Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

Good catch! Here is a patch which fixes this issue too.

> (1) stop calling the user-defined functions and behave similarly to most 
> other built-in types;

This is done in 3.x.

> (2) stop trying to mutate that poor string in-place and always just create a 
> new one.

The patch can be simplified by removing 6 lines. But this will slow down 
integer formatting by few (about 2-7) percents in worst case. Not a big deal.

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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file37215/issue11145_3.patch

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