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interfaces: add the optional `bdiff.xdiffblocks()` method

PyCharm flagged where this was called on the protocol class in `mdiff.py` in the
previous commit, but pytype completely missed it.  PyCharm is correct here, but
I'm committing this separately to highlight this potential problem- some of the
implementations don't implement _all_ of the methods the others do, and there's
not a great way to indicate on a protocol class that a method or attribute is
optional- that's kinda the opposite of what static typing is about.

Making the method an `Optional[Callable]` attribute works here, and keeps both
PyCharm and pytype happy, and the generated `mdiff.pyi` and `modules.pyi` look
reasonable.  We might be getting a little lucky, because the method isn't
invoked directly- it is returned from another method that selects which block
function to use.  Except since it is declared on the protocol class, every
module needs this attribute (in theory, but in practice this doesn't seem to be
checked), so the check for it on the module has to change from `hasattr()` to
`getattr(..., None)`.  We defer defining the optional attrs to the type checking
phase as an extra precaution- that way it isn't an attr with a `None` value at
runtime if someone is still using `hasattr()`.

As to why pytype missed this, I have no clue.  The generated `mdiff.pyi` even
has the global variable typed as `bdiff: intmod.BDiff`, so uses of it really
should comply with what is on the class, protocol class or not.

[This file is here for historical purposes, all recent contributors
should appear in the changelog directly]

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea at suse.de>
Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de>
Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack at libero.it>
Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix at mulix.org>
Mikael Berthe <mikael at lilotux.net>
Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com>
Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com>
Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml at free.fr>
Jake Edge <jake at edge2.net>
Michael Fetterman <michael.fetterman at intel.com>
Edouard Gomez <ed.gomez at free.fr>
Eric Hopper <hopper at omnifarious.org>
Alecs King <alecsk at gmail.com>
Volker Kleinfeld <Volker.Kleinfeld at gmx.de>
Vadim Lebedev <vadim at mbdsys.com>
Christopher Li <hg at chrisli.org>
Chris Mason <mason at suse.com>
Colin McMillen <mcmillen at cs.cmu.edu>
Wojciech Milkowski <wmilkowski at interia.pl>
Chad Netzer <chad.netzer at gmail.com>
Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>
Vicent Seguí Pascual <vseguip at gmail.com>
Sean Perry <shaleh at speakeasy.net>
Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh at gmail.com>
Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.freenix.fr>
Alexander Schremmer <alex at alexanderweb.de>
Arun Sharma <arun at sharma-home.net>
Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jeffpc at optonline.net>
Kevin Smith <yarcs at qualitycode.com>
TK Soh <teekaysoh at yahoo.com>
Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm at gorzow.mm.pl>
Samuel Tardieu <sam at rfc1149.net>
K Thananchayan <thananck at yahoo.com>
Andrew Thompson <andrewkt at aktzero.com>
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il>
Rafael Villar Burke <pachi at mmn-arquitectos.com>
Tristan Wibberley <tristan at wibberley.org>
Mark Williamson <mark.williamson at cl.cam.ac.uk>