Message 143034 - Python tracker

This bug could do with a little less attitude.  That said, I think it is a bug and should be fixed, at the very least for Python 3.3.  As always, it is a matter of much debate to what extent bugs can be fixed in previous Python versions (specifically, 2.7 and 3.2) without breaking more code than it fixes, and I don't want to jump the gun on that issue.  Let's first see what it takes to fix this for 3.3.