> > This looks promising. I'm working on the freeze issue. Once I get that
> > working I'll check this in. Thanks Alexandre and Christian for all
> > your hard work!!!
>
> You're welcome. Does the patch qualify me for Misc/ACKS? :)

Yes, and also Alexandre. :-)

> I'm going to work on the basestring patch after you have committed the
> changes.

The commit may have to wait a bit; I'm finding some problems on OSX
when the directory in which I'm building has a unicode character in
it. (Now, svn has severe problems with this as well, and so far it
looks like all the tests run; but still, it's disturbing.)