays and set comprehensions in
-  parser module.
-
-- Issue #14701: Fix missing support for 'raise ... from' in parser module.
-
-- Add support for timeouts to the acquire() methods of
-  multiprocessing's lock/semaphore/condition proxies.
-
-- Issue #13989: Add support for text mode to gzip.open().
-
-- Issue #14127: The os.stat() result object now provides three additional
-  fields: st_ctime_ns, st_mtime_ns, and st_atime_ns, providing those times as an
-  integer with nanosecond resolution.  The functions os.utime(), os.lutimes(),
-  and os.futimes() now accept a new parameter, ns, which accepts mtime and atime
-  as integers with nanosecond resolution.
-
-- Issue #14127 and #10148: shutil.copystat now preserves exact mtime and atime
-  on filesystems providing nanosecond resolution.
-
-IDLE
-----
-
-- Issue #14958: Change IDLE systax highlighting to recognize all string and
-  byte literals supported in Python 3.3.
-
-- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
-
-- Issue #14929: Stop IDLE 3.x from closing on Unicode decode errors when
-  grepping. Patch by Roger Serwy.
-
-- Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes IDLE.
-  Other tooltipss have been corrected or improved and the number of tests
-  has been tripled. Original patch by Roger Serwy.
-
-Tools/Demos
------------
-
-- Issue #14695: Bring Tools/parser/unparse.py support up to date with
-  the Python 3.3 Grammar.
-
-Build
------
-
-- Issue #14472: Update .gitignore. Patch by Matej Cepl.
-
-- Upgrade Windows library versions: bzip 1.0.6, OpenSSL 1.0.1c.
-
-- Issue #14693: Under non-Windows platforms, hashlib's fallback modules are
-  always compiled, even if OpenSSL is present at build time.
-
-- Issue #13210: Windows build now uses VS2010, ported from VS2008.
-
-C-API
------
-
-- Issue #14705: The PyArg_Parse() family of functions now support the 'p' format
-  unit, which accepts a "boolean predicate" argument.  It converts any Python
-  value into an integer--0 if it is "false", and 1 otherwise.
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- Issue #14863: Update the documentation of os.fdopen() to reflect the
-  fact that it's only a thin wrapper around open() anymore.
-
-- Issue #14588: The language reference now accurately documents the Python 3
-  class definition process. Patch by Nick Coghlan.
-
-- Issue #14943: Correct a default argument value for winreg.OpenKey
-  and correctly list the argument names in the function's explanation.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.3.0 Alpha 3?
-===================================
-
-*Release date: 01-May-2012*
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Issue #14699: Fix calling the classmethod descriptor directly.
-
-- Issue #14433: Prevent msvcrt crash in interactive prompt when stdin is closed.
-
-- Issue #14521: Make result of float('nan') and float('-nan') more consistent
-  across platforms.
-
-- Issue #14646: __import__() sets __loader__ if the loader did not.
-
-- Issue #14605: No longer have implicit entries in sys.meta_path. If
-  sys.meta_path is found to be empty, raise ImportWarning.
-
-- Issue #14605: No longer have implicit entries in sys.path_hooks. If
-  sys.path_hooks is found to be empty, a warning will be raised. None is now
-  inserted into sys.path_importer_cache if no finder was discovered. This also
-  means imp.NullImporter is no longer implicitly used.
-
-- Issue #13903: Implement PEP 412. Individual dictionary instances can now share
-  their keys with other dictionaries. Classes take advantage of this to share
-  their instance dictionary keys for improved memory and performance.
-
-- Issue #11603 (again): Setting __repr__ to __str__ now raises a RuntimeError
-  when repr() or str() is called on such an object.
-
-- Issue #14658: Fix binding a special method to a builtin implementation of a
-  special method with a different name.
-
-- Issue #14630: Fix a memory access bug for instances of a subclass of int
-  with value 0.
-
-- Issue #14339: Speed improvements to bin, oct and hex functions.  Patch by
-  Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #14385: It is now possible to use a custom type for the __builtins__
-  namespace, instead of a dict. It can be used for sandboxing for example.
-  Raise also a NameError instead of ImportError if __build_class__ name if not
-  found in __builtins__.
-
-- Issue #12599: Be more strict in accepting None compared to a false-like
-  object for importlib.util.module_for_loader and
-  importlib.machinery.PathFinder.
-
-- Issue #14612: Fix jumping around with blocks by setting f_lineno.
-
-- Issue #14592: Attempting a relative import w/o __package__ or __name__ set in
-  globals raises a KeyError.
-
-- Issue #14607: Fix keyword-only arguments which started with ``__``.
-
-- Issue #10854: The ImportError raised when an extension module on Windows
-  fails to import now uses the new path and name attributes from
-  Issue #1559549.
-
-- Issue #13889: Check and (if necessary) set FPU control word before calling
-  any of the dtoa.c string <-> float conversion functions, on MSVC builds of
-  Python.  This fixes issues when embedding Python in a Delphi app.
-
-- __import__() now matches PEP 328 and documentation by defaulting 'index' to 0
-  instead of -1 and removing support for negative values.
-
-- Issue #2377: Make importlib the implementation of __import__().
-
-- Issue #1559549: ImportError now has 'name' and 'path' attributes that are set
-  using keyword arguments to its constructor. They are currently not set by
-  import as they are meant for use by importlib.
-
-- Issue #14474: Save and restore exception state in thread.start_new_thread()
-  while writing error message if the thread leaves a unhandled exception.
-
-- Issue #13019: Fix potential reference leaks in bytearray.extend().  Patch
-  by Suman Saha.
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #14768: os.path.expanduser('~/a') doesn't works correctly when HOME is '/'.
-
-- Issue #14371: Support bzip2 in zipfile module.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #13183: Fix pdb skipping frames after hitting a breakpoint and running
-  step.  Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
-
-- Issue #14696: Fix parser module to understand 'nonlocal' declarations.
-
-- Issue #10941: Fix imaplib.Internaldate2tuple to produce correct result near
-  the DST transition.  Patch by Joe Peterson.
-
-- Issue #9154: Fix parser module to understand function annotations.
-
-- Issue #6085: In http.server.py SimpleHTTPServer.address_string returns the
-  client ip address instead client hostname. Patch by Charles-François Natali.
-
-- Issue #14309: Deprecate time.clock(), use time.perf_counter() or
-  time.process_time() instead.
-
-- Issue #14428: Implement the PEP 418. Add time.get_clock_info(),
-  time.perf_counter() and time.process_time() functions, and rename
-  time.steady() to time.monotonic().
-
-- Issue #14646: importlib.util.module_for_loader() now sets __loader__ and
-  __package__ (when possible).
-
-- Issue #14664: It is now possible to use @unittest.skip{If,Unless} on a
-  test class that doesn't inherit from TestCase (i.e. a mixin).
-
-- Issue #4892: multiprocessing Connections can now be transferred over
-  multiprocessing Connections.  Patch by Richard Oudkerk (sbt).
-
-- Issue #14160: TarFile.extractfile() failed to resolve symbolic links when
-  the links were not located in an archive subdirectory.
-
-- Issue #14638: pydoc now treats non-string __name__ values as if they
-  were missing, instead of raising an error.
-
-- Issue #13684: Fix httplib tunnel issue of infinite loops for certain sites
-  which send EOF without trailing \r\n.
-
-- Issue #14605: Add importlib.abc.FileLoader, importlib.machinery.(FileFinder,
-  SourceFileLoader, SourcelessFileLoader, ExtensionFileLoader).
-
-- Issue #13959: imp.cache_from_source()/source_from_cache() now follow
-  os.path.join()/split() semantics for path manipulation instead of its prior,
-  custom semantics of caring the right-most path separator forward in path
-  joining.
-
-- Issue #2193: Allow ":" character in Cookie NAME values.
-
-- Issue #14629: tokenizer.detect_encoding will specify the filename in the
-  SyntaxError exception if found at readline.__self__.name.
-
-- Issue #14629: Raise SyntaxError in tokenizer.detect_encoding if the
-  first two lines have non-UTF-8 characters without an encoding declaration.
-
-- Issue #14308: Fix an exception when a "dummy" thread is in the threading
-  module's active list after a fork().
-
-- Issue #11750: The Windows API functions scattered in the _subprocess and
-  _multiprocessing.win32 modules now live in a single module "_winapi".
-  Patch by sbt.
-
-- Issue #14087: multiprocessing: add Condition.wait_for(). Patch by sbt.
-
-- Issue #14538: HTMLParser can now parse correctly start tags that contain
-  a bare '/'.
-
-- Issue #14452: SysLogHandler no longer inserts a UTF-8 BOM into the message.
-
-- Issue #14386: Expose the dict_proxy internal type as types.MappingProxyType.
-
-- Issue #13959: Make imp.reload() always use a module's __loader__ to perform
-  the reload.
-
-- Issue #13959: Add imp.py and rename the built-in module to _imp, allowing for
-  re-implementing parts of the module in pure Python.
-
-- Issue #13496: Fix potential overflow in bisect.bisect algorithm when applied
-  to a collection of size > sys.maxsize / 2.
-
-- Have importlib take advantage of ImportError's new 'name' and 'path'
-  attributes.
-
-- Issue #14399: zipfile now recognizes that the archive has been modified even
-  if only the comment is changed.  In addition, the TypeError that results from
-  trying to set a non-binary value as a comment is now raised at the time
-  the comment is set rather than at the time the zipfile is written.
-
-- trace.CoverageResults.is_ignored_filename() now ignores any name that starts
-  with "<" and ends with ">" instead of special-casing "<string>" and
-  "<doctest ".
-
-- Issue #12537: The mailbox module no longer depends on knowledge of internal
-  implementation details of the email package Message object.
-
-- Issue #7978: socketserver now restarts the select() call when EINTR is
-  returned.  This avoids crashing the server loop when a signal is received.
-  Patch by Jerzy Kozera.
-
-- Issue #14522: Avoid duplicating socket handles in multiprocessing.connection.
-  Patch by sbt.
-
-- Don't Py_DECREF NULL variable in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder.
-
-- Issue #3033: Add displayof parameter to tkinter font. Patch by Guilherme Polo.
-
-- Issue #14482: Raise a ValueError, not a NameError, when trying to create
-  a multiprocessing Client or Listener with an AF_UNIX type address under
-  Windows.  Patch by Popa Claudiu.
-
-- Issue #802310: Generate always unique tkinter font names if not directly passed.
-
-- Issue #14151: Raise a ValueError, not a NameError, when trying to create
-  a multiprocessing Client or Listener with an AF_PIPE type address under
-  non-Windows platforms.  Patch by Popa Claudiu.
-
-- Issue #14493: Use gvfs-open or xdg-open in webbrowser.
-
-Build
------
-
-- "make touch" will now touch generated files that are checked into Mercurial,
-  after a "hg update" which failed to bring the timestamps into the right order.
-
-Tests
------
-
-- Issue #14026: In test_cmd_line_script, check that sys.argv is populated
-  correctly for the various invocation approaches (Patch by Jason Yeo)
-
-- Issue #14032: Fix incorrect variable name in test_cmd_line_script debugging
-  message (Patch by Jason Yeo)
-
-- Issue #14589: Update certificate chain for sha256.tbs-internet.com, fixing
-  a test failure in test_ssl.
-
-- Issue #14355: Regrtest now supports the standard unittest test loading, and
-  will use it if a test file contains no `test_main` method.
-
-IDLE
-----
-
-- Issue #8515: Set __file__ when run file in IDLE.
-  Initial patch by Bruce Frederiksen.
-
-- Issue #14496: Fix wrong name in idlelib/tabbedpages.py.
-  Patch by Popa Claudiu.
-
-Tools / Demos
--------------
-
-- Issue #3561: The Windows installer now has an option, off by default, for
-  placing the Python installation into the system "Path" environment variable.
-
-- Issue #13165: stringbench is now available in the Tools/stringbench folder.
-  It used to live in its own SVN project.
-
-C-API
------
-
-- Issue #14098: New functions PyErr_GetExcInfo and PyErr_SetExcInfo.
-  Patch by Stefan Behnel.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.3.0 Alpha 2?
-===================================
-
-*Release date: 01-Apr-2012*
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Issue #1683368: object.__new__ and object.__init__ raise a TypeError if they
-  are passed arguments and their complementary method is not overridden.
-
-- Issue #14378: Fix compiling ast.ImportFrom nodes with a "__future__" string as
-  the module name that was not interned.
-
-- Issue #14331: Use significantly less stack space when importing modules by
-  allocating path buffers on the heap instead of the stack.
-
-- Issue #14334: Prevent in a segfault in type.__getattribute__ when it was not
-  passed strings.
-
-- Issue #1469629: Allow cycles through an object's __dict__ slot to be
-  collected. (For example if ``x.__dict__ is x``).
-
-- Issue #14205: dict lookup raises a RuntimeError if the dict is modified
-  during a lookup.
-
-- Issue #14220: When a generator is delegating to another iterator with the
-  yield from syntax, it needs to have its ``gi_running`` flag set to True.
-
-- Issue #14435: Remove dedicated block allocator from floatobject.c and rely
-  on the PyObject_Malloc() api like all other objects.
-
-- Issue #14471: Fix a possible buffer overrun in the winreg module.
-
-- Issue #14288: Allow the serialization of builtin iterators
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #14300: Under Windows, sockets created using socket.dup() now allow
-  overlapped I/O.  Patch by sbt.
-
-- Issue #13872: socket.detach() now marks the socket closed (as mirrored
-  in the socket repr()).  Patch by Matt Joiner.
-
-- Issue #14406: Fix a race condition when using ``concurrent.futures.wait(
-  return_when=ALL_COMPLETED)``.  Patch by Matt Joiner.
