Run this command across the source:
perl -pi.bak -e 's/(20[012][0-9])-20[12][012]/$1-2023/g' `git ls-files`
and remove changes to po{,-docs}/*.po{,t} (these will be regenerated
later when we run 'make dist').
Python 2 reached end of life on 2020-01-01:
https://python3statement.org/https://pythonclock.org/
The minimum version required is now Python 3.4 (since that is the
version in Debian oldoldstable), but 3.6 is the minimum version that
I actually test.
This symbol is not present in Python 2.7 or 3.6. It's not really
necessary to call this, it just avoids a crash in certain corner cases
when the interpreter is shutting down. So make the call conditional
on the function existing.
Fixes commit e6f9e0b0f6.
The PyString API is specific to Python < 3, replaced by PyBytes and
PyUnicode in Python 3+; hence, drop the compile time check, and use the
right API depending on the Python version.
Python 3.8 no longer links C extensions to -lpython, instead relying
on the fact that the python binary itself already contains those
symbols. This means $PYTHON_LIBS is empty and so the Python bindings
are not built.
Use a different test to see if the python module is available.
