diff --git a/dev-lang/python/Manifest b/dev-lang/python/Manifest
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..eac9ac5b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-lang/python/Manifest
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+AUX linux2.patch 332 RMD160 b6c4f45baee17fc5b0a88b63bbca87b77eaa16d3 SHA1 7722cc338a88d690e06f2ed0d9257b086286c288 SHA256 8c5f8d73e279767190c9567f959514167101ea2648f9f4c8146704c5946d8b41
+AUX pydoc.conf 279 RMD160 85dcc3abd24faf09f3753b5c2299517f9b2ebc6a SHA1 c1faef486a0041c2175bfbc2cf10eccaa574e8c2 SHA256 6437e85d16d34efaf2665b3cabb0707392e6dee3df04989d3fcac63fd22997e8
+AUX pydoc.init 741 RMD160 f6414ad95d7f1258f34afa5c9ff5efaa508a4d9d SHA1 576b5e7ac3c7e36d2e809de5b419d87f1bf23aba SHA256 913be80dea585dd161d2fd439f56a358f148853d8305cb0dbf113c91eb1643f5
+AUX python-2.4.4-test-cross.patch 977 RMD160 8fdcd45dc202993988f7a1c2b3d918068883b99e SHA1 96f25777150ba05765282a43f08da6b6fab3cb73 SHA256 ff2a131776d560d188ec5069e17fea3eb09c26fdd02124ae5ff34d791c9fd9f6
+AUX python-2.5-cross-printf.patch 903 RMD160 8dc0ee148120aaf7667624bdb5574bb6af5d2a00 SHA1 596e05be8cde43e4cdd87c8ed06ebb40828f7cea SHA256 1e91e5123d74d89aa8fc9dc60d98516b785f851e43da9b634ae535130e24e780
+AUX python-2.6-chflags-cross.patch 1716 RMD160 b0ec772a41a24d51f4c7430b19bcc6251cd6be87 SHA1 4745cd53cef503c41c50573ad97f40eb89fd4bcd SHA256 7c36689db47720052069725036983c2fb6959f425e3777aae55976b2788d463f
+AUX python-2.6-test-cross.patch 914 RMD160 1f421b5565d39a24b887e85cbecaf3857741f756 SHA1 9c05fbe28aac6373f24317db5c277bc4549dde0c SHA256 8264f6ffe5aedcce67bea00b0346e5416a5486da2229bf82fe748d87ec65c4de
+AUX python-2.7-gdbm-1.9.patch 291 RMD160 1d360511509655f804f5d21e1455e62d6f25eac7 SHA1 0e24badfef8e5659ed61fc3483b87f4dfc3be393 SHA256 33e66b84265031a088e371d5ab22f396437929d64f6d4bff400c6fefea5f1320
+AUX python-3-distutils-egg-utf8.patch 1636 RMD160 840d7fea399df295cbba1124fb8fcb797a7011ed SHA1 4697d7d737101ad3f1d9c4a0c6ff848fd7114823 SHA256 81d66620f0774aa2fb6c9664670862eb1b666ba15874b5498af28360f2e1aa52
+AUX python-3.2-soname_typo.patch 1724 RMD160 1b112382152731768b655279145c7caa31d1094f SHA1 808fdab3b1d1664fc20c67dce008e7ea48134a4e SHA256 776366c3cc67c7d66883846acee8cc1b795c25f6e35e927793be8c54162491e2
+AUX python-config-2.4-r1 1624 RMD160 e4e6893c9e8414289c0c70c0f4be58835911e376 SHA1 addf9a6eb81e636364264a6abb3d96f01ea0cf90 SHA256 923a9e896f99cca5aa4ccbb02f981c6e26a2b1aa42326de2359d3c884bde2a9f
+DIST Python-2.7.2.tar.bz2 11754834 RMD160 c3bf4f09b7c429a4d9f4cc251c795304cd5232c5 SHA1 417bdeea77abfaf1b9257fc6b4a04aaa209f4547 SHA256 5057eb067eb5b5a6040dbd0e889e06550bde9ec041dadaa855ee9490034cbdab
+DIST python-gentoo-patches-2.7.2.tar.bz2 14485 RMD160 6b66705d61b525d0089326ddb700ad3c5ad6e23e SHA1 94fc9b00cc7e7c60cce41640dc09fd2395a5c5d9 SHA256 29616ce50244c0f7c85b903dcb939d656bfd9d5e8a930d90bff6cf878f3ac5a5
+EBUILD python-2.7.2-r3.ebuild 12123 RMD160 6175396fe6cabfb1882650a5c2ab7d13d591c0e0 SHA1 180ccbf5f0ed2e734f07edbfc1cc88576f3a91df SHA256 f8b1f5624393a51df93048508e99c8845e12067fd129c8289cd9bc3f59853f92
diff --git a/dev-lang/python/files/linux2.patch b/dev-lang/python/files/linux2.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b002dc339
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-lang/python/files/linux2.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/c816479f6aaf/
+diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
+--- a/configure.in
++++ b/configure.in
+@@ -293,6 +293,7 @@ then
+ 	MACHDEP="$ac_md_system$ac_md_release"
+ 
+ 	case $MACHDEP in
++	linux*) MACHDEP="linux2";;
+ 	cygwin*) MACHDEP="cygwin";;
+ 	darwin*) MACHDEP="darwin";;
+ 	atheos*) MACHDEP="atheos";;
+
diff --git a/dev-lang/python/files/pydoc.conf b/dev-lang/python/files/pydoc.conf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..20e3628ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-lang/python/files/pydoc.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# /etc/init.d/pydoc.conf
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-lang/python/files/pydoc.conf,v 1.3 2011/10/27 13:56:55 neurogeek Exp $
+
+# This file contains the configuration for pydoc's internal webserver.
+
+# Default port for Python's pydoc server.
+@PYDOC_PORT_VARIABLE@="7464"
diff --git a/dev-lang/python/files/pydoc.init b/dev-lang/python/files/pydoc.init
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..0d62dfcf0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-lang/python/files/pydoc.init
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+#!/sbin/runscript
+# Copyright 1999-2011 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence v2
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-lang/python/files/pydoc.init,v 1.4 2011/10/27 13:56:55 neurogeek Exp $
+
+depend() {
+	need net
+}
+
+start() {
+	local pydoc_port="${@PYDOC_PORT_VARIABLE@-${PYDOC_PORT}}"
+
+	if [ -z "${pydoc_port}" ]; then
+		eerror "Port not set"
+		return 1
+	fi
+
+	ebegin "Starting pydoc server on port ${pydoc_port}" 
+	start-stop-daemon --start --background --make-pidfile \
+			  --pidfile /var/run/@PYDOC@.pid \
+			  --exec /usr/bin/@PYDOC@ -- -p "${pydoc_port}"
+	eend $?
+}
+
+stop() {
+	ebegin "Stopping pydoc server"
+	start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile /var/run/@PYDOC@.pid
+	eend $?
+}
diff --git a/dev-lang/python/files/python-2.4.4-test-cross.patch b/dev-lang/python/files/python-2.4.4-test-cross.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d32cb3ff4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-lang/python/files/python-2.4.4-test-cross.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+--- Python-2.4.4/Lib/test/test_multibytecodec.py.orig	2007-09-10 14:52:34.424592960 -0400
++++ Python-2.4.4/Lib/test/test_multibytecodec.py	2007-09-10 14:53:30.646201491 -0400
+@@ -81,11 +81,11 @@ class Test_ISO2022(unittest.TestCase):
+         uni = u':hu4:unit\xe9 de famille'
+         self.assertEqual(iso2022jp2.decode('iso2022-jp-2'), uni)
+ 
+-    def test_iso2022_jp_g0(self):
+-        self.failIf('\x0e' in u'\N{SOFT HYPHEN}'.encode('iso-2022-jp-2'))
+-        for encoding in ('iso-2022-jp-2004', 'iso-2022-jp-3'):
+-            e = u'\u3406'.encode(encoding)
+-            self.failIf(filter(lambda x: x >= '\x80', e))
++#    def test_iso2022_jp_g0(self):
++#        self.failIf('\x0e' in u'\N{SOFT HYPHEN}'.encode('iso-2022-jp-2'))
++#        for encoding in ('iso-2022-jp-2004', 'iso-2022-jp-3'):
++#            e = u'\u3406'.encode(encoding)
++#            self.failIf(filter(lambda x: x >= '\x80', e))
+ 
+     def test_bug1572832(self):
+         if sys.maxunicode >= 0x10000:
diff --git a/dev-lang/python/files/python-2.5-cross-printf.patch b/dev-lang/python/files/python-2.5-cross-printf.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9a3eaf710
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-lang/python/files/python-2.5-cross-printf.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+http://bugs.gentoo.org/239110
+
+assume %zd is supported when cross-compiling.  any target we care about
+supports it, so ...
