(Thanks for the info, Tim!)

useful explanations.

DOM recommendation.

since the API documentation will state specifically that the specializations
must be used by the DOM implementations.

a prime size, which is in fact never true anymore ...).

Use != instead of <> since <> is documented as "obsolescent".
Use "is" and "is not" when comparing with None or type objects.

can't be imported.  This makes StringIO.py work with Jython.

Also, get rid of the string module by converting to string methods.

Shorten some lines by using augmented assignment where appropriate.

Use != instead of <> since <> is documented as "obsolescent".
Use "is" and "is not" when comparing with None or type objects.

2.1.3) finally agree on when the epoch is, so the code to convert
epochs has been disabled.

windows, but not on the mac. Fixed.

Pascal-strings. Safer, because Pstring converts in-place and the
pathname may be reused later for error messages.

happens because the scanner ignores preprocessor #ifs).

Py_FatalError on errors.

Allow /* */ comments within function prototypes.

Use new multi-input-file feature of bgen in stead of @-file hack to parse multiple header files. A side effect is that the ObjectSupportLib routines are now also available in Python.