Thanks, now all the tests pass.
However I had intermittent failures (with a really useful error message)
on test_docxmlrpc:

$ ./python Lib/test/regrtest.py -v test_docxmlrpc
test_docxmlrpc
test_autolink_dotted_methods (test.test_docxmlrpc.DocXMLRPCHTTPGETServer)
Test that selfdot values are made strong automatically in the ... ok
test_autolinking (test.test_docxmlrpc.DocXMLRPCHTTPGETServer)
Test that the server correctly automatically wraps references to PEPS ... ok
test_invalid_get_response (test.test_docxmlrpc.DocXMLRPCHTTPGETServer)
... ok
test_lambda (test.test_docxmlrpc.DocXMLRPCHTTPGETServer)
Test that lambda functionality stays the same.  The output produced ... ok
test_system_methods (test.test_docxmlrpc.DocXMLRPCHTTPGETServer)
Test the precense of three consecutive system.* methods. ... ok
test_valid_get_response (test.test_docxmlrpc.DocXMLRPCHTTPGETServer) ... ok

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Ran 6 tests in 0.392s

OK
1 test OK.
Unhandled exception in thread started by
Error in sys.excepthook:

Original exception was: