Comment 6 for bug 893091

This patch compiles and works under Python 3 and 2.6. I haven't tested with < 2.6 but I figure we can deprecate support for < 2.6 and tell people to use the old bindings since nothing really new has been added. We can revisit if there is a major overhaul. We should release this as a beta because there might be issues with the change to default Unicode encoding. Otherwise it should be pretty much identical to the older version.

The original fedora bugs can be seen here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538616

Moving the patch development upstream to Freedesktop.org. Fedora bug should now be used only to track packaging issue and fedora/RHEL related issues.