binary file, use 'rb'!

[ 1232517 ] OverflowError in time.utime() causes strange traceback

A needed error check was missing.

(Actually, this error check may only have become necessary in fairly
recent Python, not sure).

Backport candidate.

they are now _self, _args and _kwds.

and Py_BuildValue.

more in line with other methods "self" and "args" had to be renamed "_self"
and "_args". Did "_kwds" too, for consistency.

Bug [ 1204734 ] incorrect description of __getattribute__

each variable) before calling Py_BuildValue and PyArg_Parse.

bridge to combine declaration and assignment to the return value
temporary, allowing us to handle functions returning const values.

		float y = x;

when x is a double.  Go figure.

Hex longs now print with lowercase letters like their int counterparts.

and conditional generation of objects and methods.

* Note that dict works with the "in" keyword.

platform

  though this can be missing in embedded interpreters