From: Jason R. Coombs <jaraco@jaraco.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 01:15:04 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Issue #12285: Merge with 3.4
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Issue #12285: Merge with 3.4
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@@@ -50,42 -13,8 +50,44 @@@ Core and Builtin
  Library
  -------
  
+ - Issue #12285: Fix error when distutils encounters symlink.
+ 
 +- Issue #27881: Fixed possible bugs when setting sqlite3.Connection.isolation_level.
 +  Based on patch by Xiang Zhang.
 +
 +- Issue #27861: Fixed a crash in sqlite3.Connection.cursor() when a factory
 +  creates not a cursor.  Patch by Xiang Zhang.
 +
 +- Issue #19884: Avoid spurious output on OS X with Gnu Readline.
 +
 +- Issue #27706: Restore deterministic behavior of random.Random().seed()
 +  for string seeds using seeding version 1.  Allows sequences of calls
 +  to random() to exactly match those obtained in Python 2.
 +  Patch by Nofar Schnider.
 +
 +- Issue #10513: Fix a regression in Connection.commit().  Statements should
 +  not be reset after a commit.
 +
 +- A new version of typing.py from https://github.com/python/typing:
 +  - Collection (only for 3.6) (Issue #27598)
 +  - Add FrozenSet to __all__ (upstream #261)
 +  - fix crash in _get_type_vars() (upstream #259)
 +  - Remove the dict constraint in ForwardRef._eval_type (upstream #252)
 +
 +- Issue #27539: Fix unnormalised ``Fraction.__pow__`` result in the case
 +  of negative exponent and negative base.
 +
 +- Issue #21718: cursor.description is now available for queries using CTEs.
 +
 +- Issue #2466: posixpath.ismount now correctly recognizes mount points which
 +  the user does not have permission to access.
 +
 +- Issue #27773: Correct some memory management errors server_hostname in
 +  _ssl.wrap_socket().
 +
 +- Issue #26750: unittest.mock.create_autospec() now works properly for
 +  subclasses of property() and other data descriptors.
 +
  - In the curses module, raise an error if window.getstr() or window.instr() is
    passed a negative value.