using the new attributes `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION`, `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO`
and `ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER`.

On slower Windows machines, waiting 0.1 seconds can sometimes not be
enough for a subprocess to start and be ready to accept signals, causing
the test to fail. One buildbot is also choking on input()/EOFError so
that was changed to not depend on input.

This fixes a test_decimal failure on FreeBSD 8.0.  (modf apparently
doesn't follow C99 Annex F on FreeBSD.)

widths.  Patch by Dave Malcolm.

srcdir != builddir.

Without this patch it is no longer possible to
build python when you don't run configure from
the root of the source tree.

and FreeBSD.  Patch by Dave Malcolm.

Also add an example of constructing a Decimal directly from a float,
update the quickstart tutorial, and tweak another couple of
sentences.

Adopt PEP 8 compliant function name.
Factor-out existing uses cmp_to_key.
Update documentation to use internal pointers instead of external resource.

and improve test coverage.  Thanks Meador Inge for the patch.