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It would be a great deal of effort to make separate bug reports 
(I would have to individually test every Python feature by 
hand), and it wouldn't gain anything.
The problem is that OpenBSD is buggy, has been since 
version 2.0 and still is in the very latest CVS. For example, if 
you define _XOPEN_SOURCE (its value doesn't make any 
difference, just if it is defined) then there is absolutely no way 
to get the select(), fd_set, etc, they are simply not available 
in any header file. You can't use select() in a C program that 
#defines _XOPEN_SOURCE.
I don't see why you say there is "no way" to withdraw the 
definition of _XOPEN_SOURCE - instead of making the 
addition of _XOPEN_SOURCE to the header file 
unconditional, simply detect OpenBSD in ./configure and 
don't define it in that case. Why is that difficult?
Why is _XOPEN_SOURCE being defined anyway? Because 
it breaks everything so badly on OpenBSD, and nobody has 
noticed this before, I am suspecting that almost no programs 
out there except Python define it. This makes it likely to 
break things on many different platforms.