-
-- Issue #5136: deprecate old, unused functions from tkinter.
-
-- Issue #14416: syslog now defines the LOG_ODELAY and LOG_AUTHPRIV constants
-  if they are defined in <syslog.h>.
-
-- Issue #14295: Add unittest.mock
-
-- Issue #7652: Add --with-system-libmpdec option to configure for linking
-  the _decimal module against an installed libmpdec.
-
-- Issue #14380: MIMEText now defaults to utf-8 when passed non-ASCII unicode
-  with no charset specified.
-
-- Issue #10340: asyncore - properly handle EINVAL in dispatcher constructor on
-  OSX; avoid to call handle_connect in case of a disconnected socket which
-  was not meant to connect.
-
-- Issue #14204: The ssl module now has support for the Next Protocol
-  Negotiation extension, if available in the underlying OpenSSL library.
-  Patch by Colin Marc.
-
-- Issue #3035: Unused functions from tkinter are marked as pending deprecated.
-
-- Issue #12757: Fix the skipping of doctests when python is run with -OO so
-  that it works in unittest's verbose mode as well as non-verbose mode.
-
-- Issue #7652: Integrate the decimal floating point libmpdec library to speed
-  up the decimal module. Performance gains of the new C implementation are
-  between 10x and 100x, depending on the application.
-
-- Issue #14269: SMTPD now conforms to the RFC and requires a HELO command
-  before MAIL, RCPT, or DATA.
-
-- Issue #13694: asynchronous connect in asyncore.dispatcher does not set addr
-  attribute.
-
-- Issue #14344: fixed the repr of email.policy objects.
-
-- Issue #11686: Added missing entries to email package __all__ lists
-  (mostly the new Bytes classes).
-
-- Issue #14335: multiprocessing's custom Pickler subclass now inherits from
-  the C-accelerated implementation.  Patch by sbt.
-
-- Issue #10484: Fix the CGIHTTPServer's PATH_INFO handling problem.
-
-- Issue #11199: Fix the with urllib which hangs on particular ftp urls.
-
-- Improve the memory utilization and speed of functools.lru_cache.
-
-- Issue #14222: Use the new time.steady() function instead of time.time() for
-  timeout in queue and threading modules to not be affected of system time
-  update.
-
-- Issue #13248: Remove lib2to3.pytree.Base.get_prefix/set_prefix.
-
-- Issue #14234: CVE-2012-0876: Randomize hashes of xml attributes in the hash
-  table internal to the pyexpat module's copy of the expat library to avoid a
-  denial of service due to hash collisions.  Patch by David Malcolm with some
-  modifications by the expat project.
-
-- Issue #12818: format address no longer needlessly \ escapes ()s in names when
-  the name ends up being quoted.
-
-- Issue #14062: BytesGenerator now correctly folds Header objects,
-  including using linesep when folding.
-
-- Issue #13839: When invoked on the command-line, the pstats module now
-  accepts several filenames of profile stat files and merges them all.
-  Patch by Matt Joiner.
-
-- Issue #14291: Email now defaults to utf-8 for non-ASCII unicode headers
-  instead of raising an error.  This fixes a regression relative to 2.7.
-
-- Issue #989712: Support using Tk without a mainloop.
-
-- Issue #3835: Refuse to use unthreaded Tcl in threaded Python.
-
-- Issue #2843: Add new Tk API to Tkinter.
-
-- Issue #14184: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
-  Mac OS X to avoid interpreter crashes when using threads on 10.7.
-
-- Issue #14180: datetime.date.fromtimestamp(),
-  datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp() and datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp()
-  now raise an OSError instead of ValueError if localtime() or gmtime() failed.
-
-- Issue #14180: time.ctime(), gmtime(), time.localtime(),
-  datetime.date.fromtimestamp(), datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp() and
-  datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp() now raises an OverflowError, instead of
-  a ValueError, if the timestamp does not fit in time_t.
-
-- Issue #14180: datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp() and
-  datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp() now round microseconds towards zero
-  instead of rounding to nearest with ties going away from zero.
-
-- Issue #10543: Fix unittest test discovery with Jython bytecode files.
-
-- Issue #1178863: Separate initialisation from setting when initializing
-  Tkinter.Variables; harmonize exceptions to ValueError; only delete variables
-  that have not been deleted; assert that variable names are strings.
-
-- Issue #14104: Implement time.monotonic() on Mac OS X, patch written by
-  Nicholas Riley.
-
-- Issue #13394: the aifc module now uses warnings.warn() to signal warnings.
-
-- Issue #14252: Fix subprocess.Popen.terminate() to not raise an error under
-  Windows when the child process has already exited.
-
-- Issue #14223: curses.addch() is no more limited to the range 0-255 when the
-  Python curses is not linked to libncursesw. It was a regression introduced
-  in Python 3.3a1.
-
-- Issue #14168: Check for presence of Element._attrs in minidom before
-  accessing it.
-
-- Issue #12328: Fix multiprocessing's use of overlapped I/O on Windows.
-  Also, add a multiprocessing.connection.wait(rlist, timeout=None) function
-  for polling multiple objects at once.  Patch by sbt.
-
-- Issue #14007: Accept incomplete TreeBuilder objects (missing start, end,
-  data or close method) for the Python implementation as well.
-  Drop the no-op TreeBuilder().xml() method from the C implementation.
-
-- Issue #14210: pdb now has tab-completion not only for command names, but
-  also for their arguments, wherever possible.
-
-- Issue #14310: Sockets can now be with other processes on Windows using
-  the api socket.socket.share() and socket.fromshare().
-
-- Issue #10576: The gc module now has a 'callbacks' member that will get
-  called when garbage collection takes place.
-
-Build
------
-
-- Issue #14557: Fix extensions build on HP-UX. Patch by Adi Roiban.
-
-- Issue #14387: Do not include accu.h from Python.h.
-
-- Issue #14359: Only use O_CLOEXEC in _posixmodule.c if it is defined.
-  Based on patch from Hervé Coatanhay.
-
-- Issue #14321: Do not run pgen during the build if files are up to date.
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- Issue #14034: added the argparse tutorial.
-
-- Issue #14324: Fix configure tests for cross builds.
-
-- Issue #14327: Call AC_CANONICAL_HOST in configure.ac and check in
-  config.{guess,sub}. Don't use uname calls for cross builds.
-
-Extension Modules
------------------
-
-- Issue #9041: An issue in ctypes.c_longdouble, ctypes.c_double, and
-  ctypes.c_float that caused an incorrect exception to be returned in the
-  case of overflow has been fixed.
-
-- Issue #14212: The re module didn't retain a reference to buffers it was
-  scanning, resulting in segfaults.
-
-- Issue #14259: The finditer() method of re objects did not take any
-  keyword arguments, contrary to the documentation.
-
-- Issue #10142: Support for SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA (for example, under ZFS).
-
-Tests
------
-
-- Issue #14442: Add missing errno import in test_smtplib.
-
-- Issue #8315: (partial fix) python -m unittest test.test_email now works.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.3.0 Alpha 1?
-===================================
-
-*Release date: 05-Mar-2012*
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Issue #14172: Fix reference leak when marshalling a buffer-like object
-  (other than a bytes object).
-
-- Issue #13521: dict.setdefault() now does only one lookup for the given key,
-  making it "atomic" for many purposes.  Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
-
-- PEP 409, Issue #6210: "raise X from None" is now supported as a means of
-  suppressing the display of the chained exception context. The chained
-  context still remains available as the __context__ attribute.
-
-- Issue #10181: New memoryview implementation fixes multiple ownership
-  and lifetime issues of dynamically allocated Py_buffer members (#9990)
-  as well as crashes (#8305, #7433). Many new features have been added
-  (See whatsnew/3.3), and the documentation has been updated extensively.
-  The ndarray test object from _testbuffer.c implements all aspects of
-  PEP-3118, so further development towards the complete implementation
-  of the PEP can proceed in a test-driven manner.
-
-  Thanks to Nick Coghlan, Antoine Pitrou and Pauli Virtanen for review
-  and many ideas.
-
-- Issue #12834: Fix incorrect results of memoryview.tobytes() for
-  non-contiguous arrays.
-
-- Issue #5231: Introduce memoryview.cast() method that allows changing
-  format and shape without making a copy of the underlying memory.
-
-- Issue #14084: Fix a file descriptor leak when importing a module with a
-  bad encoding.
-
-- Upgrade Unicode data to Unicode 6.1.
-
-- Issue #14040: Remove rarely used file name suffixes for C extensions
-  (under POSIX mainly).
-
-- Issue #14051: Allow arbitrary attributes to be set of classmethod and
-  staticmethod.
-
-- Issue #13703: oCERT-2011-003: Randomize hashes of str and bytes to protect
-  against denial of service attacks due to hash collisions within the dict and
-  set types.  Patch by David Malcolm, based on work by Victor Stinner.
-
-- Issue #13020: Fix a reference leak when allocating a structsequence object
-  fails.  Patch by Suman Saha.
-
-- Issue #13908: Ready types returned from PyType_FromSpec.
-
-- Issue #11235: Fix OverflowError when trying to import a source file whose
-  modification time doesn't fit in a 32-bit timestamp.
-
-- Issue #12705: A SyntaxError exception is now raised when attempting to
-  compile multiple statements as a single interactive statement.
-
-- Fix the builtin module initialization code to store the init function for
-  future reinitialization.
-
-- Issue #8052: The posix subprocess module would take a long time closing
-  all possible file descriptors in the child process rather than just open
-  file descriptors.  It now closes only the open fds if possible for the
-  default close_fds=True behavior.
-
-- Issue #13629: Renumber the tokens in token.h so that they match the indexes
-  into _PyParser_TokenNames.
-
-- Issue #13752: Add a casefold() method to str.
-
-- Issue #13761: Add a "flush" keyword argument to the print() function,
-  used to ensure flushing the output stream.
-
-- Issue #13645: pyc files now contain the size of the corresponding source
-  code, to avoid timestamp collisions (especially on filesystems with a low
-  timestamp resolution) when checking for freshness of the bytecode.
-
-- PEP 380, Issue #11682: Add "yield from <x>" to support easy delegation to
-  subgenerators (initial patch by Greg Ewing, integration into 3.3 by
-  Renaud Blanch, Ryan Kelly, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek and Nick Coghlan)
-
-- Issue #13748: Raw bytes literals can now be written with the ``rb`` prefix
-  as well as ``br``.
-
-- Issue #12736: Use full unicode case mappings for upper, lower, and title case.
-
-- Issue #12760: Add a create mode to open(). Patch by David Townshend.
-
-- Issue #13738: Simplify implementation of bytes.lower() and bytes.upper().
-
-- Issue #13577: Built-in methods and functions now have a __qualname__.
-  Patch by sbt.
-
-- Issue #6695: Full garbage collection runs now clear the freelist of set
-  objects.  Initial patch by Matthias Troffaes.
-
-- Fix OSError.__init__ and OSError.__new__ so that each of them can be
-  overriden and take additional arguments (followup to issue #12555).
-
-- Fix the fix for issue #12149: it was incorrect, although it had the side
-  effect of appearing to resolve the issue.  Thanks to Mark Shannon for
-  noticing.
-
-- Issue #13505: Pickle bytes objects in a way that is compatible with
-  Python 2 when using protocols <= 2.
-
-- Issue #11147: Fix an unused argument in _Py_ANNOTATE_MEMORY_ORDER.  (Fix
-  given by Campbell Barton).
-
-- Issue #13503: Use a more efficient reduction format for bytearrays with
-  pickle protocol >= 3.  The old reduction format is kept with older protocols
-  in order to allow unpickling under Python 2.  Patch by Irmen de Jong.
-
-- Issue #7111: Python can now be run without a stdin, stdout or stderr
-  stream.  It was already the case with Python 2.  However, the corresponding
-  sys module entries are now set to None (instead of an unusable file object).
-
-- Issue #11849: Ensure that free()d memory arenas are really released
-  on POSIX systems supporting anonymous memory mappings.  Patch by
-  Charles-François Natali.
-
-- PEP 3155 / issue #13448: Qualified name for classes and functions.
-
-- Issue #13436: Fix a bogus error message when an AST object was passed
-  an invalid integer value.
-
-- Issue #13411: memoryview objects are now hashable when the underlying
-  object is hashable.
-
-- Issue #13338: Handle all enumerations in _Py_ANNOTATE_MEMORY_ORDER
-  to allow compiling extension modules with -Wswitch-enum on gcc.
-  Initial patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
-
-- Issue #10227: Add an allocation cache for a single slice object.  Patch by
-  Stefan Behnel.
-
-- Issue #13393: BufferedReader.read1() now asks the full requested size to
-  the raw stream instead of limiting itself to the buffer size.
-
-- Issue #13392: Writing a pyc file should now be atomic under Windows as well.
-
-- Issue #13333: The UTF-7 decoder now accepts lone surrogates (the encoder
-  already accepts them).
-
-- Issue #13389: Full garbage collection passes now clear the freelists for
-  list and dict objects.  They already cleared other freelists in the
-  interpreter.
-
-- Issue #13327: Remove the need for an explicit None as the second argument
-  to os.utime, os.lutimes, os.futimes, os.futimens, os.futimesat, in
-  order to update to the current time. Also added keyword argument
-  handling to os.utimensat in order to remove the need for explicit None.
-
-- Issue #13350: Simplify some C code by replacing most usages of
-  PyUnicode_Format by PyUnicode_FromFormat.
-
-- Issue #13342: input() used to ignore sys.stdin's and sys.stdout's unicode
-  error handler in interactive mode (when calling into PyOS_Readline()).
-
-- Issue #9896: Add start, stop, and step attributes to range objects.
