diff --git a/00176-allow-arbitrary-timeout-in-condition-wait.patch b/00176-allow-arbitrary-timeout-in-condition-wait.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..665965d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/00176-allow-arbitrary-timeout-in-condition-wait.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+diff --git a/Lib/threading.py b/Lib/threading.py
+index cb49c4a..c9795a5 100644
+--- a/Lib/threading.py
++++ b/Lib/threading.py
+@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ class _Condition(_Verbose):
+         else:
+             return True
+ 
+-    def wait(self, timeout=None):
++    def wait(self, timeout=None, balancing=True):
+         """Wait until notified or until a timeout occurs.
+ 
+         If the calling thread has not acquired the lock when this method is
+@@ -354,7 +354,10 @@ class _Condition(_Verbose):
+                     remaining = endtime - _time()
+                     if remaining <= 0:
+                         break
+-                    delay = min(delay * 2, remaining, .05)
++                    if balancing:
++                        delay = min(delay * 2, remaining, 0.05)
++                    else:
++                        delay = remaining
+                     _sleep(delay)
+                 if not gotit:
+                     if __debug__:
+@@ -599,7 +602,7 @@ class _Event(_Verbose):
+         finally:
+             self.__cond.release()
+ 
+-    def wait(self, timeout=None):
++    def wait(self, timeout=None, balancing=True):
+         """Block until the internal flag is true.
+ 
+         If the internal flag is true on entry, return immediately. Otherwise,
+@@ -617,7 +620,7 @@ class _Event(_Verbose):
+         self.__cond.acquire()
+         try:
+             if not self.__flag:
+-                self.__cond.wait(timeout)
++                self.__cond.wait(timeout, balancing)
+             return self.__flag
+         finally:
+             self.__cond.release()
+@@ -908,7 +911,7 @@ class Thread(_Verbose):
+             if 'dummy_threading' not in _sys.modules:
+                 raise
+ 
+-    def join(self, timeout=None):
++    def join(self, timeout=None, balancing=True):
+         """Wait until the thread terminates.
+ 
+         This blocks the calling thread until the thread whose join() method is
+@@ -957,7 +960,7 @@ class Thread(_Verbose):
+                         if __debug__:
+                             self._note("%s.join(): timed out", self)
+                         break
+-                    self.__block.wait(delay)
++                    self.__block.wait(delay, balancing)
+                 else:
+                     if __debug__:
+                         self._note("%s.join(): thread stopped", self)
+@@ -1143,7 +1146,7 @@ class _DummyThread(Thread):
+     def _set_daemon(self):
+         return True
+ 
+-    def join(self, timeout=None):
++    def join(self, timeout=None, balancing=True):
+         assert False, "cannot join a dummy thread"
+ 
+ 
diff --git a/python.spec b/python.spec
index 1c0ab0d..260a29f 100644
--- a/python.spec
+++ b/python.spec
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ Summary: An interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
 Name: %{python}
 # Remember to also rebase python-docs when changing this:
 Version: 2.7.4
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Release: 3%{?dist}
 License: Python
 Group: Development/Languages
 Requires: %{python}-libs%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
@@ -779,6 +779,14 @@ Patch174: 00174-fix-for-usr-move.patch
 # (rhbz#927358)
 Patch175: 00175-fix-configure-Wformat.patch
 
+# 00176 #
+# Allow arbitrary timeout for Condition.wait, as reported in
+# https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917709
+# Upstream doesn't want this: http://bugs.python.org/issue17748
+# But we have no better solution downstream yet, and since there is
+# no API breakage, we apply this patch.
+# Doesn't apply to Python 3, where this is fixed otherwise and works.
+Patch176: 00176-allow-arbitrary-timeout-in-condition-wait.patch
 
 # (New patches go here ^^^)
 #
@@ -1119,6 +1127,7 @@ mv Modules/cryptmodule.c Modules/_cryptmodule.c
 %patch173 -p1
 %patch174 -p1 -b .fix-for-usr-move
 %patch175 -p1 -b .fix-configure-Wformat
+%patch176 -p1
 
 
 # This shouldn't be necesarry, but is right now (2.2a3)
@@ -1951,6 +1960,9 @@ rm -fr %{buildroot}
 # ======================================================
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Apr 22 2013 Bohuslav Kabrda <bkabrda@redhat.com> - 2.7.4-3
+- Allow arbitrary timeout in Condition.wait (rhbz#917709).
+
 * Thu Apr 11 2013 Kalev Lember <kalevlember@gmail.com> - 2.7.4-2
 - Build with libdb 5.3 instead of libdb4
 - Refreshed patches: 0 (config), 102 (lib64)