[Python-Dev] patch 1462525 or similar solution?

[Paul Jimenez]

I submitted patch 1462525 awhile back to
solve the problem described even longer ago in
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-November/058301.html
and I'm wondering what my appropriate next steps are. Honestly, I don't
care if you take my patch or someone else's proposed solution, but I'd
like to see something go into the stdlib so that I can eventually stop
having to ship custom code for what is really a standard problem.

  --pj