-
-- Issue #13343: Fix a SystemError when a lambda expression uses a global
-  variable in the default value of a keyword-only argument: ``lambda *,
-  arg=GLOBAL_NAME: None``
-
-- Issue #12797: Added custom opener parameter to builtin open() and
-  FileIO.open().
-
-- Issue #10519: Avoid unnecessary recursive function calls in
-  setobject.c.
-
-- Issue #10363: Deallocate global locks in Py_Finalize().
-
-- Issue #13018: Fix reference leaks in error paths in dictobject.c.
-  Patch by Suman Saha.
-
-- Issue #13201: Define '==' and '!=' to compare range objects based on
-  the sequence of values they define (instead of comparing based on
-  object identity).
-
-- Issue #1294232: In a few cases involving metaclass inheritance, the
-  interpreter would sometimes invoke the wrong metaclass when building a new
-  class object. These cases now behave correctly. Patch by Daniel Urban.
-
-- Issue #12753: Add support for Unicode name aliases and named sequences.
-  Both ``unicodedata.lookup()`` and '\N{...}' now resolve aliases,
-  and ``unicodedata.lookup()`` resolves named sequences too.
-
-- Issue #12170: The count(), find(), rfind(), index() and rindex() methods
-  of bytes and bytearray objects now accept an integer between 0 and 255
-  as their first argument.  Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
-
-- Issue #12604: VTRACE macro expanded to no-op in _sre.c to avoid compiler
-  warnings. Patch by Josh Triplett and Petri Lehtinen.
-
-- Issue #12281: Rewrite the MBCS codec to handle correctly replace and ignore
-  error handlers on all Windows versions. The MBCS codec is now supporting all
-  error handlers, instead of only replace to encode and ignore to decode.
-
-- Issue #13188: When called without an explicit traceback argument,
-  generator.throw() now gets the traceback from the passed exception's
-  ``__traceback__`` attribute.  Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
-
-- Issue #13146: Writing a pyc file is now atomic under POSIX.
-
-- Issue #7833: Extension modules built using distutils on Windows will no
-  longer include a "manifest" to prevent them failing at import time in some
-  embedded situations.
-
-- PEP 3151 / issue #12555: reworking the OS and IO exception hierarchy.
-
-- Add internal API for static strings (_Py_identifier et al.).
-
-- Issue #13063: the Windows error ERROR_NO_DATA (numbered 232 and described
-  as "The pipe is being closed") is now mapped to POSIX errno EPIPE
-  (previously EINVAL).
-
-- Issue #12911: Fix memory consumption when calculating the repr() of huge
-  tuples or lists.
-
-- PEP 393: flexible string representation. Thanks to Torsten Becker for the
-  initial implementation, and Victor Stinner for various bug fixes.
-
-- Issue #14081: The 'sep' and 'maxsplit' parameter to str.split, bytes.split,
-  and bytearray.split may now be passed as keyword arguments.
-
-- Issue #13012: The 'keepends' parameter to str.splitlines may now be passed
-  as a keyword argument:  "my_string.splitlines(keepends=True)".  The same
-  change also applies to bytes.splitlines and bytearray.splitlines.
-
-- Issue #7732: Don't open a directory as a file anymore while importing a
-  module. Ignore the direcotry if its name matchs the module name (e.g.
-  "__init__.py") and raise a ImportError instead.
-
-- Issue #13021: Missing decref on an error path.  Thanks to Suman Saha for
-  finding the bug and providing a patch.
-
-- Issue #12973: Fix overflow checks that relied on undefined behaviour in
-  list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c).  These bugs
-  caused test failures with recent versions of Clang.
-
-- Issue #12904: os.utime, os.futimes, os.lutimes, and os.futimesat now write
-  atime and mtime with nanosecond precision on modern POSIX platforms.
-
-- Issue #12802: the Windows error ERROR_DIRECTORY (numbered 267) is now
-  mapped to POSIX errno ENOTDIR (previously EINVAL).
-
-- Issue #9200: The str.is* methods now work with strings that contain non-BMP
-  characters even in narrow Unicode builds.
-
-- Issue #12791: Break reference cycles early when a generator exits with
-  an exception.
-
-- Issue #12773: Make __doc__ mutable on user-defined classes.
-
-- Issue #12766: Raise a ValueError when creating a class with a class variable
-  that conflicts with a name in __slots__.
-
-- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
-  titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
-
-- Issue #12732: In narrow unicode builds, allow Unicode identifiers which fall
-  outside the BMP.
-
-- Issue #12575: Validate user-generated AST before it is compiled.
-
-- Make type(None), type(Ellipsis), and type(NotImplemented) callable. They
-  return the respective singleton instances.
-
-- Forbid summing bytes with sum().
-
-- Verify the types of AST strings and identifiers provided by the user before
-  compiling them.
-
-- Issue #12647: The None object now has a __bool__() method that returns False.
-  Formerly, bool(None) returned False only because of special case logic
-  in PyObject_IsTrue().
-
-- Issue #12579: str.format_map() now raises a ValueError if used on a
-  format string that contains positional fields. Initial patch by
-  Julian Berman.
-
-- Issue #10271: Allow warnings.showwarning() be any callable.
-
-- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
-  non-exception class.
-
-- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionary gets
-  cleared by the garbage collector.  This fixes a segfault when an instance
-  and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
-  deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
-  IOBase).  Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.
-
-- Issue #9611, Issue #9015: FileIO.read() clamps the length to INT_MAX on Windows.
-
-- Issue #9642: Uniformize the tests on the availability of the mbcs codec, add
-  a new HAVE_MBCS define.
-
-- Issue #9642: Fix filesystem encoding initialization: use the ANSI code page
-  on Windows if the mbcs codec is not available, and fail with a fatal error if
-  we cannot get the locale encoding (if nl_langinfo(CODESET) is not available)
-  instead of using UTF-8.
-
-- When a generator yields, do not retain the caller's exception state on the
-  generator.
-
-- Issue #12475: Prevent generators from leaking their exception state into the
-  caller's frame as they return for the last time.
-
-- Issue #12291: You can now load multiple marshalled objects from a stream,
-  with other data interleaved between marshalled objects.
-
-- Issue #12356: When required positional or keyword-only arguments are not
-  given, produce a informative error message which includes the name(s) of the
-  missing arguments.
-
-- Issue #12370: Fix super with no arguments when __class__ is overriden in the
-  class body.
-
-- Issue #12084: os.stat on Windows now works properly with relative symbolic
-  links when called from any directory.
-
-- Loosen type restrictions on the __dir__ method. __dir__ can now return any
-  sequence, which will be converted to a list and sorted by dir().
-
-- Issue #12265: Make error messages produced by passing an invalid set of
-  arguments to a function more informative.
-
-- Issue #12225: Still allow Python to build if Python is not in its hg repo or
-  mercurial is not installed.
-
-- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
-  the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
-  raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.
-
-- Issue #12216: Allow unexpected EOF errors to happen on any line of the file.
-
-- Issue #12199: The TryExcept and TryFinally and AST nodes have been unified
-  into a Try node.
-
-- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
-  Mac OS X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a
-  "maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception.
-  (patch by Ronald Oussoren)
-
-- Issue #12106: The use of the multiple-with shorthand syntax is now reflected
-  in the AST.
-
-- Issue #12190: Try to use the same filename object when compiling unmarshalling
-  a code objects in the same file.
-
-- Issue #12166: Move implementations of dir() specialized for various types into
-  the __dir__() methods of those types.
-
-- Issue #5715: In socketserver, close the server socket in the child process.
-
-- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. Among other things, this causes errors
-  besides AttributeError found on lookup to be propagated.
-
-- Issue #12060: Use sig_atomic_t type and volatile keyword in the signal
-  module. Patch written by Charles-François Natali.
-
-- Issue #1746656: Added the if_nameindex, if_indextoname, if_nametoindex
-  methods to the socket module.
-
-- Issue #12044: Fixed subprocess.Popen when used as a context manager to
-  wait for the process to end when exiting the context to avoid unintentionally
-  leaving zombie processes around.
-
-- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
-  clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.
-
-- Issue #1856: Avoid crashes and lockups when daemon threads run while the
-  interpreter is shutting down; instead, these threads are now killed when
-  they try to take the GIL.
-
-- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
-  the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
-  Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
-  str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
-
-- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
-  APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5.  Patch
-  by Charles-François Natali.
-
-- Issue #10914: Initialize correctly the filesystem codec when creating a new
-  subinterpreter to fix a bootstrap issue with codecs implemented in Python, as
-  the ISO-8859-15 codec.
-
-- Issue #11918: OS/2 and VMS are no more supported because of the lack of
-  maintainer.
-
-- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
-  accepted too.
-
-- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
-  between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
-  chars (e.g. "\U00012345"[0]).
-
-- Issue #11845: Fix typo in rangeobject.c that caused a crash in
-  compute_slice_indices.  Patch by Daniel Urban.
-
-- Issue #5673: Added a `timeout` keyword argument to subprocess.Popen.wait,
-  subprocess.Popen.communicated, subprocess.call, subprocess.check_call, and
-  subprocess.check_output.  If the blocking operation takes more than `timeout`
-  seconds, the `subprocess.TimeoutExpired` exception is raised.
-
-- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
-  (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
-  written by Charles-Francois Natali.
-
-- Issue #9319: Include the filename in "Non-UTF8 code ..." syntax error.
-
-- Issue #10785: Store the filename as Unicode in the Python parser.
-
-- Issue #11619: _PyImport_LoadDynamicModule() doesn't encode the path to bytes
-  on Windows.
-
-- Issue #10998: Remove mentions of -Q, sys.flags.division_warning and
-  Py_DivisionWarningFlag left over from Python 2.
-
-- Issue #11244: Remove an unnecessary peepholer check that was preventing
-  negative zeros from being constant-folded properly.
-
-- Issue #11395: io.FileIO().write() clamps the data length to 32,767 bytes on
-  Windows if the file is a TTY to workaround a Windows bug. The Windows console
-  returns an error (12: not enough space error) on writing into stdout if
-  stdout mode is binary and the length is greater than 66,000 bytes (or less,
-  depending on heap usage).
-
-- Issue #11320: fix bogus memory management in Modules/getpath.c, leading to
-  a possible crash when calling Py_SetPath().
-
-- Issue #11432: A bug was introduced in subprocess.Popen on posix systems with
-  3.2.0 where the stdout or stderr file descriptor being the same as the stdin
-  file descriptor would raise an exception. webbrowser.open would fail. fixed.
-
-- Issue #9856: Change object.__format__ with a non-empty format string
-  to be a DeprecationWarning. In 3.2 it was a PendingDeprecationWarning.
-  In 3.4 it will be a TypeError.
-
-- Issue #11244: The peephole optimizer is now able to constant-fold
-  arbitrarily complex expressions.  This also fixes a 3.2 regression where
-  operations involving negative numbers were not constant-folded.
-
-- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
-  there are many tags (e.g. when using mq).  Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
-
-- Issue #11335: Fixed a memory leak in list.sort when the key function
-  throws an exception.
-
-- Issue #8923: When a string is encoded to UTF-8 in strict mode, the result is
-  cached into the object. Examples: str.encode(), str.encode('utf-8'),
-  PyUnicode_AsUTF8String() and PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(unicode, "utf-8",
-  NULL).
-
-- Issue #10829: Refactor PyUnicode_FromFormat(), use the same function to parse
-  the format string in the 3 steps, fix crashs on invalid format strings.
-
-- Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
-
-- Issue #11286: Raise a ValueError from calling PyMemoryView_FromBuffer with
-  a buffer struct having a NULL data pointer.
-
-- Issue #11272: On Windows, input() strips '\r' (and not only '\n'), and
-  sys.stdin uses universal newline (replace '\r\n' by '\n').
-
-- Issue #11828: startswith and endswith now accept None as slice index.
-  Patch by Torsten Becker.
-
-- Issue #11168: Remove filename debug variable from PyEval_EvalFrameEx().
-  It encoded the Unicode filename to UTF-8, but the encoding fails on
-  undecodable filename (on surrogate characters) which raises an unexpected
-  UnicodeEncodeError on recursion limit.
-
-- Issue #11187: Remove bootstrap code (use ASCII) of
-  PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(), it was replaced by a better fallback (use the
-  locale encoding) in PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault().
-
-- Check for NULL result in PyType_FromSpec.
-
-- Issue #10516: New copy() and clear() methods for lists and bytearrays.
-
-- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
-  empty, instead of OverflowError.
-
-- Issue #12380: The rjust, ljust and center methods of bytes and bytearray
-  now accept a bytearray argument.
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #14195: An issue that caused weakref.WeakSet instances to incorrectly
-  return True for a WeakSet instance 'a' in both 'a < a' and 'a > a' has been
-  fixed.
-
-- Issue #14166: Pickler objects now have an optional ``dispatch_table``
-  attribute which allows to set custom per-pickler reduction functions.
-  Patch by sbt.
-
-- Issue #14177: marshal.loads() now raises TypeError when given an unicode
-  string.  Patch by Guilherme Gonçalves.
-
-- Issue #13550: Remove the debug machinery from the threading module: remove
-  verbose arguments from all threading classes and functions.
-
-- Issue #14159: Fix the len() of weak containers (WeakSet, WeakKeyDictionary,
-  WeakValueDictionary) to return a better approximation when some objects
-  are dead or dying.  Moreover, the implementation is now O(1) rather than
-  O(n).
-
-- Issue #11841: Fix comparison bug with 'rc' versions in packaging.version.
-  Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
-
-- Issue #6884: Fix long-standing bugs with MANIFEST.in parsing in distutils
-  on Windows.  Also fixed in packaging.
-
-- Issue #8033: sqlite3: Fix 64-bit integer handling in user functions
-  on 32-bit architectures. Initial patch by Philippe Devalkeneer.
