Before, the type function was called twice in the case where the default
was specified and the argument was given as well.  This was especially
problematic for the FileType type, as a default file would always be
opened, even if a file argument was specified on the command line.

Patch by Arnaud Fontaine, with additional test by Mike Meyer.

Patch by Mike Hoy.

This is done by extending a previous fix for issue #9185 that was made for
Solaris and OpenBSD to NetBSD as well.

Patch by Chris Rebert.

Fix issue 13370: Ensure that ctypes works on Mac OS X when Python is compiled using the clang compiler

Patch by Chris Rebert.

Closes #9374: add back now-unused module attributes; removing them is a backward compatibility issue, since they have a public-seeming name.

(Patch by Ronald Oussoren)

2.7 doesn't support 'a'.  This changeset ports the doc change
and clause-reording portions of Francisco Martín Brugué patch
in order to minimize code base drift.

Patch by Kushal Das.

Patch by Chris Jerdonek.

Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.