diff --git a/srcpkgs/python/patches/patch-Lib_ssl_py b/srcpkgs/python/patches/patch-Lib_ssl_py
index 5f29bfec91d..156a707172e 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/python/patches/patch-Lib_ssl_py
+++ b/srcpkgs/python/patches/patch-Lib_ssl_py
@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
-$OpenBSD: patch-Lib_ssl_py,v 1.1 2014/04/19 13:53:15 espie Exp $
---- Lib/ssl.py.orig	Sat Apr 19 15:49:44 2014
-+++ Lib/ssl.py	Sat Apr 19 15:49:58 2014
-@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ import _ssl             # if we can't import it, let t
- from _ssl import OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER, OPENSSL_VERSION_INFO, OPENSSL_VERSION
- from _ssl import SSLError
- from _ssl import CERT_NONE, CERT_OPTIONAL, CERT_REQUIRED
+--- Lib/ssl.py.orig	2014-12-10 20:17:54.474351131 +0000
++++ Lib/ssl.py	2014-12-10 20:18:04.791994596 +0000
+@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
+ from _ssl import (VERIFY_DEFAULT, VERIFY_CRL_CHECK_LEAF, VERIFY_CRL_CHECK_CHAIN,
+     VERIFY_X509_STRICT)
+ from _ssl import txt2obj as _txt2obj, nid2obj as _nid2obj
 -from _ssl import RAND_status, RAND_egd, RAND_add
 +from _ssl import RAND_status, RAND_add
- from _ssl import \
-      SSL_ERROR_ZERO_RETURN, \
-      SSL_ERROR_WANT_READ, \
+ 
+ def _import_symbols(prefix):
+     for n in dir(_ssl):
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python/patches/patch-Modules__ssl_c b/srcpkgs/python/patches/patch-Modules__ssl_c
index 2c12751b3b7..f1251fcd4d2 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/python/patches/patch-Modules__ssl_c
+++ b/srcpkgs/python/patches/patch-Modules__ssl_c
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
-$OpenBSD: patch-Modules__ssl_c,v 1.2 2014/07/11 06:59:43 rpointel Exp $
---- Modules/_ssl.c.orig	Mon Jun 30 04:05:42 2014
-+++ Modules/_ssl.c	Wed Jul  9 11:41:16 2014
-@@ -1601,32 +1601,6 @@ Returns 1 if the OpenSSL PRNG has been seeded with eno
+--- Modules/_ssl.c.orig	2014-12-10 20:20:14.442511336 +0000
++++ Modules/_ssl.c	2014-12-10 20:21:40.094552482 +0000
+@@ -3301,32 +3301,6 @@
  It is necessary to seed the PRNG with RAND_add() on some platforms before\n\
  using the ssl() function.");
  
@@ -34,11 +33,11 @@ $OpenBSD: patch-Modules__ssl_c,v 1.2 2014/07/11 06:59:43 rpointel Exp $
  #endif /* HAVE_OPENSSL_RAND */
  
  
-@@ -1640,8 +1614,6 @@ static PyMethodDef PySSL_methods[] = {
+@@ -3720,8 +3694,6 @@
  #ifdef HAVE_OPENSSL_RAND
      {"RAND_add",            PySSL_RAND_add, METH_VARARGS,
       PySSL_RAND_add_doc},
--    {"RAND_egd",            PySSL_RAND_egd, METH_O,
+-    {"RAND_egd",            PySSL_RAND_egd, METH_VARARGS,
 -     PySSL_RAND_egd_doc},
      {"RAND_status",         (PyCFunction)PySSL_RAND_status, METH_NOARGS,
       PySSL_RAND_status_doc},
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python/template b/srcpkgs/python/template
index 13d2854e562..f8ac588337b 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/python/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/python/template
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 # THIS PKG MUST BE SYNCHRONIZED WITH "srcpkgs/python-tkinter".
 #
 pkgname=python
-version=2.7.8
-revision=6
+version=2.7.9
+revision=1
 wrksrc="Python-${version}"
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
 makedepends="
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://www.python.org"
 license="PSF"
 distfiles="http://www.python.org/ftp/python/$version/Python-$version.tar.xz"
-checksum=edde10a0cb7d14e2735e682882d5b287028d1485c456758154c19573db68075a
+checksum=90d27e14ea7e03570026850e2e50ba71ad20b7eb31035aada1cf3def8f8d4916
 
 pre_configure() {
 	# Ensure that internal copies of expat, libffi and zlib are not used.