-
-- HTMLParser is now able to handle slashes in the start tag.
-
-- Issue #13641: Decoding functions in the base64 module now accept ASCII-only
-  unicode strings.  Patch by Catalin Iacob.
-
-- Issue #14043: Speed up importlib's _FileFinder by at least 8x, and add a
-  new importlib.invalidate_caches() function.
-
-- Issue #14001: CVE-2012-0845: xmlrpc: Fix an endless loop in
-  SimpleXMLRPCServer upon malformed POST request.
-
-- Issue #13961: Move importlib over to using os.replace() for atomic renaming.
-
-- Do away with ambiguous level values (as suggested by PEP 328) in
-  importlib.__import__() by raising ValueError when level < 0.
-
-- Issue #2489: pty.spawn could consume 100% cpu when it encountered an EOF.
-
-- Issue #13014: Fix a possible reference leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert().
-
-- Issue #13777: Add PF_SYSTEM sockets on OS X.
-  Patch by Michael Goderbauer.
-
-- Issue #13015: Fix a possible reference leak in defaultdict.__repr__.
-  Patch by Suman Saha.
-
-- Issue #1326113: distutils' and packaging's build_ext commands option now
-  correctly parses multiple values (separated by whitespace or commas) given
-  to their --libraries option.
-
-- Issue #10287: nntplib now queries the server's CAPABILITIES first before
-  sending MODE READER, and only sends it if not already in READER mode.
-  Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
-
-- Issue #13993: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken end tags when
-  strict=False.
-
-- Issue #13930: lib2to3 now supports writing converted output files to another
-  directory tree as well as copying unchanged files and altering the file
-  suffix.
-
-- Issue #9750: Fix sqlite3.Connection.iterdump on tables and fields
-  with a name that is a keyword or contains quotes. Patch by Marko
-  Kohtala.
-
-- Issue #10287: nntplib now queries the server's CAPABILITIES again after
-  authenticating (since the result may change, according to RFC 4643).
-  Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
-
-- Issue #13590: On OS X 10.7 and 10.6 with Xcode 4.2, building
-  Distutils-based packages with C extension modules may fail because
-  Apple has removed gcc-4.2, the version used to build python.org
-  64-bit/32-bit Pythons.  If the user does not explicitly override
-  the default C compiler by setting the CC environment variable,
-  Distutils will now attempt to compile extension modules with clang
-  if gcc-4.2 is required but not found. Also as a convenience, if
-  the user does explicitly set CC, substitute its value as the default
-  compiler in the Distutils LDSHARED configuration variable for OS X.
-  (Note, the python.org 32-bit-only Pythons use gcc-4.0 and the 10.4u
-  SDK, neither of which are available in Xcode 4.  This change does not
-  attempt to override settings to support their use with Xcode 4.)
-
-- Issue #13960: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken comments when
-  strict=False.
-
-- When '' is a path (e.g. in sys.path), make sure __file__ uses the current
-  working directory instead of '' in importlib.
-
-- Issue #13609: Add two functions to query the terminal size:
-  os.get_terminal_size (low level) and shutil.get_terminal_size (high level).
-  Patch by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek.
-
-- Issue #13845: On Windows, time.time() now uses GetSystemTimeAsFileTime()
-  instead of ftime() to have a resolution of 100 ns instead of 1 ms (the clock
-  accuracy is between 0.5 ms and 15 ms).
-
-- Issue #13846: Add time.monotonic(), monotonic clock.
-
-- Issue #8184: multiprocessing: On Windows, don't set SO_REUSEADDR on
-  Connection sockets, and set FILE_FLAG_FIRST_PIPE_INSTANCE on named pipes, to
-  make sure two listeners can't bind to the same socket/pipe (or any existing
-  socket/pipe).
-
-- Issue #10811: Fix recursive usage of cursors. Instead of crashing,
-  raise a ProgrammingError now.
-
-- Issue #13734: Add os.fwalk(), a directory walking function yielding file
-  descriptors.
-
-- Issue #2945: Make the distutils upload command aware of bdist_rpm products.
-
-- Issue #13712: pysetup create should not convert package_data to extra_files.
-
-- Issue #11805: package_data in setup.cfg should allow more than one value.
-
-- Issue #13676: Handle strings with embedded zeros correctly in sqlite3.
-
-- Issue #8828: Add new function os.replace(), for cross-platform renaming
-  with overwriting.
-
-- Issue #13848: open() and the FileIO constructor now check for NUL
-  characters in the file name.  Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
-
-- Issue #13806: The size check in audioop decompression functions was too
-  strict and could reject valid compressed data.  Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
-
-- Issue #13812: When a multiprocessing Process child raises an exception,
-  flush stderr after printing the exception traceback.
-
-- Issue #13885: CVE-2011-3389: the _ssl module would always disable the CBC
-  IV attack countermeasure.
-
-- Issue #13847: time.localtime() and time.gmtime() now raise an OSError instead
-  of ValueError on failure. time.ctime() and time.asctime() now raises an
-  OSError if localtime() failed. time.clock() now raises a RuntimeError if the
-  processor time used is not available or its value cannot be represented
-
-- Issue #13772: In os.symlink() under Windows, do not try to guess the link
-  target's type (file or directory).  The detection was buggy and made the
-  call non-atomic (therefore prone to race conditions).
-
-- Issue #6631: Disallow relative file paths in urllib urlopen methods.
-
-- Issue #13722: Avoid silencing ImportErrors when initializing the codecs
-  registry.
-
-- Issue #13781: Fix GzipFile bug that caused an exception to be raised when
-  opening for writing using a fileobj returned by os.fdopen().
-
-- Issue #13803: Under Solaris, distutils doesn't include bitness
-  in the directory name.
-
-- Issue #10278: Add time.wallclock() function, monotonic clock.
-
-- Issue #13809: Fix regression where bz2 module wouldn't work when threads are
-  disabled. Original patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
-
-- Issue #13589: Fix some serialization primitives in the aifc module.
-  Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.
-
-- Issue #13642: Unquote before b64encoding user:password during Basic
-  Authentication. Patch contributed by Joonas Kuorilehto.
-
-- Issue #12364: Fix a hang in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor.
-  The hang would occur when retrieving the result of a scheduled future after
-  the executor had been shut down.
-
-- Issue #13502: threading: Fix a race condition in Event.wait() that made it
-  return False when the event was set and cleared right after.
-
-- Issue #9993: When the source and destination are on different filesystems,
-  and the source is a symlink, shutil.move() now recreates a symlink on the
-  destination instead of copying the file contents.  Patch by Jonathan Niehof
-  and Hynek Schlawack.
-
-- Issue #12926: Fix a bug in tarfile's link extraction.
-
-- Issue #13696: Fix the 302 Relative URL Redirection problem.
-
-- Issue #13636: Weak ciphers are now disabled by default in the ssl module
-  (except when SSLv2 is explicitly asked for).
-
-- Issue #12715: Add an optional symlinks argument to shutil functions
-  (copyfile, copymode, copystat, copy, copy2).  When that parameter is
-  true, symlinks aren't dereferenced and the operation instead acts on the
-  symlink itself (or creates one, if relevant).  Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
-
-- Add a flags parameter to select.epoll.
-
-- Issue #13626: Add support for SSL Diffie-Hellman key exchange, through the
-  SSLContext.load_dh_params() method and the ssl.OP_SINGLE_DH_USE option.
-
-- Issue #11006: Don't issue low level warning in subprocess when pipe2() fails.
-
-- Issue #13620: Support for Chrome browser in webbrowser.  Patch contributed
-  by Arnaud Calmettes.
-
-- Issue #11829: Fix code execution holes in inspect.getattr_static for
-  metaclasses with metaclasses. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
-
-- Issue #12708: Add starmap() and starmap_async() methods (similar to
-  itertools.starmap()) to multiprocessing.Pool.  Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
-
-- Issue #1785: Fix inspect and pydoc with misbehaving descriptors.
-
-- Issue #13637: "a2b" functions in the binascii module now accept ASCII-only
-  unicode strings.
-
-- Issue #13634: Add support for querying and disabling SSL compression.
-
-- Issue #13627: Add support for SSL Elliptic Curve-based Diffie-Hellman
-  key exchange, through the SSLContext.set_ecdh_curve() method and the
-  ssl.OP_SINGLE_ECDH_USE option.
-
-- Issue #13635: Add ssl.OP_CIPHER_SERVER_PREFERENCE, so that SSL servers
-  choose the cipher based on their own preferences, rather than on the
-  client's.
-
-- Issue #11813: Fix inspect.getattr_static for modules. Patch by Andreas
-  Stührk.
-
-- Issue #7502: Fix equality comparison for DocTestCase instances.  Patch by
-  Cédric Krier.
-
-- Issue #11870: threading: Properly reinitialize threads internal locks and
-  condition variables to avoid deadlocks in child processes.
-
-- Issue #8035: urllib: Fix a bug where the client could remain stuck after a
-  redirection or an error.
-
-- Issue #13560: os.strerror() now uses the current locale encoding instead of
-  UTF-8.
-
-- Issue #8373: The filesystem path of AF_UNIX sockets now uses the filesystem
-  encoding and the surrogateescape error handler, rather than UTF-8.  Patch
-  by David Watson.
-
-- Issue #10350: Read and save errno before calling a function which might
-  overwrite it.  Original patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
-
-- Issue #11610: Introduce a more general way to declare abstract properties.
-
-- Issue #13591: A bug in importlib has been fixed that caused import_module
-  to load a module twice.
-
-- Issue #13449 sched.scheduler.run() method has a new "blocking" parameter which
-  when set to False makes run() execute the scheduled events due to expire
-  soonest (if any) and then return.  Patch by Giampaolo Rodolà.
-
-- Issue #8684 sched.scheduler class can be safely used in multi-threaded
-  environments.  Patch by Josiah Carlson and Giampaolo Rodolà.
-
-- Alias resource.error to OSError ala PEP 3151.
-
-- Issue #5689: Add support for lzma compression to the tarfile module.
-
-- Issue #13248: Turn 3.2's PendingDeprecationWarning into 3.3's
-  DeprecationWarning.  It covers 'cgi.escape', 'importlib.abc.PyLoader',
-  'importlib.abc.PyPycLoader', 'nntplib.NNTP.xgtitle', 'nntplib.NNTP.xpath',
-  and private attributes of 'smtpd.SMTPChannel'.
-
-- Issue #5905, Issue #13560: time.strftime() is now using the current locale
-  encoding, instead of UTF-8, if the wcsftime() function is not available.
-
-- Issue #13464: Add a readinto() method to http.client.HTTPResponse.  Patch
-  by Jon Kuhn.
-
-- tarfile.py: Correctly detect bzip2 compressed streams with blocksizes
-  other than 900k.
-
-- Issue #13439: Fix many errors in turtle docstrings.
-
-- Issue #6715: Add a module 'lzma' for compression using the LZMA algorithm.
-  Thanks to Per Øyvind Karlsen for the initial implementation.
-
-- Issue #13487: Make inspect.getmodule robust against changes done to
-  sys.modules while it is iterating over it.
-
-- Issue #12618: Fix a bug that prevented py_compile from creating byte
-  compiled files in the current directory.  Initial patch by Sjoerd de Vries.
-
-- Issue #13444: When stdout has been closed explicitly, we should not attempt
-  to flush it at shutdown and print an error.
-
-- Issue #12567: The curses module uses Unicode functions for Unicode arguments
-  when it is linked to the ncurses library. It encodes also Unicode strings to
-  the locale encoding instead of UTF-8.
-
-- Issue #12856: Ensure child processes do not inherit the parent's random
-  seed for filename generation in the tempfile module.  Patch by Brian
-  Harring.
-
-- Issue #9957: SpooledTemporaryFile.truncate() now accepts an optional size
-  parameter, as other file-like objects.  Patch by Ryan Kelly.
-
-- Issue #13458: Fix a memory leak in the ssl module when decoding a
-  certificate with a subjectAltName.  Patch by Robert Xiao.
-
-- Issue #13415: os.unsetenv() doesn't ignore errors anymore.
-
-- Issue #13245: sched.scheduler class constructor's timefunc and
-  delayfunct parameters are now optional.
-  scheduler.enter and scheduler.enterabs methods gained a new kwargs parameter.
-  Patch contributed by Chris Clark.
-
-- Issue #12328: Under Windows, refactor handling of Ctrl-C events and
-  make _multiprocessing.win32.WaitForMultipleObjects interruptible when
-  the wait_flag parameter is false.  Patch by sbt.
-
-- Issue #13322: Fix BufferedWriter.write() to ensure that BlockingIOError is
-  raised when the wrapped raw file is non-blocking and the write would block.
-  Previous code assumed that the raw write() would raise BlockingIOError, but
-  RawIOBase.write() is defined to returned None when the call would block.
-  Patch by sbt.
-
-- Issue #13358: HTMLParser now calls handle_data only once for each CDATA.
-
-- Issue #4147: minidom's toprettyxml no longer adds whitespace around a text
-  node when it is the only child of an element.  Initial patch by Dan
-  Kenigsberg.
-
-- Issue #13374: The Windows bytes API has been deprecated in the os module. Use
-  Unicode filenames instead of bytes filenames to not depend on the ANSI code
-  page anymore and to support any filename.
-
-- Issue #13297: Use bytes type to send and receive binary data through XMLRPC.
-
-- Issue #6397: Support "/dev/poll" polling objects in select module,
-  under Solaris & derivatives.
-
-- Issues #1745761, #755670, #13357, #12629, #1200313: HTMLParser now correctly
-  handles non-valid attributes, including adjacent and unquoted attributes.
-
-- Issue #13193: Fix distutils.filelist.FileList and packaging.manifest.Manifest
-  under Windows.
