Add const to several API functions that take char *.

In C++, it's an error to pass a string literal to a char* function
without a const_cast().  Rather than require every C++ extension
module to put a cast around string literals, fix the API to state the
const-ness.

I focused on parts of the API where people usually pass literals:
PyArg_ParseTuple() and friends, Py_BuildValue(), PyMethodDef, the type
slots, etc.  Predictably, there were a large set of functions that
needed to be fixed as a result of these changes.  The most pervasive
change was to make the keyword args list passed to
PyArg_ParseTupleAndKewords() to be a const char *kwlist[].

One cast was required as a result of the changes:  A type object
mallocs the memory for its tp_doc slot and later frees it.
PyTypeObject says that tp_doc is const char *; but if the type was
created by type_new(), we know it is safe to cast to char *.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Python/import.c b/Python/import.c
index fcdc46b..daa8f8d 100644
--- a/Python/import.c
+++ b/Python/import.c
@@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ _PyImport_FindExtension(char *name, char *filename)
    'NEW' REFERENCE! */
 
 PyObject *
-PyImport_AddModule(char *name)
+PyImport_AddModule(const char *name)
 {
 	PyObject *modules = PyImport_GetModuleDict();
 	PyObject *m;
@@ -1875,7 +1875,7 @@ PyImport_ImportFrozenModule(char *name)
    its module object WITH INCREMENTED REFERENCE COUNT */
 
 PyObject *
-PyImport_ImportModule(char *name)
+PyImport_ImportModule(const char *name)
 {
 	PyObject *pname;
 	PyObject *result;