[issue5394] Distutils in trunk does not work with old Python (2.3 - 2.5)

[Akira Kitada]

New submission from Akira Kitada <akitada at gmail.com>:

As written in its README, "Distutils must remain compatible with 2.3",
but it isn't. Attached patch fixes this.

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assignee: tarek
components: Distutils
files: python23_compat.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 82920
nosy: akitada, tarek
severity: normal
status: open
title: Distutils in trunk does not work with old Python (2.3 - 2.5)
type: compile error
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file13211/python23_compat.diff

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