[issue19730] Clinic fixes: add converters with length, version directive

[Larry Hastings]

New submission from Larry Hastings:

Two minor changes for Argument Clinic.

* Added a "version" directive, so a programmer can require a
  specific version (or better) of Clinic.

* Finished off support for all the 'legacy' converters.  The ones today
  were those that give off a "length" parameter.  This was complicated
  by finally dealing properly with the Py_buffer conversion stuff.

To properly handle length parameters, I had to support PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN being turned off (when are we gonna throw that away?).  So I added a new type to pyports.h, Py_ssize_clean_t, which is either an int or a Py_ssize_t depending on PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN.

I've run out of gas and am going to bed.  I know I have two TODO items in the diff so far; I'll deal with those tomorrow.  But can I get a quick review of the rest, so I can get this in tomorrow?

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assignee: larry
components: Build
files: larry.misc.clinic.fixes.diff.1.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 203958
nosy: brett.cannon, larry, ncoghlan, pitrou
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: patch review
status: open
title: Clinic fixes: add converters with length, version directive
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.4
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file32790/larry.misc.clinic.fixes.diff.1.patch

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