-
-- Issue #13384: Remove unnecessary __future__ import in Lib/random.py
-
-- Issue #13149: Speed up append-only StringIO objects.
-
-- Issue #13373: multiprocessing.Queue.get() could sometimes block indefinitely
-  when called with a timeout.  Patch by Arnaud Ysmal.
-
-- Issue #13254: Fix Maildir initialization so that maildir contents
-  are read correctly.
-
-- Issue #3067: locale.setlocale() now raises TypeError if the second
-  argument is an invalid iterable. Its documentation and docstring
-  were also updated. Initial patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
-
-- Issue #13140: Fix the daemon_threads attribute of ThreadingMixIn.
-
-- Issue #13339: Fix compile error in posixmodule.c due to missing semicolon.
-  Thanks to Robert Xiao.
-
-- Byte compilation in packaging is now isolated from the calling Python -B or
-  -O options, instead of being disallowed under -B or buggy under -O.
-
-- Issue #10570: curses.putp() and curses.tparm() are now expecting a byte
-  string, instead of a Unicode string.
-
-- Issue #13295: http.server now produces valid HTML 4.01 strict.
-
-- Issue #2892: preserve iterparse events in case of SyntaxError.
-
-- Issue #13287: urllib.request and urllib.error now contains an __all__
-  attribute to expose only relevant classes and functions.  Patch by Florent
-  Xicluna.
-
-- Issue #670664: Fix HTMLParser to correctly handle the content of
-  ``<script>...</script>`` and ``<style>...</style>``.
-
-- Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
-  when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
-
-- Fix the xmlrpc.client user agent to return something similar to
-  urllib.request user agent: "Python-xmlrpc/3.3".
-
-- Issue #13293: Better error message when trying to marshal bytes using
-  xmlrpc.client.
-
-- Issue #13291: NameError in xmlrpc package.
-
-- Issue #13258: Use callable() built-in in the standard library.
-
-- Issue #13273: fix a bug that prevented HTMLParser to properly detect some
-  tags when strict=False.
-
-- Issue #11183: Add finer-grained exceptions to the ssl module, so that
-  you don't have to inspect the exception's attributes in the common case.
-
-- Issue #13216: Add cp65001 codec, the Windows UTF-8 (CP_UTF8).
-
-- Issue #13226: Add RTLD_xxx constants to the os module. These constants can be
-  used with sys.setdlopenflags().
-
-- Issue #10278: Add clock_getres(), clock_gettime() and CLOCK_xxx constants to
-  the time module. time.clock_gettime(time.CLOCK_MONOTONIC) provides a
-  monotonic clock
-
-- Issue #10332: multiprocessing: fix a race condition when a Pool is closed
-  before all tasks have completed.
-
-- Issue #13255: wrong docstrings in array module.
-
-- Issue #8540: Remove deprecated Context._clamp attribute in Decimal module.
-
-- Issue #13235: Added DeprecationWarning to logging.warn() method and function.
-
-- Issue #9168: now smtpd is able to bind privileged port.
-
-- Issue #12529: fix cgi.parse_header issue on strings with double-quotes and
-  semicolons together. Patch by Ben Darnell and Petri Lehtinen.
-
-- Issue #13227: functools.lru_cache() now has a option to distinguish
-  calls with different argument types.
-
-- Issue #6090: zipfile raises a ValueError when a document with a timestamp
-  earlier than 1980 is provided. Patch contributed by Petri Lehtinen.
-
-- Issue #13150: sysconfig no longer parses the Makefile and config.h files
-  when imported, instead doing it at build time.  This makes importing
-  sysconfig faster and reduces Python startup time by 20%.
-
-- Issue #12448: smtplib now flushes stdout while running ``python -m smtplib``
-  in order to display the prompt correctly.
-
-- Issue #12454: The mailbox module is now using ASCII, instead of the locale
-  encoding, to read and write .mh_sequences files.
-
-- Issue #13194: zlib.compressobj().copy() and zlib.decompressobj().copy() are
-  now available on Windows.
-
-- Issue #1673007: urllib.request now supports HEAD request via new method argument.
-  Patch contributions by David Stanek, Patrick Westerhoff and Ezio Melotti.
-
-- Issue #12386: packaging does not fail anymore when writing the RESOURCES
-  file.
-
-- Issue #13158: Fix decoding and encoding of GNU tar specific base-256 number
-  fields in tarfile.
-
-- Issue #13025: mimetypes is now reading MIME types using the UTF-8 encoding,
-  instead of the locale encoding.
-
-- Issue #10653: On Windows, use strftime() instead of wcsftime() because
-  wcsftime() doesn't format time zone correctly.
-
-- Issue #13150: The tokenize module doesn't compile large regular expressions
-  at startup anymore.
-
-- Issue #11171: Fix distutils.sysconfig.get_makefile_filename when Python was
-  configured with different prefix and exec-prefix.
-
-- Issue #11254: Teach distutils and packaging to compile .pyc and .pyo files in
-  PEP 3147-compliant __pycache__ directories.
-
-- Issue #7367: Fix pkgutil.walk_paths to skip directories whose
-  contents cannot be read.
-
-- Issue #3163: The struct module gets new format characters 'n' and 'N'
-  supporting C integer types ``ssize_t`` and ``size_t``, respectively.
-
-- Issue #13099: Fix sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid under a Turkish locale.
-  Reported and diagnosed by Thomas Kluyver.
-
-- Issue #13087: BufferedReader.seek() now always raises UnsupportedOperation
-  if the underlying raw stream is unseekable, even if the seek could be
-  satisfied using the internal buffer.  Patch by John O'Connor.
-
-- Issue #7689: Allow pickling of dynamically created classes when their
-  metaclass is registered with copyreg.  Patch by Nicolas M. Thiéry and Craig
-  Citro.
-
-- Issue #13034: When decoding some SSL certificates, the subjectAltName
-  extension could be unreported.
-
-- Issue #12306: Expose the runtime version of the zlib C library as a constant,
-  ZLIB_RUNTIME_VERSION, in the zlib module. Patch by Torsten Landschoff.
-
-- Issue #12959: Add collections.ChainMap to collections.__all__.
-
-- Issue #8933: distutils' PKG-INFO files and packaging's METADATA files will
-  now correctly report Metadata-Version: 1.1 instead of 1.0 if a Classifier or
-  Download-URL field is present.
-
-- Issue #12567: Add curses.unget_wch() function. Push a character so the next
-  get_wch() will return it.
-
-- Issue #9561: distutils and packaging now writes egg-info files using UTF-8,
-  instead of the locale encoding.
-
-- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
-  of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
-
-- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
-  and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
-  of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
-  information was lost.
-
-- Issue #12888: Fix a bug in HTMLParser.unescape that prevented it to escape
-  more than 128 entities.  Patch by Peter Otten.
-
-- Issue #12878: Expose a __dict__ attribute on io.IOBase and its subclasses.
-
-- Issue #12494: On error, call(), check_call(), check_output() and
-  getstatusoutput() functions of the subprocess module now kill the process,
-  read its status (to avoid zombis) and close pipes.
-
-- Issue #12720: Expose low-level Linux extended file attribute functions in os.
-
-- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
-  now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist.  The packaging commands
-  were fixed too.
-
-- Issue #12847: Fix a crash with negative PUT and LONG_BINPUT arguments in
-  the C pickle implementation.
-
-- Issue #11564: Avoid crashes when trying to pickle huge objects or containers
-  (more than 2**31 items).  Instead, in most cases, an OverflowError is raised.
-
-- Issue #12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
-  greater than FD_SETSIZE.
-
-- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch.
-  Fix by Richard M. Tew.
-
-- Issue #9923: The mailcap module now correctly uses the platform path
-  separator for the MAILCAP environment variable on non-POSIX platforms.
-
-- Issue #12835: Follow up to #6560 that unconditionally prevents use of the
-  unencrypted sendmsg/recvmsg APIs on SSL wrapped sockets. Patch by David
-  Watson.
-
-- Issue #12803: SSLContext.load_cert_chain() now accepts a password argument
-  to be used if the private key is encrypted.  Patch by Adam Simpkins.
-
-- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
-  Pipe.
-
-- Issue #12811: tabnanny.check() now promptly closes checked files. Patch by
-  Anthony Briggs.
-
-- Issue #6560: The sendmsg/recvmsg API is now exposed by the socket module
-  when provided by the underlying platform, supporting processing of
-  ancillary data in pure Python code. Patch by David Watson and Heiko Wundram.
-
-- Issue #12326: On Linux, sys.platform doesn't contain the major version
-  anymore. It is now always 'linux', instead of 'linux2' or 'linux3' depending
-  on the Linux version used to build Python.
-
-- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
-  could appear on BufferedRandom streams.
-
-- Issue #12778: Reduce memory consumption when JSON-encoding a large
-  container of many small objects.
-
-- Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
-  resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
-
-- Issue #12744: Fix inefficient representation of integers between 2**31 and
-  2**63 on systems with a 64-bit C "long".
-
-- Issue #12646: Add an 'eof' attribute to zlib.Decompress, to make it easier to
-  detect truncated input streams.
-
-- Issue #11513: Fix exception handling ``tarfile.TarFile.gzopen()`` when
-  the file cannot be opened.
-
-- Issue #12687: Fix a possible buffering bug when unpickling text mode
-  (protocol 0, mostly) pickles.
-
-- Issue #10087: Fix the html output format of the calendar module.
-
-- Issue #13121: add support for inplace math operators to collections.Counter.
-
-- Add support for unary plus and unary minus to collections.Counter.
-
-- Issue #12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
-  paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).
-
-- Issue #12655: Expose functions from sched.h in the os module: sched_yield(),
-  sched_setscheduler(), sched_getscheduler(), sched_setparam(),
-  sched_get_min_priority(), sched_get_max_priority(), sched_rr_get_interval(),
-  sched_getaffinity(), sched_setaffinity().
-
-- Add ThreadError to threading.__all__.
-
-- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
-  manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
-
-- Issue #11281: smtplib.STMP gets source_address parameter, which adds the
-  ability to bind to specific source address on a machine with multiple
-  interfaces. Patch by Paulo Scardine.
-
-- Issue #12464: tempfile.TemporaryDirectory.cleanup() should not follow
-  symlinks: fix it. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
-
-- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
-  in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.
-
-- Issue #10968: Remove indirection in threading.  The public names (Event,
-  Condition, etc.) used to be factory functions returning instances of hidden
-  classes (_Event, _Condition, etc.), because (if Guido recalls correctly) this
-  code pre-dates the ability to subclass extension types.  It is now possible
-  to inherit from these classes, without having to import the private
-  underscored names like multiprocessing did.
-
-- Issue #9723: Add shlex.quote functions, to escape filenames and command
-  lines.
-
-- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.
-
-- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
-  collections when it is done.
-
-- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
-  given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
-
-- Issue #12576: Fix urlopen behavior on sites which do not send (or obfuscates)
-  ``Connection: close`` header.
-
-- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
-
-- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup under Turkish locales.
-
-- Issue #12591: Improve support of "universal newlines" in the subprocess
-  module: the piped streams can now be properly read from or written to.
-
-- Issue #12591: Allow io.TextIOWrapper to work with raw IO objects (without
-  a read1() method), and add a *write_through* parameter to mandate
-  unbuffered writes.
-
-- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib.request when using FTP.
-
-- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).
-
-- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.
-
-- Issue #12551: Provide a get_channel_binding() method on SSL sockets so as
-  to get channel binding data for the current SSL session (only the
-  "tls-unique" channel binding is implemented).  This allows the implementation
-  of certain authentication mechanisms such as SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS.  Patch by
-  Jacek Konieczny.
-
-- Issue #665194: email.utils now has format_datetime and parsedate_to_datetime
-  functions, allowing for round tripping of RFC2822 format dates.
-
-- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
-  directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
-  Linux 3.0.
-
-- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
-  commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.
-
-- Issue #12273: Remove ast.__version__. AST changes can be accounted for by
-  checking sys.version_info or sys._mercurial.
-
-- Silence spurious "broken pipe" tracebacks when shutting down a
-  ProcessPoolExecutor.
-
-- Fix potential resource leaks in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor
-  by joining all queues and processes when shutdown() is called.
-
-- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__.  Patch by
-  Andreas Stührk.
-
-- Issue #11321: Fix a crash with multiple imports of the _pickle module when
-  embedding Python.  Patch by Andreas Stührk.
-
-- Issue #6755: Add get_wch() method to curses.window class. Patch by Iñigo
-  Serna.
-
-- Add cgi.closelog() function to close the log file.
-
-- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.
-
-- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in a endian different than
-  the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.
-
-- Raise ValueError when attempting to set the _CHUNK_SIZE attribute of a
-  TextIOWrapper to a huge value, not TypeError.
-
-- Issue #12504: Close file handles in a timely manner in packaging.database.
-  This fixes a bug with the remove (uninstall) feature on Windows.
-
-- Issues #12169 and #10510: Factor out code used by various packaging commands
-  to make HTTP POST requests, and make sure it uses CRLF.
-
-- Issue #12016: Multibyte CJK decoders now resynchronize faster. They only
-  ignore the first byte of an invalid byte sequence. For example,
-  b'\xff\n'.decode('gb2312', 'replace') gives '\ufffd\n' instead of '\ufffd'.
-
-- Issue #12459: time.sleep() now raises a ValueError if the sleep length is
-  negative, instead of an infinite sleep on Windows or raising an IOError on
-  Linux for example, to have the same behaviour on all platforms.
-
-- Issue #12451: pydoc: html_getfile() now uses tokenize.open() to support
-  Python scripts using a encoding different than UTF-8 (read the coding cookie
-  of the script).
-
-- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
-  if the process has only one pipe.
-
-- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
-  shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.
