reverted distutils its 3.1 state. All new work is now happening in disutils2, and distutils is now feature-frozen.

module which is the largest module in the stdlib.

of the script being traced.  Patch by Eli Bendersky.

with EOFError.
(this is only an added test, but 2.x will get a fix too)

Remove outdated mention of deprecated functions in the string module - they have been removed in 3.x.

Bendersky for the patch.

is wrong when PY_LDFLAGS is not empty.

The bug was caused by LDSHARED getting expanded *before* sysconfig
renamed PY_LDSHARED (and simular values) to names without a PY_
prefix.

The patch tries to maintain the intended behaviour of allowing users
to set LDFLAGS in the environment and have that affect the build.

Without this patch a universal build on OSX cannot build universal
(fat binary) extensions.

the parameters.  (This is jjlee's issue3704.patch ported to py3k)

and executable specified.

with the expansion of LDSHARED when accessing that value
through sysconfig.

The problem is probably caused by the 9189.

A fix will follow shortly.

signed/unsigned chars or on integers directly derived from those. In all
cases, it could be replaced by a simple cast to (unsigned char). Reasons
for the change:

  a) Make the comment more explicit.

  b) If char is unsigned, the cast is optimized away.

  c) If char is unsigned, gcc emits spurious "array subscript
     has type 'char'" warnings.

Add configure check for a bug with gcc soft floating-point and subnormals, to help debug issue 8265.

#9279: remove the pdb.doc file, put its contents in pdb.__doc__.  Also sync this and the pdb docs, introduce a new directive for pdb commands and a role to link to them.

char is unsigned.  Thanks Stefan Krah for the patch.

python when they contain instances of old-style classes.

In that case, do not attempt to parse stderr output.

Patch and test by Tony Nelson.

of the random module being around.