[vbox-dev] Port vboxapi to Python 3

[Ilya Kulakov]

Here is the first patch from the set of patches I?m working on in order to port vboxapi to Python 3.

It addresses various syntax issues, indention issues and introduces some reformatting in order to conform the PEP8 style.
For compatibility with Python 3, I added branching at the very top of the file that adds unified print_ function, xrange and long.

This patch alone should bring Python 3 compatibility to the Windows platform because it does not use PyXPCOM.
Port of PyXPCOM to Python 3 is currently work in progress.

The patch is released under the MIT license.
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[Ilya Kulakov]

Since the last patch I found 2 issues:
- In one place I forgot to replace python2.6+ execpt syntax with python2.3 compatible
- Forgot to replace all that __dict__ magic with python3 compatible setattr/getattr

Updated patch is attached.
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Best regards,
Ilya Kulakov