+commit 5bb5d6d0113f6bbd72966a5c1f3e6d40c2e9c8fd
+Author: Grisha Trubetskoy <grisha@modpython.org>
+Date: Tue Dec 1 22:07:50 2015 -0500
+
+ Do not import site.py for the main interpreter. Fixes #46.
+
+diff --git a/src/mod_python.c b/src/mod_python.c
+index 8c33c04..7e0ef1e 100644
+--- a/src/mod_python.c
++++ b/src/mod_python.c
+@@ -775,8 +775,15 @@ static int python_init(apr_pool_t *p, apr_pool_t *ptemp,
+ /* disable user site directories */
+ Py_NoUserSiteDirectory = 1;
+
+- /* initialze the interpreter */
++ /* Initialze the main interpreter. We do not want site.py to
++ * be imported because as of Python 2.7.9 it would cause a
++ * circular dependency related to _locale which breaks
++ * graceful restart so we set Py_NoSiteFlag to 1 just for this
++ * one time. (https://github.com/grisha/mod_python/issues/46)
++ */
++ Py_NoSiteFlag = 1;
+ Py_Initialize();
++ Py_NoSiteFlag = 0;
+
+ #ifdef WITH_THREAD
+ /* create and acquire the interpreter lock */
+@@ -2649,7 +2656,7 @@ static void PythonChildInitHandler(apr_pool_t *p, server_rec *s)
+ * problems as well. Thus disable cleanup of Python when
+ * child processes are being shutdown. (MODPYTHON-109)
+ *
+- apr_pool_cleanup_register(p, NULL, python_finalize, apr_pool_cleanup_null);
++ * apr_pool_cleanup_register(p, NULL, python_finalize, apr_pool_cleanup_null);
+ */
+
+ /*