+
+--- configure.in
++++ configure.in
+@@ -3417,7 +3417,7 @@
+ 					   
+ 
+ 
+-AC_MSG_CHECKING(for %zd printf() format support)
++AC_CACHE_CHECK([for %zd printf() format support], [py_cv_has_zd_printf], [dnl
+ AC_TRY_RUN([#include <stdio.h>
+ #include <stddef.h>
+ #include <string.h>
+@@ -3451,10 +3451,13 @@
+ 	return 1;
+ 
+     return 0;
+-}],
+-[AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
+- AC_DEFINE(PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T, "z", [Define to printf format modifier for Py_ssize_t])],
+- AC_MSG_RESULT(no))
++}], [py_cv_has_zd_printf="yes"],
++    [py_cv_has_zd_printf="no"],
++    [py_cv_has_zd_printf="cross -- assuming yes"]
++)])
++if test "$py_cv_has_zd_printf" != "no" ; then
++  AC_DEFINE(PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T, "z", [Define to printf format modifier for Py_ssize_t])
++fi
+ 
+ AC_CHECK_TYPE(socklen_t,,
+   AC_DEFINE(socklen_t,int,
diff --git a/dev-lang/python/files/python-2.6-chflags-cross.patch b/dev-lang/python/files/python-2.6-chflags-cross.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9c4b6d2ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-lang/python/files/python-2.6-chflags-cross.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+if we're cross-compiling, fall back to a link-only test rather than trying
+to run a program for the chflags functions
+
+--- python-2.6/configure.in
++++ python-2.6/configure.in
+@@ -2565,7 +2565,7 @@
+ 
+ # On Tru64, chflags seems to be present, but calling it will
+ # exit Python
+-AC_MSG_CHECKING(for chflags)
++AC_CACHE_CHECK([for chflags], [py_cv_has_chflags], [dnl
+ AC_TRY_RUN([
+ #include <sys/stat.h>
+ #include <unistd.h>
+@@ -2575,12 +2575,18 @@
+     return 1;
+   return 0;
+ }
+-],AC_DEFINE(HAVE_CHFLAGS, 1, Define to 1 if you have the `chflags' function.)
+-  AC_MSG_RESULT(yes),
+-  AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
+-)
++], [py_cv_has_chflags="yes"],
++   [py_cv_has_chflags="no"],
++   [py_cv_has_chflags="cross"])
++])
++if test "$py_cv_has_chflags" = "cross" ; then
++  AC_CHECK_FUNC([chflags], [py_cv_has_chflags="yes"], [py_cv_has_chflags="no"])
++fi
++if test "$py_cv_has_chflags" = "yes" ; then
++  AC_DEFINE(HAVE_CHFLAGS, 1, Define to 1 if you have the `chflags' function.)
++fi
+ 
+-AC_MSG_CHECKING(for lchflags)
++AC_CACHE_CHECK([for lchflags], [py_cv_has_lchflags], [dnl
+ AC_TRY_RUN([
+ #include <sys/stat.h>
+ #include <unistd.h>
+@@ -2590,10 +2596,16 @@
+     return 1;
+   return 0;
+ }
+-],AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LCHFLAGS, 1, Define to 1 if you have the `lchflags' function.)
+-  AC_MSG_RESULT(yes),
+-  AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
+-)
++], [py_cv_has_lchflags="yes"],
++   [py_cv_has_lchflags="no"],
++   [py_cv_has_lchflags="cross"])
++])
++if test "$py_cv_has_lchflags" = "cross" ; then
++  AC_CHECK_FUNC([lchflags], [py_cv_has_lchflags="yes"], [py_cv_has_lchflags="no"])
++fi
++if test "$py_cv_has_lchflags" = "yes" ; then
++  AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LCHFLAGS, 1, Define to 1 if you have the `lchflags' function.)
++fi
+ 
+ dnl Check if system zlib has *Copy() functions
+ dnl
diff --git a/dev-lang/python/files/python-2.6-test-cross.patch b/dev-lang/python/files/python-2.6-test-cross.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0ff41939a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-lang/python/files/python-2.6-test-cross.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+--- Lib/test/test_multibytecodec.py.orig	2008-04-19 18:48:59.000000000 +0300
++++ Lib/test/test_multibytecodec.py	2008-04-19 18:49:44.000000000 +0300
+@@ -212,11 +212,11 @@
+         uni = u':hu4:unit\xe9 de famille'
+         self.assertEqual(iso2022jp2.decode('iso2022-jp-2'), uni)
+ 
+-    def test_iso2022_jp_g0(self):
+-        self.failIf('\x0e' in u'\N{SOFT HYPHEN}'.encode('iso-2022-jp-2'))
+-        for encoding in ('iso-2022-jp-2004', 'iso-2022-jp-3'):
+-            e = u'\u3406'.encode(encoding)
+-            self.failIf(filter(lambda x: x >= '\x80', e))
++    #def test_iso2022_jp_g0(self):
++    #    self.failIf('\x0e' in u'\N{SOFT HYPHEN}'.encode('iso-2022-jp-2'))
++    #    for encoding in ('iso-2022-jp-2004', 'iso-2022-jp-3'):
++    #        e = u'\u3406'.encode(encoding)
++    #        self.failIf(filter(lambda x: x >= '\x80', e))
+ 
+     def test_bug1572832(self):
+         if sys.maxunicode >= 0x10000:
diff --git a/dev-lang/python/files/python-2.7-gdbm-1.9.patch b/dev-lang/python/files/python-2.7-gdbm-1.9.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a824879e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-lang/python/files/python-2.7-gdbm-1.9.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- a/Lib/whichdb.py
++++ b/Lib/whichdb.py
+@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ def whichdb(filename):
+         return ""
+ 
+     # Check for GNU dbm
+-    if magic == 0x13579ace:
++    if magic == (0x13579ace, 0x13579acd, 0x13579acf):
+         return "gdbm"
+ 
+     # Check for old Berkeley db hash file format v2
diff --git a/dev-lang/python/files/python-3-distutils-egg-utf8.patch b/dev-lang/python/files/python-3-distutils-egg-utf8.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d3213f39e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-lang/python/files/python-3-distutils-egg-utf8.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+
+# HG changeset patch
+# User Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>
+# Date 1315259096 -7200
+# Node ID fb4d2e6d393e96baac13c4efc216e361bf12c293
+# Parent  cb47cf5138a4567718a25d69a79d1c62d13f187c
+Issue #9561: distutils now reads and writes egg-info files using UTF-8
+
+instead of the locale encoding.
