Antoine, I need your help :-)

http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/x86 Gentoo Non-Debug
3.x/builds/4311/steps/test/logs/stdio
"""
======================================================================
ERROR: testLinuxAbstractNamespace (test.test_socket.TestLinuxAbstractNamespace)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/lib/buildslave/3.x.murray-gentoo-wide/build/Lib/test/test_socket.py",
line 4456, in testLinuxAbstractNamespace
    s1.bind(address)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xff' in
position 19: ordinal not in range(128)
"""

I don't know jack s*** about encoding, but from what I understand, the
problem is that the test is passing an invalid ordinal, now that test
is passing a string. Should I revert this part of the test (i.e. make
the passed address a bytes again)?