Message 155212 - Python tracker

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To answer Glenn's procedural question: no this is not a bug whose fix can be backported.  API changes are not allowed in maintenance releases.  Doc improvements can be backported, though, so I'm leaving versios alone (alternatively someone could split this into two bugs, one for the doc fixes for older releases, and one for adding the new capability).