Message 119063 - Python tracker

I believe the enhancements here are the same as submitted for py3k in Issue10079.  Since it is likely the same comments will apply to both variants, I think it would be better to have just one issue, so I would recommend regenerating the patch against the current 2.7 svn top of trunk (or the 2.7 release), attaching the patch to #10079, and closing this as a duplicate.