> Since I am changing of job, I won't be working on AIX anymore (yeah!);

You seem happy about that :)
Does it mean the project to have an AIX buildbot is abandoned?

> I also don't expect this patch to be integrated spontaneously without 
> someone interested in AIX pushing for it. So I leave this patch more as 
> a reference for someone who would be impacted by this problem and would 
> like to integrate it in his own Python. I hope it helps.

Indeed, thanks for your contributions.