Issue #22943: bsddb tests are locale independend now.
This fixes tests on 8-bit locales (in particular on Windows).

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Issue #21032. Fixed socket leak if HTTPConnection.getresponse() fails.
Original patch by Martin Panter.

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Removed duplicated words in in comments and docs.

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Add NEWS items for Idle patches already in 2.7.9rc1.

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