[Python-Dev] distutils.sys: None in sys.modules

[Ka-Ping Yee]

When i import distutils.util, i get:

    >>> sys.modules.keys()
    ['os', 'distutils.sys', 'distutils.os', 'exceptions', 'posix', 'distutils.spawn', 're', 'sre_constants', 'distutils.errors', 'string', 'signal', 'sre', 'posixpath', 'sre_parse', '_sre', 'os.path', 'distutils.string', 'readline', 'distutils.util', 'distutils.re', '__main__', 'distutils.dep_util', 'types', 'sys', '__builtin__', 'site', 'UserDict', 'distutils', 'sre_compile', 'copy_reg', 'stat', 'distutils.distutils']

What are 'distutils.sys', 'distutils.os', 'distutils.string',
'distutils.re', 'distutils.distutils' doing in there?  (The
sys.modules dictionary maps all these keys to None.)


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