+
+diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/install_egg_info.py b/Lib/distutils/command/install_egg_info.py
+--- a/Lib/distutils/command/install_egg_info.py
++++ b/Lib/distutils/command/install_egg_info.py
+@@ -40,9 +40,8 @@ class install_egg_info(Command):
+                          "Creating "+self.install_dir)
+         log.info("Writing %s", target)
+         if not self.dry_run:
+-            f = open(target, 'w')
+-            self.distribution.metadata.write_pkg_file(f)
+-            f.close()
++            with open(target, 'w', encoding='UTF-8') as f:
++                self.distribution.metadata.write_pkg_file(f)
+ 
+     def get_outputs(self):
+         return self.outputs
+diff --git a/Lib/distutils/dist.py b/Lib/distutils/dist.py
+--- a/Lib/distutils/dist.py
++++ b/Lib/distutils/dist.py
+@@ -1010,11 +1010,9 @@ class DistributionMetadata:
+     def write_pkg_info(self, base_dir):
+         """Write the PKG-INFO file into the release tree.
+         """
+-        pkg_info = open(os.path.join(base_dir, 'PKG-INFO'), 'w')
+-        try:
++        with open(os.path.join(base_dir, 'PKG-INFO'), 'w',
++                  encoding='UTF-8') as pkg_info:
+             self.write_pkg_file(pkg_info)
+-        finally:
+-            pkg_info.close()
+ 
+     def write_pkg_file(self, file):
+         """Write the PKG-INFO format data to a file object.
+
diff --git a/dev-lang/python/files/python-3.2-soname_typo.patch b/dev-lang/python/files/python-3.2-soname_typo.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..357274c49
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-lang/python/files/python-3.2-soname_typo.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+# HG changeset patch
+# User Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
+# Date 1304919465 -7200
+# Node ID 749686064642118c5ccc8ad28105472321931353
+# Parent  4f3f67a595fb05f04d89ed906df911b743e47463
+Use --as-needed when linking libpython3.so. Closes #11347.
+Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
+
+diff --git a/Makefile.pre.in b/Makefile.pre.in
+--- a/Makefile.pre.in
++++ b/Makefile.pre.in
+@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ PY_CFLAGS=	$(BASECFLAGS) $(OPT) $(CONFIG
+ # environment variables
+ PY_CPPFLAGS=	-I. -IInclude -I$(srcdir)/Include $(CONFIGURE_CPPFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS)
+ PY_LDFLAGS=	$(CONFIGURE_LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS)
++NO_AS_NEEDED=	@NO_AS_NEEDED@
+ LDLAST=		@LDLAST@
+ SGI_ABI=	@SGI_ABI@
+ CCSHARED=	@CCSHARED@
+@@ -459,7 +460,7 @@ libpython$(LDVERSION).so: $(LIBRARY_OBJS
+ 	fi
+ 
+ libpython3.so:	libpython$(LDVERSION).so
+-	$(BLDSHARED) -o $@ -Wl,-hl$@ $^
++	$(BLDSHARED) $(NO_AS_NEEDED) -o $@ -Wl,-h$@ $^
+ 
+ libpython$(LDVERSION).dylib: $(LIBRARY_OBJS)
+ 	 $(CC) -dynamiclib -Wl,-single_module $(PY_LDFLAGS) -undefined dynamic_lookup -Wl,-install_name,$(prefix)/lib/libpython$(LDVERSION).dylib -Wl,-compatibility_version,$(VERSION) -Wl,-current_version,$(VERSION) -o $@ $(LIBRARY_OBJS) $(SHLIBS) $(LIBC) $(LIBM) $(LDLAST); \
+diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
+--- a/configure.in
++++ b/configure.in
+@@ -525,6 +525,18 @@ then
+ fi
+ 
+ 
++AC_MSG_CHECKING([for -Wl,--no-as-needed])
++save_LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS"
++LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -Wl,--no-as-needed"
++AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[]], [[]])],
++  [NO_AS_NEEDED="-Wl,--no-as-needed"
++   AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])],
++  [NO_AS_NEEDED=""
++   AC_MSG_RESULT([no])])
++LDFLAGS="$save_LDFLAGS"
++AC_SUBST(NO_AS_NEEDED)
++
++
+ # checks for UNIX variants that set C preprocessor variables
+ AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
+ 
+
diff --git a/dev-lang/python/files/python-config-2.4-r1 b/dev-lang/python/files/python-config-2.4-r1
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..af451131c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-lang/python/files/python-config-2.4-r1
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+#! /usr/bin/python2.4
+
+import sys
+import os
+import getopt
+from distutils import sysconfig
+
+valid_opts = ['prefix', 'exec-prefix', 'includes', 'libs', 'cflags', 
+              'ldflags', 'help']
+
+def exit_with_usage(code=1):
