Please realize, though, that reporting a bug or submitting a patch now does not guarantee that it will committed in time! The free time of the development team is limited. If you want to help a bug or patch along to make it easier to be evaluated and thus raise its chances of being dealt with please see the "Helping Out" section of the 'Intro to Development' essay at http://www.python.org/dev/dev_intro.html .
As always, both bugs and patches should be reported to Python's SourceForge tracker at http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=5470 and http://sourceforge.net/patch/?group_id=5470, respectively.
-Brett Cannon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list