Is there a fix to the broken python sre in 9.2 - or a newer version of python

Is there a fix coming to this Suse 9.2 python problem: http://tinyurl.com/4k3au And if the automatic update installs a fix, how can it be determined if the system is supposed to be ok? Or should one install a completely new version of python? Could that somehow harm the system? Should the old version be kept on pc just to be sure -- and how? It is very difficult for a newbie to try to learn using Linux, Python, UTF-8 etc, if you're never sure whether problems with, say, UNICODE, come from one's own mistakes or if they are due to a system that is belly up to begin with, because of a bug. /DWM