platform-specific overrides of functions and class methods (expanding on imputils demo code)

[lkcl]

On Aug 21, 12:58 am, a... at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
> In article <77715735-2668-43e7-95da-c91d175b3... at z31g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
>
> lkcl  <luke.leigh... at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> >if somebody would like to add this to the python bugtracker, as a
> >contribution, that would be great.  alternatively, you might like to
> >have a word with the python developers to get them to remove the
> >censorship on my contributions.
>
> Excuse me?  What censorship?

 i was ordered to cease contributing to python.  the cause was the
provision of a port of python to run under mingw32, which passed all
but eight of the regression tests.

 l.