The thread at:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481569

requests "attention" so I'm formally rejecting it.  :-)

My reading of the python-dev thread on this is that the current patch
does not reasonably fix the problem.  However, I'd like mwh and
anthonybaxters input on this.  What would we need to be able to accept
this patch?  My understanding is that there are some things that the
current patch does not address.  Should I bring it up on python-dev?

The current opinion in the python-dev thread seems to be that the
current solution would go into trunk rather than into a maint branch for
an existing release, so it's not going to be a quick fix in any case.