#6944: the argument to PyArg_ParseTuple should be a tuple, otherwise a SystemError is set.  Also clean up another usage of PyArg_ParseTuple.

does now always result in NULL.

base class positional arguments.

Make the optparse doc style a bit more standard: use standard description units for attrs/methods/etc., and use the correct referencing roles.

UTF-32 stream with a non-raising error handler like "replace" or "ignore".

Note in the intro to Extending... that ctypes can be a simpler, more portable solution than custom C code.

(up to 3.1 times faster in tests), by special-casing base 10 in
_PyLong_Format.  (Backport of r74851 from py3k.)

This works by always setting it in __dict__, except when it's implicitly set in __init__.

non-Apple gcc4.3 and gcc4.4 (because CoreFoundation/CoreFoundation.h
won't compile under non-Apple gcc).