OK since the patches I submitted are now eight months old, I just did an
update and re-applied them. I am submitting new patch files which don't
change anything, but are patches against revision 71822 (should be much
easier to apply).
I'd still like to see doc+bytesmethods.patch applied (since it fixes
method names which make no sense at all in Python 3.0 context), but
since it's getting a bit late for that, I'll be happy for the doc-only
patch to be accepted (which merely corrects the documentation which is
still using Python 2.x terminology).