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I agree that this is an annoying bug, and I'm glad that it doesn't occur in the 27-maint branch.
I won't close this issue yet though, I'd prefer to add a unittest that demonstrates the problem in 2.7.0 and shows that the problem is fixed afterwords.
Basically something like this:
 pid = os.fork() 
 if pid == 0:
 # child
 import platform
 import urllib
 urllib.get_proxies()
 os._exit(0)
 else:
 # parent
 exit = sys.waitpid(pid, 0)
 self.assertEquals(exit, 0)