I can't test this on the snake farm (no aix box is working).
This change works for the submitter seems correct.
Can anybody test this on 32- and 64- bit AIX?

These built-in functions are replaced by their (now callable) type:

    slice()
    buffer()

and these types can also be called (but have no built-in named
function named after them)

    classobj (type name used to be "class")
    code
    function
    instance
    instancemethod (type name used to be "instance method")

The module "new" has been replaced with a small backward compatibility
placeholder in Python.

A large portion of the patch simply removes the new module from
various platform-specific build recipes.  The following binary Mac
project files still have references to it:

    Mac/Build/PythonCore.mcp
    Mac/Build/PythonStandSmall.mcp
    Mac/Build/PythonStandalone.mcp

[I've tweaked the code layout and the doc strings here and there, and
added a comment to types.py about StringTypes vs. basestring.  --Guido]

overrun avoidance.

This should match the situation in the 1.6b1 tree.

declarations yet, those come later.

comments, docstrings or error messages. I fixed two minor things in
test_winreg.py ("didn't" -> "Didn't" and "Didnt" -> "Didn't").

There is a minor style issue involved: Guido seems to have preferred English
grammar (behaviour, honour) in a couple places. This patch changes that to
American, which is the more prominent style in the source. I prefer English
myself, so if English is preferred, I'd be happy to supply a patch myself ;)

* in import.c, #ifdef out references to dynamic loading based on
  HAVE_DYNAMIC_LOADING

* clean out the platform-specific crud from importdl.c.
  [ maybe fold this function into import.c and drop the importdl.c file? Greg.]

* change GetDynLoadFunc's "funcname" parameter to "shortname". change
  "name" to "fqname" for clarification.

* each GetDynLoadFunc now creates its own funcname value.

  WARNING: as I mentioned previously, we may run into an issue with a
  missing "_" on some platforms. Testing will show this pretty quickly,
  however.

* move pathname munging into dynload_shlib.c

Here's a patch that avoids a warning caused by the "const char* pathname"
declaration for _PyImport_GetDynLoadFunc (in dynload_aix). The "aix_load"
function's 1st arg is prototyped as "char *pathname".

file per platform (really: per style of Dl API; e.g. all platforms
using dlopen() are grouped together in dynload_shlib.c.).

This is part of a set of patches by Greg Stein.