Index: src/multiarray/numpyos.c
=================================================================
--- src/multiarray/numpyos.c    (revision 8498)
+++ src/multiarray/numpyos.c    (working copy)
@@ -418,6 +418,32 @@
     return 0;
 }

+/*
+ * _NumPyOS_ascii_strtod_plain:
+ *
+ * PyOS_ascii_strtod work-alike, with no enhanced features,
+ * for forward compatibility with Python >= 2.7
+ */
+static double
+NumPyOS_ascii_strtod_plain(const char *s, char** endptr)
+{
+    double result;
+#if PY_VERSION_HEX >= 0x02070000
+    NPY_ALLOW_C_API_DEF
+    NPY_ALLOW_C_API
+    result = PyOS_string_to_double(s, endptr, NULL);
+    if (PyErr_Occurred()) {
+        if (endptr) {
+            *endptr = (char*)s;
+        }
+        PyErr_Clear();
+    }
+    NPY_DISABLE_C_API
+#else
+    result = PyOS_ascii_strtod(s, endptr);
+#endif
+    return result;
+}

 /*
  * NumPyOS_ascii_strtod:
@@ -506,7 +532,7 @@
             }
             memcpy(buffer, s, n);
             buffer[n] = '\0';
-            result = PyOS_ascii_strtod(buffer, &q);
+            result = NumPyOS_ascii_strtod_plain(buffer, &q);
             if (endptr != NULL) {
                 *endptr = (char*)(s + (q - buffer));
             }
@@ -515,7 +541,7 @@
     }
     /* End of ##2 */

-    return PyOS_ascii_strtod(s, endptr);
+    return NumPyOS_ascii_strtod_plain(s, endptr);
 }