Message 294129 - Python tracker

Mark, Python now uses git and pull requests.  Can you, and do you wish to, rebase and convert to a pull request, any of your patches we wish to investigate further, yourself, or should we go ahead and do so?  Silence for a week will be taken as the latter.  The main difference is being the author of the pull request, versus 'merely' being credited in the commit message, as before.