Clean-up and speed-up code by accessing numerator/denominator directly.  There's no reason to enforce readonliness

(also remove an unneeded import struct from test_largefile)

I'm not sure this is the correct fix, but at least the test passes
now and should be closer to correct.

Add first-cut at an approximation function (still needs rounding tweaks).  Add continued fraction conversions.

Issue 1743, Issue 1862.

The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.

Fixed bug #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode support.

improve portability of address length calculation for AF_UNIX sockets

users and groups in LDAP/NIS.  So I'm limiting the extra-heavy part of
the tests to passwd/group files with at most 1000 entries.

Added the macros PyModule_AddIntMacro and PyModule_AddStringMacro. They shorten PyModule_AddIntConstant(m, "AF_INET", AF_INET) to PyModule_AddIntMacro(m, AF_INET)

  threading.enumerate() list after the join() for a brief period until
  it actually exited.

storbinary() and storlines() methods.

arguments to Make. This means there are no hyphens. Fix the '-s' check to
silence distutils to now work.

Patch by Angelo Mottola, reviewed by MvL, tests by me.