Reviewers: Amaury, Antoine, Benjamin

the __long__ slot is allowed to return either int or long, but the behaviour of
float objects should not change between 2.5 and 2.6.

Reviewed by Benjamin Peterson

WarningsRecorder object. This makes the API simpler to use as no special object
must be learned.

Closes issue 3781.
Review by Benjamin Peterson.

Reviewed by Benjamin Peterson.

Reviewed by Benjamin Peterson.

use the TARGETDIR even for unprivileged users.

function.  Tests added.

  that may be required when linking against readline.  This fixes issues
  with x86_64 builds on some platforms (at least a few Linux flavors as
  well as OpenBSD/amd64).

Reviewed by Benjamin.

Reviewer: Benjamin

Reviewed by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.

clashes with what Python's build target did. Rename the target to 'patchcheck'
to avoid the culture clash.

Closes issue 3758.
Reviewed by Benjamin Peterson.

Reviewed by Benjamin Peterson on IRC.

Closes issue 3776.
Review by Nick Coghlan.

Make it more obvious that warnings.catch_warnings() and its arguments should be considered keyword-only.