The test fails on 2.6 and 2.7, because of a EPIPE, which is normal in
this case (well, at least expected):
"""
test_partial_post (test.test_xmlrpc.SimpleServerTestCase) ...
----------------------------------------
Exception happened during processing of request from ('127.0.0.1', 47844)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/cf/python/cpython/Lib/SocketServer.py", line 283, in
_handle_request_noblock
    self.process_request(request, client_address)
  File "/home/cf/python/cpython/Lib/SocketServer.py", line 309, in
process_request
    self.finish_request(request, client_address)
  File "/home/cf/python/cpython/Lib/SocketServer.py", line 322, in
finish_request
    self.RequestHandlerClass(request, client_address, self)
  File "/home/cf/python/cpython/Lib/SocketServer.py", line 617, in __init__
    self.handle()
  File "/home/cf/python/cpython/Lib/BaseHTTPServer.py", line 329, in handle
    self.handle_one_request()
  File "/home/cf/python/cpython/Lib/BaseHTTPServer.py", line 323, in
handle_one_request
    method()
  File "/home/cf/python/cpython/Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py", line 490, in do_POST
    self.send_response(200)
  File "/home/cf/python/cpython/Lib/BaseHTTPServer.py", line 384, in
send_response
    self.send_header('Server', self.version_string())
  File "/home/cf/python/cpython/Lib/BaseHTTPServer.py", line 390, in send_header
    self.wfile.write("%s: %s\r\n" % (keyword, value))
  File "/home/cf/python/cpython/Lib/socket.py", line 318, in write
    self.flush()
  File "/home/cf/python/cpython/Lib/socket.py", line 297, in flush
    self._sock.sendall(buffer(data, write_offset, buffer_size))
error: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
"""

What should I do? Remove the test?