Several changes... Guido *please* take a look!

1. Renamed

2. Several coding styles were being used here, owing to the multiple
   contributors.  I tried to convert everything to standard "python"
   coding style for indentation, paren and brace placement, etc.

3. There were several potential error conditions that were never being
   checked, and where I saw them, I added checks of return values,
   etc.  I'm pretty sure I got them all.

4. There were some old-style (pre PyArg_ParseTuple) argument
   extraction and these were converted to use PyArg_ParseTuple.

All changes compile and run with the new test_select.py module, at
least on my Solaris/Sparc box.