Backport 3.0 struct module changes to 2.6

[teoliphant]

BPO	2397
Nosy	@mdickinson, @devdanzin

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closed_at = <Date 2010-06-14.14:24:45.849>
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labels = ['type-feature', 'library']
title = 'Backport 3.0 struct module changes to 2.6'
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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue2397'
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[teoliphant]

The changes to the struct module in PEP-3118 should be backported to 2.6
as it is backward compatible and would smooth the transition to 3.0. It
is lower priority and could wait until 2.7

[devdanzin]

This risks missing 2.x if nobody adopts the implementation of PEP-3118
in 3.x: 2.7 might be the last 2.x release.

[mdickinson]

It's too late to backport any new features to 2.x.