Thanks for your report and patch. I’m editing the versions field: New features and bug fixes go to the active branch, py3k (future 3.2), while only security and documentation fixes are allowed to go in stable branches (2.6 and 3.1). Current trunk (2.7) is frozen, since it’s in release candidate stage; if your bug is fixed in py3k really soon, we’ll ask the release manager Benjamin Peterson if he agrees to let it into 2.7. Thanks again!