[Python-Dev] Enhancing the shutil module

[Nick Coghlan]

Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> There's one remaining external call for "zip" done if the zip module
> is not found, but I am happy to remove it and throw an exception if
> it's not found, and keep the external "zip" call on Distutils side, so
> shutil stays 100% stdlib-powered.

+1 for that approach. These changes all sound like nice additions to
shutil, and hooray for every module that gets adopted by an active
maintainer :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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