Fix bug 1441408 where a double colon didn't trigger extended slice semantics (applies patch 1452332)

- cast is implemented as a foreign function now
- On Windows, it is now possible to access functions exported by ordinal only

this time and call gc.collect(), since there is some garbage.

The original code didn't really leak (if gc.collect() was called).

Try to find a host that responds slower from python.org so this test does not fail on macteagle (G4 OSX.4 in buildbot)

in pyport.h.  Changed PyString_FromFormatV() to use it
instead of inlining its own maze of #if'ery.

PyCodec_IncrementalDecoder().

Factor out common code from PyCodec_Encoder()/PyCodec_Decoder(),
PyCodec_IncrementalEncoder()/PyCodec_IncrementalDecoder() and
PyCodec_StreamReader()/PyCodec_StreamWriter().

Hope that fixes one or two Coverty warnings.

helper written by Roger Upole and Mark Hammond) and adjust the expected
PlaySoundTest case results accordingly.

Make mktuple consistent with mklist to get rid of Coverity warnings.  Also use macro version of SetItem since we know everything is setup.

The pre module has been gone for a while.  Need to go through and find other modules that no longer exists, since errors are silently ignored.

stale .pyc files.

This is a heavily altered derivative of SF patch 1123430, Evan
Jones's heroic effort to make obmalloc return unused arenas to
the system free(), with some heuristic strategies to make it
more likley that arenas eventually _can_ be freed.

now if close() has been called before (like file and StringIO.StringIO do)

versions.