cf. #1191.
Only TiffImagePlugin and OLEFileIO still rely on (their own) DEBUG flag.
I left TiffImagePlugin as it is because I hope #1059 gets merged in
first, and OLEFileIO because it uses its own logic.
Untested, as usual.
This is, I guess, a few things the Python devs were just fed up with.
* "while 1" is now "while True"
* Types are compared with isinstance instead of ==
* Sort a list in one go with sorted()
My own twist is to also replace type('') with str, type(()) with tuple,
type([]) with list, type(1) with int, and type(5000.0) with float.
