Convert to four-space indents.

Clarify some of the details of readline-related configuration.

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

hackery (/**/), leaving only new-style preprocessor hackery (##).

This was a convenient excuse to create the pyport.h file recently
discussed!
Please use new Py_ARITHMETIC_RIGHT_SHIFT when right-shifting a
signed int and you *need* sign-extension.  This is #define'd in
pyport.h, keying off new config symbol SIGNED_RIGHT_SHIFT_ZERO_FILLS.
If you're running on a platform that needs that symbol #define'd,
the std tests never would have worked for you (in particular,
at least test_long would have failed).
The autoconfig stuff got added to Python after my Unix days, so
I don't know how that works.  Would someone please look into doing
& testing an auto-config of the SIGNED_RIGHT_SHIFT_ZERO_FILLS
symbol?  It needs to be defined if & only if, e.g., (-1) >> 3 is
not -1.

contains 16 bits.  Not true on Cray J90.

Stein -- thanks!).  Incidentally removed all the Py_PROTO macros
from object.h, as they prevented my editor from magically finding
the definitions of the "coercion", "cmpfunc" and "reprfunc"
typedefs that were being redundantly applied in longobject.c.

convert semicolons to newlines

Allow -f* parameters to be passed to the compiler from Setup files.

rid of Py_PROTO, switched to ANSI function decls, and did some
minor fiddling.

extra ' ').

Patch by T. Wouters.

This adds support for instance to the constructor (instances
have to define __str__ and can return Unicode objects via that
hook; string return values are decoded into Unicode using the
current default encoding).

objects including instance objects.

The old API PyUnicode_FromObject() is still available as shortcut.

So many things have changed over the last few weeks that it's probably a good idea to check the project files in again.

Changed all (hopefully) uses of unsigned 16 bit value to use H format specifier, now that h is signed-only.

corrected some usage of 'unsigned long' where Py_UNICODE
should have been used.

Lundh as response to bug reports on True64 and IRIX.

true after revision 2.36 was checked in...

at least 32 bits as opposed to Py_UNICODE which rely on having
16 bits).

Web browser as a help/information browser easy across platforms.

should have been used.

In posixmodule.c:posix_fork, the function PyOS_AfterFork is called for
both the parent and the child, despite the docs stating that it should
be called in the new (child) process.

This causes problems in the parent since the forking thread becomes the
main thread according to the signal module.

Calling PyOS_AfterFork() only in the child fixes this.  Changed for both
fork() and forkpty().

& extensions, so create exceptions in extension modules using the
PyErr_NewException() API.