backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size, and
PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.

Use Py_UnpackTuple instead of PyArg_ParseTuple where possible.

Probably should be backported.

for Py_Main().

Thanks to Kalle Svensson and Skip Montanaro for the patches.

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.

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.

Also changed <>-style #includes to ""-style in some places where the
former didn't make sense.

open_flags which contains the flags supported by gdbm.  Closes patch
#102802.

This should match the situation in the 1.6b1 tree.

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

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.

database is closed.  Raise gdbm.error instead.

Bug report #198 submitted by Barry Haddow <bhaddow@orbism.com>.

on BeOS or Windows.

Also got rid of some inconsistent change log comments near the top.

(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!

GDBM module.

Setup.in: clarified Tk comments somewhat.
structmodule.c: use memcpy() instead of double precision assignment.

struct.