Luckily version 0.83.4 is released which *does*. I will check in 0.83.4 shortly, but it will need to go stable before python-2.6 does.
0.83.4.1 bugfix was released: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=958332 but ebuild hasn't been updated.
This bug was fixed long time ago.