__del__ method when initialization failed.

but that SF patch 1504676 as written mis-handles

- remove some over-zealous triple-quoting

adjacent triples in the result list describe non-adjacent matching
blocks.  That's _nice_ to have, and Guido said he wanted it.

Not a bugfix candidate:  Guido or not ;-), this changes visible
endcase semantics (note that some tests had to change), and
nothing about this was documented before.  Since it was working
as designed, and behavior was consistent with the docs, it wasn't
"a bug".

follow in a few hours at the latest. Then we should be ready for beta1.

arguments in reverse, the interpreter would infinitely recourse trying to get a
coercion that worked.  So put in a recursion check after a coercion is made and
the next call to attempt to use the coerced values.

Fixes bug #992017 and closes crashers/coerce.py .

to pass reliably on the one buildbot that insists on
more than 32kB of thread stack.

See svn.python.org/external/pybench-2.0 for the original import of that
version.

Note that platform.py was not copied over from pybench-2.0 since
it is already part of Python 2.5.

Heavily revised, comprising revisions:
46640 - original trunk revision (backed out in r46655)
46647 - markup fix (backed out in r46655)
46692:46918 merged from branch aimacintyre-sf1454481

branch tested on buildbots (Windows buildbots had problems
not related to these changes).

not an argument.

that return None to indicate that the module is valid but no source is
available. This patch fixes that.

VARIANT_BOOL is a special _ctypes data type, not c_short.

the aliases defined in windows header files for the structures.

more comments about why it's this way at all; and removed what looked
like needless expense (sorting (i, j, k) triples directly should give
exactly the same order as sorting (i, (i, j, k)) pairs).

This module has been tested so far on Windows XP (Python 2.4 and 2.5a2),
Mac OS X (Python 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5a2), and Linux (Python 2.4 and 2.5a2).