These patches need to be applied to 2.6 in order that they appear in
2.6.3. (/python/branches/release26-maint, I think). As far as I see this
is urgent because 2.6.3rc1 is only a few days away.

Eventually (or, if you want at the same time) they need to be applied to
2.7. But there are quite a few amendments more that should be backported
from Python 3.1 to Python 2.7. Moreover, we do not know today, which
bugfixes etc. will go into 3.2 and I think 3.2 should be synchronized
with 2.7. Since 2.7 still seems to be pretty far away, we can defer this
for now and do it later together with the complementing pathes. As
already said, it needs to be done eventually, anyhow. 

Regards,
Gregor