[issue5880] Remove unneeded "context" pointer from getters and setters

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:

I've removed those gratuitous context uses in Objects/longobject.c
in r72202 (trunk) and r72203 (py3k).

I'm not sure it's a good idea to remove the context field completely.  
Apart from the compatibility issues that Antoine pointed out, it
doesn't seem improbable that some getters and setters might need it.

A Google code search for PyGetSetDef turned up at least one non-null
use of the context field (in something called pyephem).  I didn't
look at it closely, though.

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