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Jason, as I already mentioned in my other reply, exposing tzset() to Python would cause more trouble than do any 
good because of the side-effects it has.

Rather then provide ways to write buggy code in Python, I suggest to look into solving the problem you seem to 
have using the available tools, e.g. mxDateTime runs on many different platforms and integrates nicely with 
Python.

If the email package is the only one you need fixed, I suggest to write a small helper or patch which implements 
the needed modifications for this package. BTW, what are you exact requirements ?