- Reenable modules on x64 that had been disabled aeons ago for Itanium.
- Cleared up confusion about compilers for 64 bit windows.  There is only Itanium and x64.  Added macros MS_WINI64 and MS_WINX64 for those rare cases where it matters, such as the disabling of modules above.
- Set target platform (_WIN32_WINNT and WINVER) to 0x0501 (XP) for x64, and 0x0400 (NT 4.0) otherwise, which are the targeted minimum platforms.
- Fixed thread_nt.h.  The emulated InterlockedCompareExchange function didn´t work on x64, probaby due to the lack of a "volatile" specifier.  Anyway, win95 is no longer a target platform.
- Itertools module used wrong constant to check for overflow in count()
- PyInt_AsSsize_t couldn't deal with attribute error when accessing the __long__ member.
- PyLong_FromSsize_t() incorrectly specified that the operand were unsigned.

With these changes, the x64 passes the testsuite, for those modules present.

Note that this has only been tested for VS 2003 since that's all I have.

Renames functional extension module to _functools and adds a Python
functools module so that utility functions like update_wrapper can be
added easily.

`struct` module changes).

Cleanup Python-ast.c generation.

Combined efforts of many including Peter Harris, Hye-Shik Chang,
Martin v. Löwis, Nick Coghlan, Paul Moore, and Raymond Hettinger.

of this should be on non-WIN32 Windows variants.

for it soon.

14 input files needed to run all of them).

* Mark the C version as private and only use when available.

* Add unittests, newsitem, and whatsnew
* Apply to Queue.py mutex.py threading.py pydoc.py and shlex.py
* Docs are forthcoming

(Contributed by Dmitry Vasiliev.)

- new import hooks in import.c, exposed in the sys module
- new module called 'zipimport'
- various changes to allow bootstrapping from zip files

I hope I didn't break the Windows build (or anything else for that
matter), but then again, it's been sitting on sf long enough...

Regarding the latest discussions on python-dev: zipimport sets
pkg.__path__ as specified in PEP 273, and likewise, sys.path item such as
/path/to/Archive.zip/subdir/ are supported again.

into the core DLL, since it's not much code and lots of stuff uses
it (e.g., try getting a tempfile name without it).

+ I'm not sure what to do about configure.in.  Left it alone.

+ Ditto pyexpat.c.  Fred or Martin will know what to do.

the Windowish builds.

Still broken:  GETTIMEOFDAY.  This macro obviously isn't being defined
on Windows, so there's logic errors here I'd rather Fred untangled.

    Wasn't built on Windows; not in config.c either.
    Module init function missing DL_EXPORT magic.
    test_xreadline output file obviously wrong (started w/ "test_xrl").
    test program very unclear about what was expected.

(I had explicitly disabled it a while ago, possibly unecessarily, along with
rgbimg, audioop, and imageop, which are advertised as "not for 64-bit
platforms.)

This should match the situation in the 1.6b1 tree.

char**) and return an int even on PC platforms. If not, please fix
PC/utils/makesrc.c ;-P

sys.builtin_module_names.  (Noticed by Toby Dickenson.)

[Tim, please test!]