Merge pull request #1 from henrykrumb/master

switch from distutils to more recent setuptools

improved formatting

bugfix: segmentation fault in Python 2.7 because of NULL pointer

revert unintended deletion of the file header

adjusted project name

updated documentation

fixed typo

added python 2.2+ as supported host language

added some status messages to example.py

Added support for Python 2.2+

added hint to python 3 (python 2 support is comming later)

added link to example

fixed links

improved introduction