+    print >>sys.stderr, "Usage: %s [%s]" % (sys.argv[0], 
+                                            '|'.join('--'+opt for opt in valid_opts))
+    sys.exit(code)
+
+try:
+    opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], '', valid_opts)
+except getopt.error:
+    exit_with_usage()
+
+if not opts:
+    #exit_with_usage()
+    #be compatible with our old python-config-2.4
+    import string
+    print "-lpython2.4 -lm -L/usr/lib/python2.4/config",string.join(string.split(sysconfig.get_config_var("MODLIBS")))
+    sys.exit(0)
+
+opt = opts[0][0]
+
+pyver = sysconfig.get_config_var('VERSION')
+getvar = sysconfig.get_config_var
+
+if opt == '--help':
+    exit_with_usage(0)
+
+elif opt == '--prefix':
+    print sysconfig.PREFIX
+
+elif opt == '--exec-prefix':
+    print sysconfig.EXEC_PREFIX
+
+elif opt in ('--includes', '--cflags'):
+    flags = ['-I' + sysconfig.get_python_inc(),
+             '-I' + sysconfig.get_python_inc(plat_specific=True)]
+    if opt == '--cflags':
+        flags.extend(getvar('CFLAGS').split())
+    print ' '.join(flags)
+
+elif opt in ('--libs', '--ldflags'):
+    libs = getvar('LIBS').split() + getvar('SYSLIBS').split()
+    libs.append('-lpython'+pyver)
+    # add the prefix/lib/pythonX.Y/config dir, but only if there is no
+    # shared library in prefix/lib/.
+    if opt == '--ldflags' and not getvar('Py_ENABLE_SHARED'):
+        libs.insert(0, '-L' + getvar('LIBPL'))
+    print ' '.join(libs)
+
+
diff --git a/dev-lang/python/python-2.7.2-r3.ebuild b/dev-lang/python/python-2.7.2-r3.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d213fab67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-lang/python/python-2.7.2-r3.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,398 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2012 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-lang/python/python-2.7.2-r3.ebuild,v 1.11 2012/02/13 18:29:32 xarthisius Exp $
+
+EAPI="2"
+WANT_AUTOMAKE="none"
+
+inherit autotools eutils flag-o-matic multilib python toolchain-funcs
+
+if [[ "${PV}" == *_pre* ]]; then
+	inherit mercurial
+
+	EHG_REPO_URI="http://hg.python.org/cpython"
+	EHG_REVISION=""
+else
+	MY_PV="${PV%_p*}"
+	MY_P="Python-${MY_PV}"
+fi
+
+PATCHSET_REVISION="0"
+
+DESCRIPTION="Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language."
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.python.org/"
+if [[ "${PV}" == *_pre* ]]; then
+	SRC_URI=""
+else
+	SRC_URI="http://www.python.org/ftp/python/${MY_PV}/${MY_P}.tar.bz2
+		mirror://gentoo/python-gentoo-patches-${MY_PV}$([[ "${PATCHSET_REVISION}" != "0" ]] && echo "-r${PATCHSET_REVISION}").tar.bz2"
+fi
+
+LICENSE="PSF-2"
+SLOT="2.7"
+PYTHON_ABI="${SLOT}"
+KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86 ~sparc-fbsd ~x86-fbsd"
+IUSE="-berkdb build doc elibc_uclibc examples gdbm ipv6 +ncurses +readline sqlite +ssl +threads tk +wide-unicode wininst +xml"
+
+RDEPEND=">=app-admin/eselect-python-20091230
+		app-arch/bzip2
+		>=sys-libs/zlib-1.1.3
+		virtual/libffi
+		virtual/libintl
+		!build? (
+			berkdb? ( || (
+				sys-libs/db:4.8
+				sys-libs/db:4.7
+				sys-libs/db:4.6
+				sys-libs/db:4.5
+				sys-libs/db:4.4
+				sys-libs/db:4.3
+				sys-libs/db:4.2
+			) )
+			gdbm? ( sys-libs/gdbm )
+			ncurses? (
+				>=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2
+				readline? ( >=sys-libs/readline-4.1 )
+			)
+			sqlite? ( >=dev-db/sqlite-3.3.8:3[extensions] )
+			ssl? ( dev-libs/openssl )
+			tk? (
+				>=dev-lang/tk-8.0
+				dev-tcltk/blt
+			)
+			xml? ( >=dev-libs/expat-2 )
+		)
+		!!<sys-apps/portage-2.1.9"
+DEPEND=">=sys-devel/autoconf-2.65
+		${RDEPEND}
+		$([[ "${PV}" == *_pre* ]] && echo "=${CATEGORY}/${PN}-${PV%%.*}*")
+		dev-util/pkgconfig
+		$([[ "${PV}" =~ ^[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+_pre ]] && echo "doc? ( dev-python/sphinx )")
+		!sys-devel/gcc[libffi]"
+RDEPEND+=" !build? ( app-misc/mime-types )
+		$([[ "${PV}" =~ ^[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+_pre ]] || echo "doc? ( dev-python/python-docs:${SLOT} )")"
+PDEPEND="app-admin/python-updater"
+
+if [[ "${PV}" != *_pre* ]]; then
+	S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
+fi
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	python_pkg_setup
+
+	if use berkdb; then
+		ewarn "\"bsddb\" module is out-of-date and no longer maintained inside dev-lang/python."
+		ewarn "\"bsddb\" and \"dbhash\" modules have been additionally removed in Python 3."
+		ewarn "You should use external, still maintained \"bsddb3\" module provided by dev-python/bsddb3,"
+		ewarn "which supports both Python 2 and Python 3."
+	else
+		if has_version "=${CATEGORY}/${PN}-${PV%%.*}*[berkdb]"; then
+			ewarn "You are migrating from =${CATEGORY}/${PN}-${PV%%.*}*[berkdb] to =${CATEGORY}/${PN}-${PV%%.*}*[-berkdb]."
+			ewarn "You might need to migrate your databases."
+		fi
+	fi
+}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	# Ensure that internal copies of expat, libffi and zlib are not used.
+	rm -fr Modules/expat
+	rm -fr Modules/_ctypes/libffi*
+	rm -fr Modules/zlib
+
+	if [[ "${PV}" =~ ^[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+_pre ]]; then
+		if [[ "$(hg branch)" != "default" ]]; then
+			die "Invalid EHG_REVISION"
+		fi
+	fi
+
+	if [[ "${PV}" =~ ^[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+_pre ]]; then
+		if [[ "$(hg branch)" != "${SLOT}" ]]; then
+			die "Invalid EHG_REVISION"
+		fi
+
+		if grep -Eq '#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL[[:space:]]+PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_FINAL' Include/patchlevel.h; then
+			# Update micro version, release level and version string.
+			local micro_version="${PV%_pre*}"
+			micro_version="${micro_version##*.}"
+			local version_string="${PV%.*}.$((${micro_version} - 1))+"
+			sed \
+				-e "s/\(#define PY_MICRO_VERSION[[:space:]]\+\)[^[:space:]]\+/\1${micro_version}/" \
+				-e "s/\(#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL[[:space:]]\+\)[^[:space:]]\+/\1PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_ALPHA/" \
+				-e "s/\(#define PY_VERSION[[:space:]]\+\"\)[^\"]\+\(\"\)/\1${version_string}\2/" \
+				-i Include/patchlevel.h || die "sed failed"
+		fi
+	fi
+
+	local excluded_patches
+	if ! tc-is-cross-compiler; then
+		excluded_patches="*_all_crosscompile.patch"
+	fi
+
+	local patchset_dir
+	if [[ "${PV}" == *_pre* ]]; then
+		patchset_dir="${FILESDIR}/${SLOT}-${PATCHSET_REVISION}"
+	else
+		patchset_dir="${WORKDIR}/${MY_PV}"
+	fi
+
+	EPATCH_EXCLUDE="${excluded_patches}" EPATCH_SUFFIX="patch" epatch "${patchset_dir}"
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}/linux2.patch"
+
+	# Bug 3159, upstream:
+	# http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/14cafb8d1480
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}/${PN}-2.7-gdbm-1.9.patch"
+
+	sed -i -e "s:@@GENTOO_LIBDIR@@:$(get_libdir):g" \
+		Lib/distutils/command/install.py \
+		Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py \
+		Lib/site.py \
+		Lib/sysconfig.py \
+		Lib/test/test_site.py \
+		Makefile.pre.in \
+		Modules/Setup.dist \
+		Modules/getpath.c \
+		setup.py || die "sed failed to replace @@GENTOO_LIBDIR@@"
+
+	# Linux-3 compat. Bug #374579 (upstream issue12571)
+	cp -r "${S}/Lib/plat-linux2" "${S}/Lib/plat-linux3" || die
+
+	eautoconf
+	eautoheader
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	if use build; then
+		# Disable extraneous modules with extra dependencies.
