Issue #21776: Merge from 3.5

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  Python News
  +++++++++++
  
 -What's New in Python 3.5.2 release candidate 1?
 -===============================================
 +What's New in Python 3.6.0 alpha 2
 +==================================
 +
 +*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
 +
 +Core and Builtins
 +-----------------
 +
 +- Issue #27097: Python interpreter is now about 7% faster due to optimized
 +  instruction decoding.  Based on patch by Demur Rumed.
 +
 +- Issue #26647: Python interpreter now uses 16-bit wordcode instead of bytecode.
 +  Patch by Demur Rumed.
 +
 +- Issue #23275: Allow assigning to an empty target list in round brackets:
 +  () = iterable.
 +
 +Library
 +-------
 +
++- Issue #21776: distutils.upload now correctly handles HTTPError.
++  Initial patch by Claudiu Popa.
++
 +- Issue #26526: Replace custom parse tree validation in the parser
 +  module with a simple DFA validator.
 +
 +- Issue #27114: Fix SSLContext._load_windows_store_certs fails with
 +  PermissionError
 +
 +- Issue #18383: Avoid creating duplicate filters when using filterwarnings
 +  and simplefilter.  Based on patch by Alex Shkop.
 +
 +- Issue #23026: winreg.QueryValueEx() now return an integer for REG_QWORD type.
 +
 +- Issue #26741: subprocess.Popen destructor now emits a ResourceWarning warning
 +  if the child process is still running.
 +
 +- Issue #27056: Optimize pickle.load() and pickle.loads(), up to 10% faster
 +  to deserialize a lot of small objects.
 +
 +- Issue #21271: New keyword only parameters in reset_mock call.
 +
 +IDLE
 +----
 +
 +- Issue #27117: Make colorizer htest and turtledemo work with dark themes.
 +  Move code for configuring text widget colors to a new function.
 +
 +- Issue #24225: Rename many idlelib/*.py and idle_test/test_*.py files.
 +  Edit files to replace old names with new names when the old name
 +  referred to the module rather than the class it contained.
 +  See the issue and IDLE section in What's New in 3.6 for more.
 +
 +- Issue #26673: When tk reports font size as 0, change to size 10.
 +  Such fonts on Linux prevented the configuration dialog from opening.
 +
 +- Issue #21939: Add test for IDLE's percolator.
 +  Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
 +
 +- Issue #21676: Add test for IDLE's replace dialog.
 +  Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
 +
 +- Issue #18410: Add test for IDLE's search dialog.
 +  Original patch by Westley Martínez.
 +
 +- Issue #21703: Add test for undo delegator.  Patch mostly by
 +  Saimadhav Heblikar .
 +
 +- Issue #27044: Add ConfigDialog.remove_var_callbacks to stop memory leaks.
 +
 +- Issue #23977: Add more asserts to test_delegator.
  
 -Release date: tba
 +Tests
 +-----
 +
 +- Issue #25285: regrtest now uses subprocesses when the -j1 command line option
 +  is used: each test file runs in a fresh child process. Before, the -j1 option
 +  was ignored.
 +
 +- Issue #25285: Tools/buildbot/test.bat script now uses -j1 by default to run
 +  each test file in fresh child process.
 +
 +Windows
 +-------
 +
 +- Issue #27064: The py.exe launcher now defaults to Python 3.
 +  The Windows launcher ``py.exe`` no longer prefers an installed
 +  Python 2 version over Python 3 by default when used interactively.
 +
 +
 +What's New in Python 3.6.0 alpha 1?
 +===================================
 +
 +Release date: 2016-05-16
  
  Core and Builtins
  -----------------