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Mark Lawrence wrote:

> Reading the bug report http://bugs.python.org/issue23515, specifically
> msg236586, it looks as if the proposed fix was wrong and one of the
> smarter members of the python community fixed it.

If I understand that correctly Benjamin's modifications don't affect the 
functionality of the patch.