Message 210606 - Python tracker

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Here is the ultimate patch for this bug. The doc fix is based on Larry's writing: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-January/132156.html

I made sure the patch could be compiled by Sphinx and displayed nicely. I added test and comment in the code.