+		export PYTHON_DISABLE_MODULES="dbm _bsddb gdbm _curses _curses_panel readline _sqlite3 _tkinter _elementtree pyexpat"
+		export PYTHON_DISABLE_SSL="1"
+	else
+		# dbm module can be linked against berkdb or gdbm.
+		# Defaults to gdbm when both are enabled, #204343.
+		local disable
+		use berkdb   || use gdbm || disable+=" dbm"
+		use berkdb   || disable+=" _bsddb"
+		use gdbm     || disable+=" gdbm"
+		use ncurses  || disable+=" _curses _curses_panel"
+		use readline || disable+=" readline"
+		use sqlite   || disable+=" _sqlite3"
+		use ssl      || export PYTHON_DISABLE_SSL="1"
+		use tk       || disable+=" _tkinter"
+		use xml      || disable+=" _elementtree pyexpat" # _elementtree uses pyexpat.
+		export PYTHON_DISABLE_MODULES="${disable}"
+
+		if ! use xml; then
+			ewarn "You have configured Python without XML support."
+			ewarn "This is NOT a recommended configuration as you"
+			ewarn "may face problems parsing any XML documents."
+		fi
+	fi
+
+	if [[ -n "${PYTHON_DISABLE_MODULES}" ]]; then
+		einfo "Disabled modules: ${PYTHON_DISABLE_MODULES}"
+	fi
+
+	if [[ "$(gcc-major-version)" -ge 4 ]]; then
+		append-flags -fwrapv
+	fi
+
+	filter-flags -malign-double
+
+	[[ "${ARCH}" == "alpha" ]] && append-flags -fPIC
+
+	# https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50309
+	if is-flagq -O3; then
+		is-flagq -fstack-protector-all && replace-flags -O3 -O2
+		use hardened && replace-flags -O3 -O2
+	fi
+
+	if tc-is-cross-compiler; then
+		OPT="-O1" CFLAGS="" LDFLAGS="" CC="" \
+		./configure --{build,host}=${CBUILD} || die "cross-configure failed"
+		emake python Parser/pgen || die "cross-make failed"
+		mv python hostpython
+		mv Parser/pgen Parser/hostpgen
+		make distclean
+		sed -i \
+			-e "/^HOSTPYTHON/s:=.*:=./hostpython:" \
+			-e "/^HOSTPGEN/s:=.*:=./Parser/hostpgen:" \
+			Makefile.pre.in || die "sed failed"
+	fi
+
+	# Export CXX so it ends up in /usr/lib/python2.X/config/Makefile.
+	tc-export CXX
+
+	# Set LDFLAGS so we link modules with -lpython2.7 correctly.
+	# Needed on FreeBSD unless Python 2.7 is already installed.
+	# Please query BSD team before removing this!
+	append-ldflags "-L."
+
+	local dbmliborder
+	if use gdbm; then
+		dbmliborder+="${dbmliborder:+:}gdbm"
+	fi
+	if use berkdb; then
+		dbmliborder+="${dbmliborder:+:}bdb"
+	fi
+
+	OPT="" econf \
+		--with-fpectl \
+		--enable-shared \
+		$(use_enable ipv6) \
+		$(use_with threads) \
+		$(use wide-unicode && echo "--enable-unicode=ucs4" || echo "--enable-unicode=ucs2") \
+		--infodir='${prefix}/share/info' \
+		--mandir='${prefix}/share/man' \
+		--with-dbmliborder="${dbmliborder}" \
+		--with-libc="" \
+		--enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions \
+		--with-system-expat \
+		--with-system-ffi
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	emake EPYTHON="python${PV%%.*}" || die "emake failed"
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	# Tests will not work when cross compiling.
+	if tc-is-cross-compiler; then
+		elog "Disabling tests due to crosscompiling."
+		return
+	fi
+
+	# Byte compiling should be enabled here.
+	# Otherwise test_import fails.
+	python_enable_pyc
+
+	# Skip failing tests.
+	local skipped_tests="distutils gdb"
+
+	for test in ${skipped_tests}; do
+		mv "${S}/Lib/test/test_${test}.py" "${T}"
+	done
+
+	# Rerun failed tests in verbose mode (regrtest -w).
+	emake test EXTRATESTOPTS="-w" < /dev/tty
+	local result="$?"
+
+	for test in ${skipped_tests}; do
+		mv "${T}/test_${test}.py" "${S}/Lib/test/test_${test}.py"
+	done
+
+	elog "The following tests have been skipped:"
+	for test in ${skipped_tests}; do
+		elog "test_${test}.py"
+	done
+
+	elog "If you would like to run them, you may:"
+	elog "cd '${EPREFIX}$(python_get_libdir)/test'"
+	elog "and run the tests separately."
