mmap obmalloc arenas so that they may be immediately returned to the system when unused (closes #20494)

The '**' operator is available only since 8.5 and in any case such large
integers are not supported on Tcl <8.5.

Issue #20426: When passing the re.DEBUG flag, re.compile() displays the debug output every time it is called, regardless of the compilation cache.

unicode strings only).  Improved error handling in variables-related commands.

exprlong() and exprboolean().

from the old green snake to the new new blue and yellow snakes.

introduced with the issue19081 tests.

Py_VerboseFlag print that can never be triggered.

prefix[0] is always equal to 0 at this point in the code.

test_ns dict instead of the actual globals() and locals().  Suggested
after review by Thomas Wouters.

is present.

caches are module global in the zip_directory_cache. When it is
updated due to a changed zip file, all zipimporter instances need to
see the same updates TOC cache.  This fixes the bug for the overlooked
submodule import case from the earlier round of changes.  Includes
tests that would fail otherwise.

It also refactors zipimporter_init in the process to make it a bit
easier to read and understand.  Less reuse of the same variable for
multiple purposes and the local path buffer is malloc'ed instead
of consuming a large MAXPATHLEN+2 chunk stack space.

make it actually gives some help when clicked. Patch by Guilherme Simões.

removed even for bound methods. (Inspect.signature does, see 20401.)

Original patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

Based on patch by Claudiu Popa.

codecs.StreamReader returned incomplete data when were called after
readline() or read(size).  Based on patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.