Georg - see http://bugs.python.org/issue20621#msg211209 for what I did. That shows backing out did *not* fix the issue. But I did backout on the default branch, and my backout may not have worked as I explained.

I just tried to do hg backout on the 3.3 branch and I got merge errors that I don't know how to fix.

I'm going to try hg checkout -r 88337 (that's the parent of the changeset you quoted) as am alternative approach. It'll take some time to set up the build tools I need. But if there's a better way of backing out as you want me to, let me know and I'll try that.