Add a workaround for a strange bug on win64, when _ctypes is compiled
with the SDK compiler.  This should fix the failing
Lib\ctypes\test\test_as_parameter.py test.

ever going back out to Python code in PyObject_Call().  Required introducing a
static RuntimeError instance so that normalizing an exception there is no
reliance on a recursive call that would put the exception system over the
recursion check itself.

implementation of either function depends on ctypes but uuid as a whole does
not.

windows happy.

branch, seems like it ought to be on the trunk as well.

This attack is against ceval.c:IMPORT_NAME, which calls an
object (__builtin__.__import__) without holding a reference to it.

ptrace_enter_call() assumes no exception is currently set.
This assumption is broken when throwing into a generator.

Backport from Py3k: Bug #1684991: explain lookup semantics for __special__ methods (new-style classes only).

a readonly source.

There are probably a number of places that are open to attacks
such as the following one, in bltinmodule.c:min_max().

to get dependencies right.

  to include some information about the build environment.

source encoding. Will backport to 2.5.

get_completion_type to readline.

context. Fixes #1626801.

by the Makefile is also used at configure-time.

empty pattern match. (issue 852532).

Will backport to 2.5.