-
-- Issue #12451: pydoc: importfile() now opens the Python script in binary mode,
-  instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to avoid encoding issues.
-
-- Issue #12451: runpy: run_path() now opens the Python script in binary mode,
-  instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to support other encodings
-  than UTF-8 (scripts using the coding cookie).
-
-- Issue #12451: xml.dom.pulldom: parse() now opens files in binary mode instead
-  of the text mode (using the locale encoding) to avoid encoding issues.
-
-- Issue #12147: Adjust the new-in-3.2 smtplib.send_message method for better
-  conformance to the RFCs:  correctly handle Sender and Resent- headers.
-
-- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
-  the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.
-
-- Issue #12462: time.sleep() now immediately calls the (Python) signal handler
-  if it is interrupted by a signal, instead of having to wait until the next
-  instruction.
-
-- Issue #12442: new shutil.disk_usage function, providing total, used and free
-  disk space statistics.
-
-- Issue #12451: The XInclude default loader of xml.etree now decodes files from
-  UTF-8 instead of the locale encoding if the encoding is not specified. It now
-  also opens XML files for the parser in binary mode instead of the text mode
-  to avoid encoding issues.
-
-- Issue #12451: doctest.debug_script() doesn't create a temporary file
-  anymore to avoid encoding issues.
-
-- Issue #12451: pydoc.synopsis() now reads the encoding cookie if available,
-  to read the Python script from the right encoding.
-
-- Issue #12451: distutils now opens the setup script in binary mode to read the
-  encoding cookie, instead of opening it in UTF-8.
-
-- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
-  check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
-  interpreter process.  This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
-  and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
-  environment after Distutils set it.  Instead, have Distutils set the
-  deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess.  It is
-  still possible to globally override the default by setting
-  MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
-  greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
-  was built.  Also, implement the same handling in packaging.
-
-- Issue #12422: In the copy module, don't store objects that are their own copy
-  in the memo dict.
-
-- Issue #12303: Add sigwaitinfo() and sigtimedwait() to the signal module.
-
-- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
-  Kitada.
-
-- Issue #1874: email now detects and reports as a defect the presence of
-  any CTE other than 7bit, 8bit, or binary on a multipart.
-
-- Issue #12383: Fix subprocess module with env={}: don't copy the environment
-  variables, start with an empty environment.
-
-- Issue #11637: Fix support for importing packaging setup hooks from the
-  project directory.
-
-- Issue #6771: Moved the curses.wrapper function from the single-function
-  wrapper module into __init__, eliminating the module.  Since __init__ was
-  already importing the function to curses.wrapper, there is no API change.
-
-- Issue #11584: email.header.decode_header no longer fails if the header
-  passed to it is a Header object, and Header/make_header no longer fail
-  if given binary unknown-8bit input.
-
-- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
-  times without error.
-
-- Issue #11767: Correct file descriptor leak in mailbox's __getitem__ method.
-
-- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
-  connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
-  written by Ezio Melotti.
-
-- Issue #12240: Allow multiple setup hooks in packaging's setup.cfg files.
-  Original patch by Erik Bray.
-
-- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
-  functions.
-
-- Issue #11595: Fix assorted bugs in packaging.util.cfg_to_args, a
-  compatibility helper for the distutils-packaging transition.  Original patch
-  by Erik Bray.
-
-- Issue #12287: In ossaudiodev, check that the device isn't closed in several
-  methods.
-
-- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.
-
-- Issue #12246: Warn and fail when trying to install a third-party project from
-  an uninstalled Python (built in a source checkout).  Original patch by
-  Tshepang Lekhonkhobe.
-
-- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.
-
-- Issue #12283: Fixed regression in smtplib quoting of leading dots in DATA.
-
-- Issue #10424: Argparse now includes the names of the missing required
-  arguments in the missing arguments error message.
-
-- Issue #12168: SysLogHandler now allows NUL termination to be controlled using
-  a new 'append_nul' attribute on the handler.
-
-- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
-  instead of os.stat.
-
-- Issue #12021: Make mmap's read() method argument optional. Patch by Petri
-  Lehtinen.
-
-- Issue #9205: concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor now detects killed
-  children and raises BrokenProcessPool in such a situation.  Previously it
-  would reliably freeze/deadlock.
-
-- Issue #12040: Expose a new attribute ``sentinel`` on instances of
-  ``multiprocessing.Process``.  Also, fix Process.join() to not use polling
-  anymore, when given a timeout.
-
-- Issue #11893: Remove obsolete internal wrapper class ``SSLFakeFile`` in the
-  smtplib module.  Patch by Catalin Iacob.
-
-- Issue #12080: Fix a Decimal.power() case that took an unreasonably long time
-  to compute.
-
-- Issue #12221: Remove __version__ attributes from pyexpat, pickle, tarfile,
-  pydoc, tkinter, and xml.parsers.expat. This were useless version constants
-  left over from the Mercurial transition
-
-- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
-
-- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
-  constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
-  written by Oleg Oshmyan.
-
-- Issue #12028: Make threading._get_ident() public, rename it to
-  threading.get_ident() and document it. This function was already used using
-  _thread.get_ident().
-
-- Issue #12171: IncrementalEncoder.reset() of CJK codecs (multibytecodec) calls
-  encreset() instead of decreset().
-
-- Issue #12218: Removed wsgiref.egg-info.
-
-- Issue #12196: Add pipe2() to the os module.
-
-- Issue #985064: Make plistlib more resilient to faulty input plists.
-  Patch by Mher Movsisyan.
-
-- Issue #1625: BZ2File and bz2.decompress() now support multi-stream files.
-  Initial patch by Nir Aides.
-
-- Issue #12175: BufferedReader.read(-1) now calls raw.readall() if available.
-
-- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now only reads the file position and size
-  once.
-
-- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
-
-- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
-  if the file is closed.
-
-- Issue #11109: New service_action method for BaseServer, used by ForkingMixin
-  class for cleanup. Initial Patch by Justin Warkentin.
-
-- Issue #12045: Avoid duplicate execution of command in
-  ctypes.util._get_soname().  Patch by Sijin Joseph.
-
-- Issue #10818: Remove the Tk GUI and the serve() function of the pydoc module,
-  pydoc -g has been deprecated in Python 3.2 and it has a new enhanced web
-  server.
-
-- Issue #1441530: In imaplib, read the data in one chunk to speed up large
-  reads and simplify code.
-
-- Issue #12070: Fix the Makefile parser of the sysconfig module to handle
-  correctly references to "bogus variable" (e.g. "prefix=$/opt/python").
-
-- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
-  their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
-  final argument is True.
-
-- Issue #12049: Add RAND_bytes() and RAND_pseudo_bytes() functions to the ssl
-  module.
-
-- Issue #6501: os.device_encoding() returns None on Windows if the application
-  has no console.
-
-- Issue #12105: Add O_CLOEXEC to the os module.
-
-- Issue #12079: Decimal('Infinity').fma(Decimal('0'), (3.91224318126786e+19+0j))
-  now raises TypeError (reflecting the invalid type of the 3rd argument) rather
-  than Decimal.InvalidOperation.
-
-- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
-  to be able to unload the module.
-
-- Add the packaging module, an improved fork of distutils (also known as
-  distutils2).
-
-- Issue #12065: connect_ex() on an SSL socket now returns the original errno
-  when the socket's timeout expires (it used to return None).
-
-- Issue #8809: The SMTP_SSL constructor and SMTP.starttls() now support
-  passing a ``context`` argument pointing to an ssl.SSLContext instance.
-  Patch by Kasun Herath.
-
-- Issue #9516: Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
-  is set in shell.
-
-- Issue #8650: Make zlib module 64-bit clean. compress(), decompress() and
-  their incremental counterparts now raise OverflowError if given an input
-  larger than 4GB, instead of silently truncating the input and returning
-  an incorrect result.
-
-- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
-  attribute when called without a max_length argument.
-
-- Issue #12062: Fix a flushing bug when doing a certain type of I/O sequence
-  on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading, seeking a bit forward,
-  writing, then seeking before the previous write but still within buffered
-  data, and writing again).
-
-- Issue #9971: Write an optimized implementation of BufferedReader.readinto().
-  Patch by John O'Connor.
-
-- Issue #11799: urllib.request Authentication Handlers will raise a ValueError
-  when presented with an unsupported Authentication Scheme. Patch contributed
-  by Yuval Greenfield.
-
-- Issue #10419, #6011: build_scripts command of distutils handles correctly
-  non-ASCII path (path to the Python executable). Open and write the script in
-  binary mode, but ensure that the shebang is decodable from UTF-8 and from the
-  encoding of the script.
-
-- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
-  order to accept exactly one connection.  Patch by Daniel Evers.
-
-- Issue #12011: signal.signal() and signal.siginterrupt() raise an OSError,
-  instead of a RuntimeError: OSError has an errno attribute.
-
-- Issue #3709: add a flush_headers method to BaseHTTPRequestHandler, which
-  manages the sending of headers to output stream and flushing the internal
-  headers buffer. Patch contribution by Andrew Schaaf
-
-- Issue #11743: Rewrite multiprocessing connection classes in pure Python.
-
-- Issue #11164: Stop trying to use _xmlplus in the xml module.
-
-- Issue #11888: Add log2 function to math module. Patch written by Mark
-  Dickinson.
-
-- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
-
-- Issue #8407: The signal handler writes the signal number as a single byte
-  instead of a nul byte into the wakeup file descriptor. So it is possible to
-  wait more than one signal and know which signals were raised.
-
-- Issue #8407: Add pthread_kill(), sigpending() and sigwait() functions to the
-  signal module.
-
-- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented.  Patch
-  by Kasun Herath.
-
-- Issue #12002: ftplib's abort() method raises TypeError.
-
-- Issue #11916: Add a number of MacOSX specific definitions to the errno module.
-  Patch by Pierre Carrier.
-
-- Issue #11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
-  detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
-  previous value of the mtime.
-
-- Issue #11072: added MLSD command (RFC-3659) support to ftplib.
-
-- Issue #8808: The IMAP4_SSL constructor now allows passing an SSLContext
-  parameter to control parameters of the secure channel.  Patch by Sijin
-  Joseph.
-
-- ntpath.samefile failed to notice that "a.txt" and "A.TXT" refer to the same
-  file on Windows XP. As noticed in issue #10684.
-
-- Issue #12000: When a SSL certificate has a subjectAltName without any
-  dNSName entry, ssl.match_hostname() should use the subject's commonName.
-  Patch by Nicolas Bareil.
-
-- Issue #10775: assertRaises, assertRaisesRegex, assertWarns, and
-  assertWarnsRegex now accept a keyword argument 'msg' when used as context
-  managers.  Initial patch by Winston Ewert.
-
-- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
-  filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
-  for the case.
-
-- Issue #11647: objects created using contextlib.contextmanager now support
-  more than one call to the function when used as a decorator. Initial patch
-  by Ysj Ray.
-
-- Issue #11930: Removed deprecated time.accept2dyear variable.
-  Removed year >= 1000 restriction from datetime.strftime.
-
-- logging: don't define QueueListener if Python has no thread support.
-
-- functools.cmp_to_key() now works with collections.Hashable().
-
-- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
-  around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
-
-- Issue #8407: Add signal.pthread_sigmask() function to fetch and/or change the
-  signal mask of the calling thread.
-
-- Issue #11858: configparser.ExtendedInterpolation expected lower-case section
-  names.
-
-- Issue #11324: ConfigParser(interpolation=None) now works correctly.
-
-- Issue #11811: ssl.get_server_certificate() is now IPv6-compatible.  Patch
-  by Charles-François Natali.
-
-- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
-  strings are too long.
-
-- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.
-
-- Issue #11856: Speed up parsing of JSON numbers.
-
-- Issue #11005: threading.RLock()._release_save() raises a RuntimeError if the
-  lock was not acquired.
-
-- Issue #11258: Speed up ctypes.util.find_library() under Linux by a factor
-  of 5 to 10.  Initial patch by Jonas H.
-
-- Issue #11382: Trivial system calls, such as dup() or pipe(), needn't
-  release the GIL.  Patch by Charles-François Natali.
-
-- Issue #11223: Add threading._info() function providing informations about
-  the thread implementation.
-
-- Issue #11731: simplify/enhance email parser/generator API by introducing
-  policy objects.
-
-- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
-  Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
-  parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.
-
-- Issue #11492: fix several issues with header folding in the email package.
-
-- Issue #11852: Add missing imports and update tests.
-
-- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
-  mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.
-
-- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
-  specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
-
-- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.
-
-- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
-  Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
-
-- Issue #11684: complete email.parser bytes API by adding BytesHeaderParser.
-
-- The bz2 module now handles 4GiB+ input buffers correctly.
-
-- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
-  _json is not available.
-
-- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.
-
-- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
-  url contains #fragment.
-
-- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
-  adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.
-
-- Issue #11186: pydoc ignores a module if its name contains a surrogate
-  character in the index of modules.
-
-- Issue #11815: Use a light-weight SimpleQueue for the result queue in
-  concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor.
-
-- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
-  from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.
-
-- logging.basicConfig now supports an optional 'handlers' argument taking an
-  iterable of handlers to be added to the root logger. Additional parameter
-  checks were also added to basicConfig.
-
-- Issue #11814: Fix likely typo in multiprocessing.Pool._terminate().
-
-- Issue #11747: Fix range formatting in difflib.context_diff() and
-  difflib.unified_diff().
-
-- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
-  worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being
-  shut down.  Patch by Charles-François Natali.
-
-- Issue #2650: re.escape() no longer escapes the '_'.
-
-- Issue #11757: select.select() now raises ValueError when a negative timeout
-  is passed (previously, a select.error with EINVAL would be raised).  Patch
-  by Charles-François Natali.
-
-- Issue #7311: fix html.parser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.
