Here is a new version of the patch. I think it addresses all of the issues that have been raised to date.

I had to comment out the -lintl line in Modules/Setup to build on OS X, this seems to be a similar issue to http://bugs.python.org/issue6154 . So I don't have a _locale module, and I also don't have _scproxy. I ran "make test", and get the same results with and without the patch: 315 passes, 22 failed, 15 skipped. All of the failures are due to missing _locale and _scproxy, with the exception of an error during the sax test that is unrelated to my changes.