Ivan Levkivskyi (3.5 version)

This is a further restoration of backward compatibility, as well as
being correct per the RFCs.

Patch by py.user.

Issue #25221: Fix corrupted result from PyLong_FromLong(0) when Python is compiled with NSMALLPOSINTS = 0.

between 1.0 and 2.0 to 1.

generalizations added in 3.5.

This is required by RFC 1542, so despite the subtle behavior change we
are treating it as a bug.  Patch by Michael Lazar.

This is now an official "protected" API that can be used to write
classes that are duck-type-compatible with Future without subclassing
it.  (For that purpose I also changed isinstance(result, Future) to
check for this attribute instead.)

Hopefully Amber Brown can use this to make Twisted.Deferred compatible
with asyncio.Future.

Tests and docs are TBD.

issue14976.

This is buggy in the old email code as well, but it doesn't affect anything
there because only the default line length is ever used there.