-
-- Issue #11605: email.parser.BytesFeedParser was incorrectly converting
-  multipart subparts with an 8-bit CTE into unicode instead of preserving the
-  bytes.
-
-- Issue #1690608: email.util.formataddr is now RFC 2047 aware:  it now has a
-  charset parameter that defaults to utf-8 and is used as the charset for RFC
-  2047 encoding when the realname contains non-ASCII characters.
-
-- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.
-
-- Issue #10791: Implement missing method GzipFile.read1(), allowing GzipFile
-  to be wrapped in a TextIOWrapper.  Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
-
-- Issue #11707: Added a fast C version of functools.cmp_to_key().
-  Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
-
-- Issue #11688: Add sqlite3.Connection.set_trace_callback().  Patch by
-  Torsten Landschoff.
-
-- Issue #11746: Fix SSLContext.load_cert_chain() to accept elliptic curve
-  private keys.
-
-- Issue #5863: Rewrite BZ2File in pure Python, and allow it to accept
-  file-like objects using a new ``fileobj`` constructor argument.  Patch by
-  Nadeem Vawda.
-
-- unittest.TestCase.assertSameElements has been removed.
-
-- sys.getfilesystemencoding() raises a RuntimeError if initfsencoding() was not
-  called yet: detect bootstrap (startup) issues earlier.
-
-- Issue #11393: Add the new faulthandler module.
-
-- Issue #11618: Fix the timeout logic in threading.Lock.acquire() under Windows.
-
-- Removed the 'strict' argument to email.parser.Parser, which has been
-  deprecated since Python 2.4.
-
-- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
-  arguments.
-
-- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.
-
-- itertools.accumulate now supports an optional *func* argument for
-  a user-supplied binary function.
-
-- Issue #11692: Remove unnecessary demo functions in subprocess module.
-
-- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
-  trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.
-
-- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
-  are now zeroed on creation.  This matches the behaviour specified by the
-  documentation.
-
-- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi
-
-- Issue #11635: Don't use polling in worker threads and processes launched by
-  concurrent.futures.
-
-- Issue #5845: Automatically read readline configuration to enable completion
-  in interactive mode.
-
-- Issue #6811: Allow importlib to change a code object's co_filename attribute
-  to match the path to where the source code currently is, not where the code
-  object originally came from.
-
-- Issue #8754: Have importlib use the repr of a module name in error messages.
-
-- Issue #11591: Prevent "import site" from modifying sys.path when python
-  was started with -S.
-
-- collections.namedtuple() now adds a _source attribute to the generated
-  class.  This make the source more accessible than the outdated
-  "verbose" option which prints to stdout but doesn't make the source
-  string available.
-
-- Issue #11371: Mark getopt error messages as localizable.  Patch by Filip
-  Gruszczyński.
-
-- Issue #11333: Add __slots__ to collections ABCs.
-
-- Issue #11628: cmp_to_key generated class should use __slots__.
-
-- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
-  that start with a leading underscore.
-
-- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
-  scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
-
-- Issue #5537: Fix time2isoz() and time2netscape() functions of
-  httplib.cookiejar for expiration year greater than 2038 on 32-bit systems.
-
-- Issue #4391: Use proper gettext plural forms in optparse.
-
-- Issue #11127: Raise a TypeError when trying to pickle a socket object.
-
-- Issue #11563: ``Connection: close`` header is sent by requests using URLOpener
-  class which helps in closing of sockets after connection is over. Patch
-  contributions by Jeff McNeil and Nadeem Vawda.
-
-- Issue #11459: A ``bufsize`` value of 0 in subprocess.Popen() really creates
-  unbuffered pipes, such that select() works properly on them.
-
-- Issue #5421: Fix misleading error message when one of socket.sendto()'s
-  arguments has the wrong type.  Patch by Nikita Vetoshkin.
-
-- Issue #10812: Add some extra posix functions to the os module.
-
-- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
-  setup and teardown.
-
-- Issue #11243: fix the parameter querying methods of Message to work if
-  the headers contain un-encoded non-ASCII data.
-
-- Issue #11401: fix handling of headers with no value; this fixes a regression
-  relative to Python2 and the result is now the same as it was in Python2.
-
-- Issue #9298: base64 bodies weren't being folded to line lengths less than 78,
-  which was a regression relative to Python2.  Unlike Python2, the last line
-  of the folded body now ends with a carriage return.
-
-- Issue #11560: shutil.unpack_archive now correctly handles the format
-  parameter. Patch by Evan Dandrea.
-
-- Issue #5870: Add `subprocess.DEVNULL` constant.
-
-- Issue #11133: fix two cases where inspect.getattr_static can trigger code
-  execution. Patch by Andreas Stührk.
-
-- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
-  ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
-  that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.
-
-- Issue #11501: disutils.archive_utils.make_zipfile no longer fails if zlib is
-  not installed. Instead, the zipfile.ZIP_STORED compression is used to create
-  the ZipFile. Patch by Natalia B. Bidart.
-
-- Issue #11289: `smtp.SMTP` class is now a context manager so it can be used
-  in a `with` statement.  Contributed by Giampaolo Rodola.
-
-- Issue #11554: Fixed support for Japanese codecs; previously the body output
-  encoding was not done if euc-jp or shift-jis was specified as the charset.
-
-- Issue #11407: `TestCase.run` returns the result object used or created.
-  Contributed by Janathan Hartley.
-
-- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the OS X proxy bypass code for fully qualified
-  IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
-
-- Issue #11491: dbm.error is no longer raised when dbm.open is called with
-  the "n" as the flag argument and the file exists. The behavior matches
-  the documentation and general logic.
-
-- Issue #1162477: Postel Principle adjustment to email date parsing: handle the
-  fact that some non-compliant MUAs use '.' instead of ':' in time specs.
-
-- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in decimal.Decimal plus and minus
-  operations when the rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.
-
-- Issue #9935: Speed up pickling of instances of user-defined classes.
-
-- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
-  initialization fails.
-
-- Issue #11408: In threading.Lock.acquire(), only call gettimeofday() when
-  really necessary.  Patch by Charles-François Natali.
-
-- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
-  ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
-  TypeError.  Patch by Charles-François Natali.
-
-- Issue #9795: add context manager protocol support for nntplib.NNTP class.
-
-- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
-  certain files in read-write mode.  Previously it detected this by
-  checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.
-
-- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
-  on accept(), send() and recv().
-
-- Issue #11377: Deprecate platform.popen() and reimplement it with os.popen().
-
-- Issue #8513: On UNIX, subprocess supports bytes command string.
-
-- Issue #10866: Add socket.sethostname().  Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
-
-- Issue #11140: Lock.release() now raises a RuntimeError when attempting
-  to release an unacquired lock, as claimed in the threading documentation.
-  The _thread.error exception is now an alias of RuntimeError.  Patch by
-  Filip Gruszczyński.  Patch for _dummy_thread by Aymeric Augustin.
-
-- Issue #8594: ftplib now provides a source_address parameter to specify which
-  (address, port) to bind to before connecting.
-
-- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
-  and make it work for non-blocking connects.
-
-- Issue #11297: Add collections.ChainMap().
-
-- Issue #10755: Add the posix.flistdir() function.  Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
-
-- Issue #4761: Add the ``*at()`` family of functions (openat(), etc.) to the
-  posix module.  Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
-
-- Issue #7322: Trying to read from a socket's file-like object after a timeout
-  occurred now raises an error instead of silently losing data.
-
-- Issue #11291: poplib.POP no longer suppresses errors on quit().
-
-- Issue #11177: asyncore's create_socket() arguments can now be omitted.
-
-- Issue #6064: Add a ``daemon`` keyword argument to the threading.Thread
-  and multiprocessing.Process constructors in order to override the
-  default behaviour of inheriting the daemonic property from the current
-  thread/process.
-
-- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
-  has arrived and the handler returned successfully.
-
-- Issue #10784: New os.getpriority() and os.setpriority() functions.
-
-- Issue #11114: Fix catastrophic performance of tell() on text files (up
-  to 1000x faster in some cases).  It is still one to two order of magnitudes
-  slower than binary tell().
-
-- Issue #10882: Add os.sendfile function.
-
-- Issue #10868: Allow usage of the register method of an ABC as a class
-  decorator.
-
-- Issue #11224: Fixed a regression in tarfile that affected the file-like
-  objects returned by TarFile.extractfile() regarding performance, memory
-  consumption and failures with the stream interface.
-
-- Issue #10924: Adding salt and Modular Crypt Format to crypt library.
-  Moved old C wrapper to _crypt, and added a Python wrapper with
-  enhanced salt generation and simpler API for password generation.
-
-- Issue #11074: Make 'tokenize' so it can be reloaded.
-
-- Issue #11085: Moved collections abstract base classes into a separate
-  module called collections.abc, following the pattern used by importlib.abc.
-  For backwards compatibility, the names are imported into the collections
-  module.
-
-- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
-  4GB, even on 32-bit builds.  Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
-  32-bit Windows.
-
-- Issue #11169: compileall module uses repr() to format filenames and paths to
-  escape surrogate characters and show spaces.
-
-- Issue #11089: Fix performance issue limiting the use of ConfigParser()
-  with large config files.
-
-- Issue #10276: Fix the results of zlib.crc32() and zlib.adler32() on buffers
-  larger than 4GB.  Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
-
-- Issue #11388: Added a clear() method to MutableSequence
-
-- Issue #11174: Add argparse.MetavarTypeHelpFormatter, which uses type names
-  for the names of optional and positional arguments in help messages.
-
-- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
-
-- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
-
-- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
-
-- Issue #12191: Added shutil.chown() to change user and/or group owner of a
-  given path also specifying their names.
-
-- Issue #13988: The _elementtree accelerator is used whenever available.
-  Now xml.etree.cElementTree becomes a deprecated alias to ElementTree.
-
-Build
------
-
-- Issue #6807: Run msisupport.mak earlier.
-
-- Issue #10580: Minor grammar change in Windows installer.
-
-- Issue #13326: Clean __pycache__ directories correctly on OpenBSD.
-
-- PEP 393: the configure option --with-wide-unicode is removed.
-
-- Issue #12852: Set _XOPEN_SOURCE to 700, instead of 600, to get POSIX 2008
-  functions on OpenBSD (e.g. fdopendir).
-
-- Issue #11863: Remove support for legacy systems deprecated in Python 3.2
-  (following PEP 11).  These systems are systems using Mach C Threads,
-  SunOS lightweight processes, GNU pth threads and IRIX threads.
-
-- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
-  os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these
-  functions (BSD and OS X).  Also add new stat file flags for OS X
-  (UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).
-
-- Issue #10645: Installing Python no longer creates a
-  Python-X.Y.Z-pyX.Y.egg-info file in the lib-dynload directory.
-
-- Do not accidentally include the directory containing sqlite.h twice when
-  building sqlite3.
-
-- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds,
-  ensure "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32"
-  files in the framework bin directory like the installer does.
-
-- Issue #11347: Use --no-as-needed when linking libpython3.so.
-
-- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
-
-- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
-  package had previously been installed.
-
-- Issue #11495: OSF support is eliminated. It was deprecated in Python 3.2.
-
-IDLE
-----
-
-- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
-  when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
-  has to use the built-in default key bindings.
-  There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
-
-- IDLE can be launched as python -m idlelib
-
-- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
-  (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
-
-- Issue #14200: IDLE shell crash on printing non-BMP unicode character.
-
-- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
-
-- Issue #964437: Make IDLE help window non-modal.
-  Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.
-
-- Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
-  module, like hashlib.  (Patch by Roger Serwy)
-
-- Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
-  Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
-
-- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint files,
-  display a message popup and continue rather than crash.  Original patch by
-  Roger Serwy.
-
-- Issue #8641: Update IDLE 3 syntax coloring to recognize b".." and not u"..".
-  Patch by Tal Einat.
-
-- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
-  (Patch by Roger Serwy)
-
-- Issue #9871: Prevent IDLE 3 crash when given byte stings
-  with invalid hex escape sequences, like b'\x0'.
-  (Original patch by Claudiu Popa.)
-
-- Issue #12636: IDLE reads the coding cookie when executing a Python script.
-
-- Issue #12540: Prevent zombie IDLE processes on Windows due to changes
-  in os.kill().
-
-- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
-  when opening a long file.  With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
-
-- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
-  with Tk 8.5.
-
-- Issue #1028: Tk returns invalid Unicode null in %A: UnicodeDecodeError.
-  With Tk < 8.5 _tkinter.c:PythonCmd() raised UnicodeDecodeError, caused
-  IDLE to exit.  Converted to valid Unicode null in PythonCmd().
-
-- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
-  file in a package.
-
-Tools/Demos
------------
-
-- Issue #14053: patchcheck.py ("make patchcheck") now works with MQ patches.
-  Patch by Francisco Martín Brugué.
-
-- Issue #13930: 2to3 is now able to write its converted output files to another
-  directory tree as well as copying unchanged files and altering the file
-  suffix.  See its new -o, -W and --add-suffix options.  This makes it more
-  useful in many automated code translation workflows.
-
-- Issue #13628: python-gdb.py is now able to retrieve more frames in the Python
-  traceback if Python is optimized.
-
-- Issue #11996: libpython (gdb), replace "py-bt" command by "py-bt-full" and
-  add a smarter "py-bt" command printing a classic Python traceback.
-
-- Issue #11179: Make ccbench work under Python 3.1 and 2.7 again.
-
-- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
-  an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
-  "--newline" option added to specify new line character.
-
-Extension Modules
------------------
-
-- Issue #16847: Fixed improper use of _PyUnicode_CheckConsistency() in
-  non-pydebug builds. Several extension modules now compile cleanly when
-  assert()s are enabled in standard builds (-DDEBUG flag).
-
-- Issue #13840: The error message produced by ctypes.create_string_buffer
-  when given a Unicode string has been fixed.
