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Thanks for the report and patch. Has this bug been a problem for existing projects? Would you have links?
> Looks like this should've been done against the py3k branch instead.
Yes, patches should apply to the py3k branch, or to distutils2. More guidelines at http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/FixingBugs
In this case, Tarek will have to decide whether this is a suitable bugfix for distutils or whether it’s for distutils2 only. There is a feature freeze in distutils, so we try to change the code only to fix proved bugs, in the less pervasive way possible, and with regression tests.
> Perhaps there is a better way to do this under py3k? Or it's handled already?
In the absence of a test (unit test, instructions to reproduce or script), it’s hard to tell.