as the latter is not available on Windows 2000.

configure time. The current check is too strict and doesn't allow building
extensions that can only run on newer versions of the OS than the version
python was build for, that is python build for 10.3 or later and an extension
for 10.4. This patch relaxes this check.

This turned out to be a reimplementation of patch 1193190.

Remove translated code hidden inside a comment environment; latex2html gets confused and includes half of it anyway

    /path/to/uninstalled/python setup.py build_ext

now failed with pyconfig.h not found.  Prior to r45232
the above command did not look for pyconfig.h, but the
bug is really in the look-up code: expecting to find it
in os.curdir is a rather fragile idea.

Py_ssize_t argument.

them; they have to be passed to make.

    but wait for a few hours before you read it; I'm still revising it
    and will be tackling contextlib next.
Untabify

always reload the module (specifically, it doesn't reload if the module has
a 'test_main'.)

'python.org' when deciding what server to use for the timeout tests; getting
tired of seeing the test fail on all my boxes ;P This'll still allow the
test to fail for hosts in the XS4ALL network that don't have an 'xs4all'
hostname, so maybe it should use a fallback scheme instead.

prevent unreported regression.