Back out part of rev. 1.53, restoring the use of the string module. The two long lines have been reflowed differently; hopefully someone on BeOS can test them.  Rev. 1.53 also converted string.atoi() to int(); I've left that alone.
Back out part of rev. 1.53, restoring the use of the string module.
The two long lines have been reflowed differently; hopefully someone on
BeOS can test them.  Rev. 1.53 also converted string.atoi() to int(); I've
left that alone.

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