originally submitted by Bill Tutt
Note: This code is actually going to be replaced in 2.0 by /F's new
database. Until then, this patch keeps the test suite working.
Perfect hash table generator. Outputs a Python extension module
which provides access to the hash table (which is stored in static
C data) using custom code.
This module can currently only generates code for the ucnhash
module, but can easily be adapted to produce perfect hash tables
for other tasks where fast lookup in large tables is needed.
By Bill Tutt.
Jeremy Hylton
Thomas Wouters
Marc-André Lemburg