RFC: fixes python3.10 build of python module - changes to string length in arg parsing #95
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https://python.readthedocs.io/en/stable/c-api/arg.html#strings-and-buffers
https://bugs.python.org/issue36381
Recent changes to this made python3.10 build of the python module always fail with non-descriptive error (due to error masking in the argument parsing in ServerProxy constructor).
I'd love to version-guard these changes but for the love of me can't find the version which introduced Py_ssize_t as the valid type to use in these situations. So making this a RFC...