for blacklisting them.

reason they were blacklisted, we can handle them as generic Handles.

reason they were excluded.

late...

values would overwrite the next value.

Also moved %c and %Z out of there, even though they are standard,
because these are locale dependent (and e.g. on Windows and Mac they
return different strings).  Finally, sorted the tables slightly
different, to match my standard docs better (%a before %A).

 -- initialize length to DEFAULTALLOC and not 0
 -- resize string before returning (to remove '\000' padding)

Also converted some compression routines to use PyString instead of
buffer.

ExitThread().  As discussed in c.l.p, this takes care of
initialization and finalization of thread-local storage allocated by
the C runtime system.  Not sure whether non-MS compilers grok this
though (but who cares :-).

__import__() hook is currently installed.

usable createfilehandler).  Define HAVE_CREATEFILEHANDLER to test
later.  Also other Mac specific patches by Jack.