Installing module: import error "No module named 'new'"

[Skip Montanaro]

    Sheila> I'm a bit leery of using modules that require stuff like this
    Sheila> that isn't default. I want to be able to distribute my code, and
    Sheila> if most people are going to have "new" available to them, then a
    Sheila> module that uses it isn't easy to distribute.

I believe that since 2.1 setup.py builds the new module by default, so all
recent interpreters are toting some extra heavy artillery.  ;-)

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