by mistake in rev 46693, so reverting this part of
rev 46693.

parameter strings") changed this function's signature
seemingly by mistake, which is causing buildbots to fail
test_bsddb3.  Restored the pre-46688 signature.

Found them using::

  find . -name '*.py' | while read i ; do grep 'def[^(]*( ' $i /dev/null ; done
  find . -name '*.py' | while read i ; do grep ' ):' $i /dev/null ; done

(I was doing this all over my own code anyway, because I'd been using spaces in
all defs, so I thought I'd make a run on the Python code as well.  If you need
to do such fixes in your own code, you can use xx-rename or parenregu.el within
emacs.)

structmember typecode for Py_ssize_t fields.  This should fix some of
the errors on the PPC64 debian machine (64-bit, big endian).

Assigning to readonly fields now raises AttributeError instead of
TypeError, so the testcase has to be changed as well.

exact maximum size someone guesses is needed.  In this case, if
we're really worried about extreme integers, then "cp%d" can
actually need 14 bytes (2 for "cp" + 1 for \0 at the end +
11 for -(2**31-1)).  So reserve 128 bytes instead -- nothing is
actually saved by making a stack-local buffer tiny.

  results.  It could previously incorrectly return 0 in some cases.
  Fixes SF bug 1493322 (pybsddb bug 1184012).

Add 3 more bytes to a buffer to cover constants in string and null byte on top of 10 possible digits for an int.

Closes bug #1501223.

string_reverse():  Simplify.

assertRaises():  Raise TestFailed on failure.

test_unpack_from(), test_pack_into(), test_pack_into_fn():  never
use `assert` to test for an expected result (it doesn't test anything
when Python is run with -O).

    supplied [SF pybsddb bug #1477863]

argument.  A lot of hair went into supporting that!

decoder.  (found by Neal Norwitz)

Move the long-winded, multiply-nested -R support out
of runtest() and into some module-level helper functions.
This makes runtest() and the -R code easier to follow.
That in turn allowed seeing some opportunities for code
simplification, and made it obvious that reglog.txt
never got closed.

fix the additional rare (out of memory only) bug that it was supposed to fix
of not freeing log_list when the python allocator failed.

in BerkeleyDB >= 4.2 it tried to construct a list out of an uninitialized
char **log_list.

feature: export the DB_ARCH_REMOVE flag by name in the module on BerkeleyDB >= 4.2.

46640 Patch #1454481:  Make thread stack size runtime tunable.
46647 Markup fix

The first is causing many buildbots to fail test runs, and there
are multiple causes with seemingly no immediate prospects for
repairing them.  See python-dev discussion.

Note that a branch can (and should) be created for resolving these
problems, like

svn copy svn+ssh://svn.python.org/python/trunk -r46640 svn+ssh://svn.python.org/python/branches/NEW_BRANCH

followed by merging rev 46647 to the new branch.

(thanks to Neal for review)