command line for Windows builds.  This should allow MSVC to import and
build the Python MSVC6 project files without error.

The staticforward define was needed to support certain broken C
compilers (notably SCO ODT 3.0, perhaps early AIX as well) botched the
static keyword when it was used with a forward declaration of a static
initialized structure.  Standard C allows the forward declaration with
static, and we've decided to stop catering to broken C compilers.  (In
fact, we expect that the compilers are all fixed eight years later.)

I'm leaving staticforward and statichere defined in object.h as
static.  This is only for backwards compatibility with C extensions
that might still use it.

XXX I haven't updated the documentation.

closes SF #514433

can now pass 'None' as the filename for the bsddb.*open functions,
and you'll get an in-memory temporary store.

docs are ripped out of the bsddb dbopen man page. Fred may want to
clean them up.

Considering this for 2.2, but not 2.1.

Please review for correctness.

type.__module__ behavior.

This adds the module name and a dot in front of the type name in every
type object initializer, except for built-in types (and those that
already had this).  Note that it touches lots of Mac modules -- I have
no way to test these but the changes look right.  Apologies if they're
not.  This also touches the weakref docs, which contains a sample type
object initializer.  It also touches the mmap test output, because the
mmap type's repr is included in that output.  It touches object.h to
put the correct description in a comment.

This fixes SF bug #410146 (python 2.1b shelve is broken).

Fixed recno support (keys are integers rather than strings).
Work around DB bug that cause stdin to be closed by rnopen() when the
DB file needed to exist but did not (no longer segfaults).

This closes SF tracker patch #403445.

Also wrapped some long lines and added whitespace around operators -- FLD.

malloc() returning NULL

This should match the situation in the 1.6b1 tree.

Update the build structures to automatically detect the presence of BSD db,
including the proper name of the header file to include.  Has all the
expected niceties associated with yet-more-configure-options.  ;)

This checkin includes changes for non-generated files only; subsequent
checkin will catch those.

This is part of SourceForge patch #101272.

Berkeley DB 2.0 or newer; most Linux distros will include a more recent
version than 1.85.

For more comments, read the patches@python.org archives.
For documentation read the comments in mymalloc.h and objimpl.h.

(This is not exactly what Vladimir posted to the patches list; I've
made a few changes, and Vladimir sent me a fix in private email for a
problem that only occurs in debug mode.  I'm also holding back on his
change to main.c, which seems unnecessary to me.)

PyArg_ParseTuple() format string arguments as possible.

names in the source code (they already had those for the linker,
through some smart macros; but the source still had the old, un-Py names).

on BeOS or Windows.

(1) Use PyErr_NewException("module.class", NULL, NULL) to create the
    exception object.

(2) Remove all calls to Py_FatalError(); instead, return or
    ignore the errors -- the import code now checks PyErr_Occurred()
    after calling a module's init function, so it's no longer a
    fatal error for the initialization to fail.

Also did some small cleanups, e.g. removed unnecessary test for
"already initialized" from initfpectl(), and unified
initposix()/initnt().

I haven't checked this very thoroughly, so while the changes are
pretty trivial -- beware of untested code!

Keep gcc -Wall happy.