-
-- Issue #9975: socket: Fix incorrect use of flowinfo and scope_id. Patch by
-  Vilmos Nebehaj.
-
-- Issue #7777: socket: Add Reliable Datagram Sockets (PF_RDS) support.
-
-- Issue #13159: FileIO and BZ2Compressor/BZ2Decompressor now use a linear-time
-  buffer growth strategy instead of a quadratic-time one.
-
-- Issue #10141: socket: Add SocketCAN (PF_CAN) support. Initial patch by
-  Matthias Fuchs, updated by Tiago Gonçalves.
-
-- Issue #13070: Fix a crash when a TextIOWrapper caught in a reference cycle
-  would be finalized after the reference to its underlying BufferedRWPair's
-  writer got cleared by the GC.
-
-- Issue #12881: ctypes: Fix segfault with large structure field names.
-
-- Issue #13058: ossaudiodev: fix a file descriptor leak on error. Patch by
-  Thomas Jarosch.
-
-- Issue #13013: ctypes: Fix a reference leak in PyCArrayType_from_ctype.
-  Thanks to Suman Saha for finding the bug and providing a patch.
-
-- Issue #13022: Fix: _multiprocessing.recvfd() doesn't check that
-  file descriptor was actually received.
-
-- Issue #1172711: Add 'long long' support to the array module.
-  Initial patch by Oren Tirosh and Hirokazu Yamamoto.
-
-- Issue #12483: ctypes: Fix a crash when the destruction of a callback
-  object triggers the garbage collector.
-
-- Issue #12950: Fix passing file descriptors in multiprocessing, under
-  OpenIndiana/Illumos.
-
-- Issue #12764: Fix a crash in ctypes when the name of a Structure field is not
-  a string.
-
-- Issue #11241: subclasses of ctypes.Array can now be subclassed.
-
-- Issue #9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to
-  some functions like file.write().
-
-- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
-  signature.  Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
-  broken.  Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.
-
-- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
-  objects using the C accelerations.
-
-- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
-  objects using the C accelerations.
-
-- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
-  to an instance of the class.
-
-Tests
------
-
-- Issue #13125: Silence spurious test_lib2to3 output when in non-verbose mode.
-  Patch by Mikhail Novikov.
-
-- Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
-  scripts found in the Tools directory.
-
-- Issue #10881: Fix test_site failure with OS X framework builds.
-
-- Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
-
-- Issue #13862: Fix spurious failure in test_zlib due to runtime/compile time
-  minor versions not matching.
-
-- Issue #12804: Fix test_socket and test_urllib2net failures when running tests
-  on a system without internet access.
-
-- Issue #13726: Fix the ambiguous -S flag in regrtest. It is -o/--slow for slow
-  tests.
-
-- Issue #11659: Fix ResourceWarning in test_subprocess introduced by #11459.
-  Patch by Ben Hayden.
-
-- Issue #11577: fix ResourceWarning triggered by improved binhex test coverage
-
-- Issue #11509: Significantly increase test coverage of fileinput.
-  Patch by Denver Coneybeare at PyCon 2011 Sprints.
-
-- Issue #11689: Fix a variable scoping error in an sqlite3 test
-
-- Issue #13786: Remove unimplemented 'trace' long option from regrtest.py.
-
-- Issue #13725: Fix regrtest to recognize the documented -d flag.
-  Patch by Erno Tukia.
-
-- Issue #13304: Skip test case if user site-packages disabled (-s or
-  PYTHONNOUSERSITE).  (Patch by Carl Meyer)
-
-- Issue #5661: Add a test for ECONNRESET/EPIPE handling to test_asyncore. Patch
-  by Xavier de Gaye.
-
-- Issue #13218: Fix test_ssl failures on Debian/Ubuntu.
-
-- Re-enable lib2to3's test_parser.py tests, though with an expected failure
-  (see issue 13125).
-
-- Issue #12656: Add tests for IPv6 and Unix sockets to test_asyncore.
-
-- Issue #6484: Add unit tests for mailcap module (patch by Gregory Nofi)
-
-- Issue #11651: Improve the Makefile test targets to run more of the test suite
-  more quickly. The --multiprocess option is now enabled by default, reducing
-  the amount of time needed to run the tests. "make test" and "make quicktest"
-  now include some resource-intensive tests, but no longer run the test suite
-  twice to check for bugs in .pyc generation. Tools/scripts/run_test.py provides
-  an easy platform-independent way to run test suite with sensible defaults.
-
-- Issue #12331: The test suite for the packaging module can now run from an
-  installed Python.
-
-- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
-  Python.
-
-- Issue #12626: In regrtest, allow to filter tests using a glob filter
-  with the ``-m`` (or ``--match``) option.  This works with all test cases
-  using the unittest module.  This is useful with long test suites
-  such as test_io or test_subprocess.
-
-- Issue #12624: It is now possible to fail after the first failure when
-  running in verbose mode (``-v`` or ``-W``), by using the ``--failfast``
-  (or ``-G``) option to regrtest.  This is useful with long test suites
-  such as test_io or test_subprocess.
-
-- Issue #12587: Correct faulty test file and reference in test_tokenize.
-  (Patch by Robert Xiao)
-
-- Issue #12573: Add resource checks for dangling Thread and Process objects.
-
-- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
-  as the processor type on some Mac systems.
-
-- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
-  failure in name resolution.
-
-- Issue #11812: Solve transient socket failure to connect to 'localhost'
-  in test_telnetlib.py.
-
-- Solved a potential deadlock in test_telnetlib.py. Related to issue #11812.
-
-- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
-  an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
-  Web site.
-
-- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
-  DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name.  The test
-  is now skipped instead.
-
-- Issue #12440: When testing whether some bits in SSLContext.options can be
-  reset, check the version of the OpenSSL headers Python was compiled against,
-  rather than the runtime version of the OpenSSL library.
-
-- Issue #11512: Add a test suite for the cgitb module. Patch by Robbie Clemons.
-
-- Issue #12497: Install test/data to prevent failures of the various codecmaps
-  tests.
-
-- Issue #12496: Install test/capath directory to prevent test_connect_capath
-  testcase failure in test_ssl.
-
-- Issue #12469: Run wakeup and pending signal tests in a subprocess to run the
-  test in a fresh process with only one thread and to not change signal
-  handling of the parent process.
-
-- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
-  test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
-  in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).
-
-- Issue #12407: Explicitly skip test_capi.EmbeddingTest under Windows.
-
-- Issue #12400: regrtest -W doesn't rerun the tests twice anymore, but captures
-  the output and displays it on failure instead. regrtest -v doesn't print the
-  error twice anymore if there is only one error.
-
-- Issue #12141: Install copies of template C module file so that
-  test_build_ext of test_distutils and test_command_build_ext of
-  test_packaging are no longer silently skipped when
-  run outside of a build directory.
-
-- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags().
-  Patch by Garrett Cooper.
-
-- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9
-  2.8 +  on Mac OS X.  (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)
-
-- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
-  iso2022_kr).
-
-- Issue #12096: Fix a race condition in test_threading.test_waitfor(). Patch
-  written by Charles-François Natali.
-
-- Issue #11614: import __hello__ prints "Hello World!". Patch written by
-  Andreas Stührk.
-
-- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
-
-- Issue #12041: Make test_wait3 more robust.
-
-- Issue #11873: Change regex in test_compileall to fix occasional failures when
-  when the randomly generated temporary path happened to match the regex.
-
-- Issue #11958: Fix FTP tests for IPv6, bind to "::1" instead of "localhost".
-  Patch written by Charles-Francois Natali.
-
-- Issue #8407, #11859: Fix tests of test_io using threads and an alarm: use
-  pthread_sigmask() to ensure that the SIGALRM signal is received by the main
-  thread.
-
-- Issue #11811: Factor out detection of IPv6 support on the current host
-  and make it available as ``test.support.IPV6_ENABLED``.  Patch by
-  Charles-François Natali.
-
-- Issue #10914: Add a minimal embedding test to test_capi.
-
-- Issue #11223: Skip test_lock_acquire_interruption() and
-  test_rlock_acquire_interruption() of test_threadsignals if a thread lock is
-  implemented using a POSIX mutex and a POSIX condition variable. A POSIX
-  condition variable cannot be interrupted by a signal (e.g. on Linux, the
-  futex system call is restarted).
-
-- Issue #11790: Fix sporadic failures in test_multiprocessing.WithProcessesTestCondition.
-
-- Fix possible "file already exists" error when running the tests in parallel.
-
-- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
-  platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
-
-- Issue #11727: Add a --timeout option to regrtest: if a test takes more than
-  TIMEOUT seconds, dumps the traceback of all threads and exits.
-
-- Issue #11653: fix -W with -j in regrtest.
-
-- The email test suite now lives in the Lib/test/test_email package.  The test
-  harness code has also been modernized to allow use of new unittest features.
-
-- regrtest now discovers test packages as well as test modules.
-
-- Issue #11577: improve test coverage of binhex.py. Patch by Arkady Koplyarov.
-
-- New test_crashers added to exercise the scripts in the Lib/test/crashers
-  directory and confirm they fail as expected
-
-- Issue #11578: added test for the timeit module.  Patch by Michael Henry.
-
-- Issue #11503: improve test coverage of posixpath.py. Patch by Evan Dandrea.
-
-- Issue #11505: improves test coverage of string.py, increases granularity of
-  string.Formatter tests. Initial patch by Alicia Arlen.
-
-- Issue #11548: Improve test coverage of the shutil module. Patch by
-  Evan Dandrea.
-
-- Issue #11554: Reactivated test_email_codecs.
-
-- Issue #11505: improves test coverage of string.py. Patch by Alicia
-  Arlen
-
-- Issue #11490: test_subprocess.test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
-  false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
-
-- Issue #11223: Fix test_threadsignals to fail, not hang, when the
-  non-semaphore implementation of locks is used under POSIX.
-
-- Issue #10911: Add tests on CGI with non-ASCII characters. Patch written by
-  Pierre Quentel.
-
-- Issue #9931: Fix hangs in GUI tests under Windows in certain conditions.
-  Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
-
-- Issue #10512: Properly close sockets under test.test_cgi.
-
-- Issue #10992: Make tests pass under coverage.
-
-- Issue #10826: Prevent sporadic failure in test_subprocess on Solaris due
-  to open door files.
-
-- Issue #10990: Prevent tests from clobbering a set trace function.
-
-C-API
------
-
-- Issue #13452: PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal() doesn't support error handlers
-  different than "strict" anymore. The caller was unable to compute the
-  size of the output buffer: it depends on the error handler.
-
-- Issue #13560: Add PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(), PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize()
-  and PyUnicode_EncodeLocale() functions to the C API to decode/encode from/to
-  the current locale encoding.
-
-- Issue #10831: PyUnicode_FromFormat() supports %li, %lli and %zi formats.
-
-- Issue #11246: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormat("%V") to decode the byte string from
-  UTF-8 (with replace error handler) instead of ISO-8859-1 (in strict mode).
-  Patch written by Ray Allen.
-
-- Issue #10830: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormatV("%c") for non-BMP characters on
-  narrow build.
-
-- Add PyObject_GenericGetDict and PyObject_GeneriSetDict. They are generic
-  implementations for the getter and setter of a ``__dict__`` descriptor of C
-  types.
-
-- Issue #13727: Add 3 macros to access PyDateTime_Delta members:
-  PyDateTime_DELTA_GET_DAYS, PyDateTime_DELTA_GET_SECONDS,
-  PyDateTime_DELTA_GET_MICROSECONDS.
-
-- Issue #10542: Add 4 macros to work with surrogates: Py_UNICODE_IS_SURROGATE,
-  Py_UNICODE_IS_HIGH_SURROGATE, Py_UNICODE_IS_LOW_SURROGATE,
-  Py_UNICODE_JOIN_SURROGATES.
-
-- Issue #12724: Add Py_RETURN_NOTIMPLEMENTED macro for returning NotImplemented.
-
-- PY_PATCHLEVEL_REVISION has been removed, since it's meaningless with
-  Mercurial.
-
-- Issue #12173: The first argument of PyImport_ImportModuleLevel is now `const
-  char *` instead of `char *`.
-
-- Issue #12380: PyArg_ParseTuple now accepts a bytearray for the 'c' format.
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- Issue #13989: Document that GzipFile does not support text mode, and give a
-  more helpful error message when opened with an invalid mode string.
-
-- Issue #13921: Undocument and clean up sqlite3.OptimizedUnicode,
-  which is obsolete in Python 3.x. It's now aliased to str for
-  backwards compatibility.
-
-- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
-  with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
-
-- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
-
-- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
-  their children.
-
-- Issue #13498: Clarify docs of os.makedirs()'s exist_ok argument.  Done with
-  great native-speaker help from R. David Murray.
-
-- Issues #13491 and #13995: Fix many errors in sqlite3 documentation.
-  Initial patch for #13491 by Johannes Vogel.
-
-- Issue #13402: Document absoluteness of sys.executable.
-
-- Issue #13883: PYTHONCASEOK also works on OS X.
-
-- Issue #9021: Add an introduction to the copy module documentation.
-
-- Issue #6005: Examples in the socket library documentation use sendall, where
-  relevant, instead send method.
-
-- Issue #12798: Updated the mimetypes documentation.
-
-- Issue #12949: Document the kwonlyargcount argument for the PyCode_New
-  C API function.
-
-- Issue #13513: Fix io.IOBase documentation to correctly link to the
-  io.IOBase.readline method instead of the readline module.
-
-- Issue #13237: Reorganise subprocess documentation to emphasise convenience
-  functions and the most commonly needed arguments to Popen.
-
-- Issue #13141: Demonstrate recommended style for socketserver examples.
-
-- Issue #11818: Fix tempfile examples for Python 3.
-
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