Thank you, that fixes that issue.  But further along the build fails:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File
"/usr/src/ports/python/python3.0/python3.0-3.0b3-1/src/Python-3.0b3/setup.py",
line 1569, in <module>
    class PyBuildInstallLib(install_lib):
  File
"/usr/src/ports/python/python3.0/python3.0-3.0b3-1/src/Python-3.0b3/setup.py",
line 1575, in PyBuildInstallLib
    so_ext = sysconfig.get_config_var("SO")
  File
"/usr/src/ports/python/python3.0/python3.0-3.0b3-1/src/Python-3.0b3/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py",
line 552, in get_config_var
    return get_config_vars().get(name)
  File
"/usr/src/ports/python/python3.0/python3.0-3.0b3-1/src/Python-3.0b3/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py",
line 491, in get_config_vars
    func()
  File
"/usr/src/ports/python/python3.0/python3.0-3.0b3-1/src/Python-3.0b3/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py",
line 360, in _init_posix
    parse_makefile(filename, g)
  File
"/usr/src/ports/python/python3.0/python3.0-3.0b3-1/src/Python-3.0b3/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py",
line 272, in parse_makefile
    line = fp.readline()
  File
"/usr/src/ports/python/python3.0/python3.0-3.0b3-1/src/Python-3.0b3/Lib/distutils/text_file.py",
line 173, in readline
    line = self.file.readline()
  File
"/usr/src/ports/python/python3.0/python3.0-3.0b3-1/src/Python-3.0b3/Lib/io.py",
line 1751, in readline
    decoder = self._decoder or self._get_decoder()
  File
"/usr/src/ports/python/python3.0/python3.0-3.0b3-1/src/Python-3.0b3/Lib/io.py",
line 1501, in _get_decoder
    make_decoder = codecs.getincrementaldecoder(self._encoding)
  File
"/usr/src/ports/python/python3.0/python3.0-3.0b3-1/src/Python-3.0b3/Lib/codecs.py",
line 960, in getincrementaldecoder
    decoder = lookup(encoding).incrementaldecoder
LookupError: unknown encoding: U
make: *** [sharedmods] Error 1