[Python-Dev] Making distutils string-free?

[Neal Norwitz]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> > > I don't know if the xml/ codebase has a backwards compat requirement.
> >
> > The current requirement is that it ought to be 2.0-compatible (1.5.2
> > compatibility was just dropped). So using string methods is fine;
> > using type builtins is not.
> 
> Great!  It looks like there are only a few places where the string
> module is used: 3 in minidom.py, 2 in sax/_init__.py, 3 in
> sax/expatreader.py.  Neal?

That's what I found, checkin coming soon.

Neal