+
+	python_disable_pyc
+
+	if [[ "${result}" -ne 0 ]]; then
+		die "emake test failed"
+	fi
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	[[ -z "${ED}" ]] && ED="${D%/}${EPREFIX}/"
+
+	emake DESTDIR="${D}" altinstall maninstall || die "emake altinstall maninstall failed"
+	python_clean_installation_image -q
+
+	sed -e "s/\(LDFLAGS=\).*/\1/" -i "${ED}$(python_get_libdir)/config/Makefile" || die "sed failed"
+
+	mv "${ED}usr/bin/python${SLOT}-config" "${ED}usr/bin/python-config-${SLOT}"
+
+	# Fix collisions between different slots of Python.
+	mv "${ED}usr/bin/2to3" "${ED}usr/bin/2to3-${SLOT}"
+	mv "${ED}usr/bin/pydoc" "${ED}usr/bin/pydoc${SLOT}"
+	mv "${ED}usr/bin/idle" "${ED}usr/bin/idle${SLOT}"
+	rm -f "${ED}usr/bin/smtpd.py"
+
+	if use build; then
+		rm -fr "${ED}usr/bin/idle${SLOT}" "${ED}$(python_get_libdir)/"{bsddb,dbhash.py,idlelib,lib-tk,sqlite3,test}
+	else
+		use elibc_uclibc && rm -fr "${ED}$(python_get_libdir)/"{bsddb/test,test}
+		use berkdb || rm -fr "${ED}$(python_get_libdir)/"{bsddb,dbhash.py,test/test_bsddb*}
+		use sqlite || rm -fr "${ED}$(python_get_libdir)/"{sqlite3,test/test_sqlite*}
+		use tk || rm -fr "${ED}usr/bin/idle${SLOT}" "${ED}$(python_get_libdir)/"{idlelib,lib-tk}
+	fi
+
+	use threads || rm -fr "${ED}$(python_get_libdir)/multiprocessing"
+	use wininst || rm -f "${ED}$(python_get_libdir)/distutils/command/"wininst-*.exe
+
+	dodoc Misc/{ACKS,HISTORY,NEWS} || die "dodoc failed"
+
+	if use examples; then
+		insinto /usr/share/doc/${PF}/examples
+		doins -r "${S}/Tools" || die "doins failed"
+	fi
+
+	newconfd "${FILESDIR}/pydoc.conf" pydoc-${SLOT} || die "newconfd failed"
+	newinitd "${FILESDIR}/pydoc.init" pydoc-${SLOT} || die "newinitd failed"
+
+	if use kernel_linux; then
+		if [ -d "${ED}$(python_get_libdir)/plat-linux2" ];then
+			cp -r "${ED}$(python_get_libdir)/plat-linux2" \
+				"${ED}$(python_get_libdir)/plat-linux3" || die "copy plat-linux failed"
+		else
+			cp -r "${ED}$(python_get_libdir)/plat-linux3" \
+				"${ED}$(python_get_libdir)/plat-linux2" || die "copy plat-linux failed"
+		fi
+	fi
+
+	sed \
+		-e "s:@PYDOC_PORT_VARIABLE@:PYDOC${SLOT/./_}_PORT:" \
+		-e "s:@PYDOC@:pydoc${SLOT}:" \
+		-i "${ED}etc/conf.d/pydoc-${SLOT}" "${ED}etc/init.d/pydoc-${SLOT}" || die "sed failed"
+}
+
+pkg_preinst() {
+	if has_version "<${CATEGORY}/${PN}-${SLOT}" && ! has_version "${CATEGORY}/${PN}:2.7"; then
+		python_updater_warning="1"
+	fi
+}
+
+eselect_python_update() {
+	[[ -z "${EROOT}" || (! -d "${EROOT}" && -d "${ROOT}") ]] && EROOT="${ROOT%/}${EPREFIX}/"
+
+	if [[ -z "$(eselect python show)" || ! -f "${EROOT}usr/bin/$(eselect python show)" ]]; then
+		eselect python update
+	fi
+
+	if [[ -z "$(eselect python show --python${PV%%.*})" || ! -f "${EROOT}usr/bin/$(eselect python show --python${PV%%.*})" ]]; then
+		eselect python update --python${PV%%.*}
+	fi
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	eselect_python_update
+
+	python_mod_optimize -f -x "/(site-packages|test|tests)/" $(python_get_libdir)
+
+	if [[ "${python_updater_warning}" == "1" ]]; then
+		ewarn
+		ewarn "\e[1;31m************************************************************************\e[0m"
+		ewarn
+		ewarn "You have just upgraded from an older version of Python."
+		ewarn "You should switch active version of Python ${PV%%.*} and run"
+		ewarn "'python-updater \${options}' to rebuild Python modules."
+		ewarn
+		ewarn "\e[1;31m************************************************************************\e[0m"
+		ewarn
+
+		local n
+		for ((n = 0; n < 12; n++)); do
+			echo -ne "\a"
+			sleep 1
+		done
+	fi
+}
+
+pkg_postrm() {
+	eselect_python_update
+
+	python_mod_cleanup $(python_get_libdir)
+}