Changing the values requires forking and patching, which is intentional. Simply rebuilding from source does not change the implementation enough to justify changing these values - they would still be `cpython` and compatible with existing `.pyc` files. But people who maintain forks are better served by being able to easily override these values in a place that can be forward-ported reliably.
Replacing the deprecated method "random.choose" to "random.choice" was technically not part of the original issue. However, it was discussed in the talk page and involved one of the files being moved. I assumed this was too minor to justify the creation of a separate issue.
Also, I added my name to the contributors list in Misc/ACKS. This will be my third PR to cpython, forgot to do it in the previous ones.
https://bugs.python.org/issue19696
