diff --git a/Lib/Cookie.py b/Lib/Cookie.py
index fc6d9f6..b4f9db4 100644
--- a/Lib/Cookie.py
+++ b/Lib/Cookie.py
@@ -534,6 +534,8 @@
     r"(?P<val>"                   # Start of group 'val'
     r'"(?:[^\\"]|\\.)*"'            # Any doublequoted string
     r"|"                            # or
+    r"\w{3},\s[\w\d-]{9,11}\s[\d:]{8}\sGMT" # Special case for "expires" attr
+    r"|"                            # or
     ""+ _LegalCharsPatt +"*"        # Any word or empty string
     r")"                          # End of group 'val'
     r"\s*;?"                      # Probably ending in a semi-colon
diff --git a/Lib/posixpath.py b/Lib/posixpath.py
index b6438bd..b01c3cb 100644
--- a/Lib/posixpath.py
+++ b/Lib/posixpath.py
@@ -178,6 +178,9 @@
 
 def ismount(path):
     """Test whether a path is a mount point"""
+    if islink(path):
+        # A symlink can never be a mount point
+        return False
     try:
         s1 = os.lstat(path)
         s2 = os.lstat(join(path, '..'))
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_cookie.py b/Lib/test/test_cookie.py
index 6523b9b..0e74ccf 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_cookie.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_cookie.py
@@ -62,6 +62,16 @@
         </script>
         """)
 
+        # loading 'expires'
+        C = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
+        C.load('Customer="W"; expires=Wed, 01-Jan-2010 00:00:00 GMT')
+        self.assertEqual(C['Customer']['expires'],
+                         'Wed, 01-Jan-2010 00:00:00 GMT')
+        C = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
+        C.load('Customer="W"; expires=Wed, 01-Jan-98 00:00:00 GMT')
+        self.assertEqual(C['Customer']['expires'],
+                         'Wed, 01-Jan-98 00:00:00 GMT')
+
     def test_quoted_meta(self):
         # Try cookie with quoted meta-data
         C = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
diff --git a/Lib/timeit.py b/Lib/timeit.py
index 052f140..a095313 100644
--- a/Lib/timeit.py
+++ b/Lib/timeit.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 Library usage: see the Timer class.
 
 Command line usage:
-    python timeit.py [-n N] [-r N] [-s S] [-t] [-c] [-h] [statement]
+    python timeit.py [-n N] [-r N] [-s S] [-t] [-c] [-h] [--] [statement]
 
 Options:
   -n/--number N: how many times to execute 'statement' (default: see below)
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
   -c/--clock: use time.clock() (default on Windows)
   -v/--verbose: print raw timing results; repeat for more digits precision
   -h/--help: print this usage message and exit
+  --: separate options from statement, use when statement starts with -
   statement: statement to be timed (default 'pass')
 
 A multi-line statement may be given by specifying each line as a
diff --git a/Lib/trace.py b/Lib/trace.py
index 7d504c1..5f124d9 100644
--- a/Lib/trace.py
+++ b/Lib/trace.py
@@ -195,11 +195,13 @@
         base = path[len(longest) + 1:]
     else:
         base = path
+    # the drive letter is never part of the module name
+    drive, base = os.path.splitdrive(base)
     base = base.replace(os.sep, ".")
     if os.altsep:
         base = base.replace(os.altsep, ".")
     filename, ext = os.path.splitext(base)
-    return filename
+    return filename.lstrip(".")
 
 class CoverageResults:
     def __init__(self, counts=None, calledfuncs=None, infile=None,
@@ -798,7 +800,16 @@
                   ignoredirs=ignore_dirs, infile=counts_file,
                   outfile=counts_file, timing=timing)
         try:
-            t.run('execfile(%r)' % (progname,))
+            with open(progname) as fp:
+                code = compile(fp.read(), progname, 'exec')
+            # try to emulate __main__ namespace as much as possible
+            globs = {
+                '__file__': progname,
+                '__name__': '__main__',
+                '__package__': None,
+                '__cached__': None,
+            }
+            t.runctx(code, globs, globs)
         except IOError, err:
             _err_exit("Cannot run file %r because: %s" % (sys.argv[0], err))
         except SystemExit: