> Regardless of the smiley, I certainly wouldn't object if you
> requested permissions on python-dev...

I still don't have an account and the issue is still open. 2.6(.1) and 
3.0 are released. The patch has been reviewed by amaury.forgeotdarc, 
so can the patch be applied?

The issue is still valid with python trunk:

$ ./python
Python 2.7a0 (trunk:67710M, Dec 11 2008, 23:57:18)
[GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)] on linux2
>>> import _hotshot, gc
>>> _hotshot.logreader(".")
<_hotshot.LogReaderType object at 0xb7d936e0>
>>> gc.collect()
Exception EOFError: 'end of file with incomplete profile record' 
in 'garbage collection' ignored
Fatal Python error: unexpected exception during garbage collection
Abandon (core dumped)