(patch #100762 by Peter Schneider-Kamp, minus the
    indentation changes)

-- added INT_PTR workaround to make it build under VC 5.0

  bill's more complete solution.

- some more spacification...

- ansified, reindentified, spacified, nullified

  Barry Scott).  it appears to solve the problem on NT
  and 2000, but not on Windows 95.

  in other words, it's better than before, but not per-
  fect.  I'll leave the patch open for now.

  strings, instead of the default encoding.
  (see "minidom" thread for discussion, and also patch #100706)

Use PyArg_ParseTuple() to get better error messages.
Add docstrings all around.

Fix some incorrect module names

Converted to PyArg_ParseTuple() with method names to get better error
messages.

Convert to four-space indents.

Clarify some of the details of readline-related configuration.

Convert to using PyArg_ParseTuple() as appropriate to allow method names
in error messages.
Re-indent to four-space indentation.

hackery (/**/), leaving only new-style preprocessor hackery (##).

This was a convenient excuse to create the pyport.h file recently
discussed!
Please use new Py_ARITHMETIC_RIGHT_SHIFT when right-shifting a
signed int and you *need* sign-extension.  This is #define'd in
pyport.h, keying off new config symbol SIGNED_RIGHT_SHIFT_ZERO_FILLS.
If you're running on a platform that needs that symbol #define'd,
the std tests never would have worked for you (in particular,
at least test_long would have failed).
The autoconfig stuff got added to Python after my Unix days, so
I don't know how that works.  Would someone please look into doing
& testing an auto-config of the SIGNED_RIGHT_SHIFT_ZERO_FILLS
symbol?  It needs to be defined if & only if, e.g., (-1) >> 3 is
not -1.

contains 16 bits.  Not true on Cray J90.

Stein -- thanks!).  Incidentally removed all the Py_PROTO macros
from object.h, as they prevented my editor from magically finding
the definitions of the "coercion", "cmpfunc" and "reprfunc"
typedefs that were being redundantly applied in longobject.c.

convert semicolons to newlines

Allow -f* parameters to be passed to the compiler from Setup files.

rid of Py_PROTO, switched to ANSI function decls, and did some
minor fiddling.

extra ' ').

Patch by T. Wouters.

This adds support for instance to the constructor (instances
have to define __str__ and can return Unicode objects via that
hook; string return values are decoded into Unicode using the
current default encoding).