Some bugfixes that are in Python 2.7 disappeared from Python 3.x because a bunch of Distutils work was reverted. Jason Coombs and I spent last Sunday figuring out what got rolled back; see http://bugs.python.org/issue19544 for details, and for links to the 5 bugfixes that were lost. Two of the five have already been fixed on the 3.4 'default' branch. Two of the issues have patches against 3.4 that need review. Please review these patches! http://bugs.python.org/issue1180 http://bugs.python.org/issue6516 3.4beta1 is due in roughly two weeks, so I'd like to get at least one review of these patches before I apply them. The fifth issue, <http://bugs.python.org/issue6466>, is a code cleanup to remove some code duplication. Jason and I were going to leave this out, because it's mostly a code-tidiness issue and not worth much risk (no one seems to have run into the discrepancy between 2.7 and 3.4 in practice). OTOH, the changes *are* a difference; perhaps making 2.7 and 3.4 match is worth the risk. If someone wants to apply that issue in 3.4 as well, or argue for doing so, please do! Otherwise, I don't intend to work on #6466. --amk