[Patches] Please review before applying

[Fred Gansevles]

> 
>     Guido> Wanted: reviews for this patch!  It seems usable but (as the
>     Guido> author admits) needs another careful eye before I can apply it.
> 
> I don't have time to review it, but I recall thinking when it went by that
> distutils might (not "will", "might") be affected by this.  I know Greg is
> trying to make sure distutils will still work with 1.5.1.  It's worth
> spending a few seconds considering, especially if any of Fred's patches are
> to the distutils subdirectory.

I only patched the Lib/*.py files, no files from:

    Lib/distutils
    Lib/dos-8x3
    Lib/encodings
    Lib/lib-old
    Lib/lib-stdwin
    Lib/lib-tk
    Lib/plat-aix3
    Lib/plat-aix4
    Lib/plat-beos
    Lib/plat-freebsd2
    Lib/plat-freebsd3
    Lib/plat-generic
    Lib/plat-irix5
    Lib/plat-irix6
    Lib/plat-linux1
    Lib/plat-linux2
    Lib/plat-netbsd1
    Lib/plat-next3
    Lib/plat-sunos4
    Lib/plat-sunos5
    Lib/plat-win
    Lib/site-packages
    Lib/test

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