Export the COM entry point functions.

Note that there are several conflicting base addresses defined for
other extensions, also not all are listed in dllbase_nt.txt.

are concerned.

Fixes part of #1445210.

This may be causing the debian sparc buildbot to fail.
Print a little message to let the user ^w buildbot know it's still thinking.

We may want to adjust the time period which is currently 5 minutes.

Will backport.

using a C++ compiler. Still lots and lots of errors in the modules built by
setup.py, and a bunch of warnings from g++ in the core.

prepends the exception's module name to non-builtin exceptions, like
the interpreter itself does.

broke a number of doctests. should be discussed before checking in (see
discussion on python-dev).

exception's module name to non-builtin exceptions, like the interpreter
itself does.

bsddb.*open() methods cachesize parameter wouldn't work (raised an
internal bsddb.db exception when it was given).  The set_cachesize
call needed to be moved from the DB object to the DBEnv since the env
was introduced to allow for threading.

(will backport to 2.4)

Using None for a filename with the 'n' flag when calling bsddb.btopen
would cause an error while checking if the file None existed.  error
not likely to be seen as anyone using None for a filename would likely
use the 'c' flag in the first place.

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=532154&aid=1467852&group_id=71702

pointer dereferences.

Mention ASCII as default encoding; update TODO list; use PyCF_ONLY_AST by MvL's suggestion; typographical tidying of MvL's name

in dicts and sets when computing the total number of references.