This patch turns the Python API mismatch notice into a standard
Python warning which can be catched by means of the Python warning
framework.

It also adds two new APIs which hopefully make it easier for Python
to switch to buffer overflow safe [v]snprintf() APIs for error
reporting et al. The two new APIs are PyOS_snprintf() and
PyOS_vsnprintf() and work just like the standard ones in many
C libs. On platforms which have snprintf(), the native APIs are used,
on all other an emulation with snprintf() tries to do its best.
diff --git a/Python/modsupport.c b/Python/modsupport.c
index 0868589..eb0818c 100644
--- a/Python/modsupport.c
+++ b/Python/modsupport.c
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@
 */
 
 static char api_version_warning[] =
-"WARNING: Python C API version mismatch for module %s:\n\
-  This Python has API version %d, module %s has version %d.\n";
+"Python C API version mismatch for module %.100s:\
+ This Python has API version %d, module %.100s has version %d.";
 
 PyObject *
 Py_InitModule4(char *name, PyMethodDef *methods, char *doc,
@@ -37,9 +37,15 @@
 	PyMethodDef *ml;
 	if (!Py_IsInitialized())
 	    Py_FatalError("Interpreter not initialized (version mismatch?)");
-	if (module_api_version != PYTHON_API_VERSION)
-		fprintf(stderr, api_version_warning,
-			name, PYTHON_API_VERSION, name, module_api_version);
+	if (module_api_version != PYTHON_API_VERSION) {
+		char message[512];
+		PyOS_snprintf(message, sizeof(message), 
+			      api_version_warning, name, 
+			      PYTHON_API_VERSION, name, 
+			      module_api_version);
+		if (PyErr_Warn(PyExc_RuntimeWarning, message)) 
+			return NULL;
+	}
 	if (_Py_PackageContext != NULL) {
 		char *p = strrchr(_Py_PackageContext, '.');
 		if (p != NULL && strcmp(name, p+1) == 0) {
diff --git a/Python/mysnprintf.c b/Python/mysnprintf.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e6c3fce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Python/mysnprintf.c
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+
+#include "Python.h"
+
+/* snprintf() emulation for platforms which don't have it (yet). 
+   
+   Return value
+
+       The number of characters printed (not including the trailing
+       `\0' used to end output to strings) or a negative number in
+       case of an error.
+
+       PyOS_snprintf and PyOS_vsnprintf do not write more than size
+       bytes (including the trailing '\0').
+
+       If the output would have been truncated, they return the number
+       of characters (excluding the trailing '\0') which would have
+       been written to the final string if enough space had been
+       available. This is inline with the C99 standard.
+
+*/
+
+#include <ctype.h>
+
+#ifndef HAVE_SNPRINTF
+
+static
+int myvsnprintf(char *str, size_t size, const char  *format, va_list va)
+{
+    char *buffer = PyMem_Malloc(size + 512);
+    int len;
+    
+    if (buffer == NULL)
+	return -1;
+    len = vsprintf(buffer, format, va);
+    if (len < 0) {
+	PyMem_Free(buffer);
+	return len;
+    }
+    len++;
+    if (len > size + 512)
+	Py_FatalError("Buffer overflow in PyOS_snprintf/PyOS_vsnprintf");
+    if (len > size) {
+	PyMem_Free(buffer);
+	return len - 1;
+    }
+    memcpy(str, buffer, len);
+    PyMem_Free(buffer);
+    return len - 1;
+}
+
+int PyOS_snprintf(char *str, size_t size, const  char  *format, ...)
+{
+    int rc;
+    va_list va;
+
+    va_start(va, format);
+    rc = myvsnprintf(str, size, format, va);
+    va_end(va);
+    return rc;
+}
+
+int PyOS_vsnprintf(char *str, size_t size, const char  *format, va_list va)
+{
+    return myvsnprintf(str, size, format, va);
+}
+
+#else
+
+/* Make sure that a C API is included in the lib */
+
+#ifdef PyOS_snprintf
+# undef PyOS_snprintf
+#endif
+
+int PyOS_snprintf(char *str, size_t size, const  char  *format, ...)
+{
+    int rc;
+    va_list va;
+
+    va_start(va, format);
+    rc = vsnprintf(str, size, format, va);
+    va_end(va);
+    return rc;
+}
+
+#ifdef PyOS_vsnprintf
+# undef PyOS_vsnprintf
+#endif
+
+int PyOS_vsnprintf(char *str, size_t size, const char  *format, va_list va)
+{
+    return vsnprintf(str, size, format, va);
+}
+
+#endif
+