I am somewhat uneasy about backporting this to Python 2.7 because changing the return type of `SomeDateTime + timedelta` could be seen as a breaking change. I have sent a message to the datetime-SIG mailing list about this for more visibility. If it is decided that this is just a bugfix, I'm OK with creating a backport for 2.7 (provided that there's nothing so different about 2.7 that the fix becomes much bigger).