The old method only worked out of the box if you were running Python
2.1 on a 586. I imagine that is too small a slice of current users to
be worth hard coding ;).
line-lengths for 80-character wide terminals. Most of the updated text
supplied by W. Trevor King. Ian Abbott added a note that it only applies
when building the wrappers separately from Comedilib without 'make'.
Add "comedi_python.i" swig interface file which merely %includes the
"comedi.i" in the parent directory. Fix paths in "setup.py" and set it up
to run swig directly (using "comedi_python.i" as the source). Change
"_comedi.py" to "comedi.py" (but keep the underscore prefix on the .so
and .la files).
Based on a patch by W. Trevor King.