To speedup Python startup, I propose to reimplement the keyword module in C. Attached patch implements it.

* Remove Lib/keyword.py
* Add Tools/scripts/keyword.py: script to build Modules/keyword.h
* The new module is Modules/keyword.c

I chose to change the keyword.kwlist type from list to tuple. The documentation only says they that kwlist is a "Sequence":
http://docs.python.org/dev/library/keyword.html#keyword.kwlist

The keyword is now used by the collections module in the implementation of namedtuple.

The keyword module is trivial: it only contains a sequence of strings and a method checking if a string is part of this sequence. It would be simpler to add this to an existing module. I suppose that a new module was added for technical reasons.