Neil Hodgson: I think it is unlikely that such a large patch and resulting C++ compatibility policy will be accepted.
Paul Svensson:
The Pythin sorces are written in C; that they fail to compile when usung a compiler for a different language is a feature, not a bug.
of course :-) however, most of the changes are good coding practice in any case. the rest are outright inconsistencies in the python source and ought to be fixed - for instance, the macros 'PyMODINIT_FUNC' and 'staticforward' are *not* used with consistency in all, the patch is merely one-liner style changes, and nothing more. The patch is not large. on a philosophical note, one could have said that the Python sources were POSIX, and: "the fact that they fail to compile when using a different OS is a feature not a bug." yet today Python compiles on a wide range of OS's -paul