CF,

Pre-built binaries of Python for AIX are available on the Bull Freeware and Perzl sites of Open Source Software for AIX. The "GetIt" page should be updated and the packages can be made available through python.org

Other parts of your reasoning are somewhat circular because most of the problems on AIX are Linux-isms (or BSD-isms where BSD has not yielded to Linux behavior). So you argue against adding lots of AIX-specific code, yet fixing some of the tests more generally will require adding lots of AIX-specific code.

I am trying to focus on features and functionality that will make Python more useful to more AIX users. Hopefully that would grow the Python user base and developer base on AIX and lead to more support for Python on AIX. Fixing every corner case test is more a pedantic argument than something that is useful to the general Python user.

A lot of the Python buildbot testsuite failures are due to a locale issue that has not been my highest priority.