(This one was trivial -- no actual string. references in it!)

   Uche Ogbuji

the resulting path is empty.

building.

prevent binding for str from masking use of builtin str in nested
function.

(This is the only case I found in the standard library where a local
shadows a global or builtin.  There may be others, but the regression
test doesn't catch them.)

    Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py(build_ext.finalize_options): Add
    Cygwin specific code to append Python's library directory to the
    extension's list of library directories.

    (build_ext.get_libraries): Add Cygwin specific code to append Python's
    (import) library to the extension's list of libraries.

  This patch adds support for Cygwin to util.get_platform(). A Cygwin
  specific case is needed due to the format of Cygwin's uname command,
  which contains '/' characters.

sys.prefix + 'config/Makefile'. When building Python for the first
time, these files aren't there, so the files from the build tree have
to be used instead; this file adds an entry point for specifying that
the build tree files should be used.  (Perhaps 'set_python_build' should
should be preceded with an underscore?)

for done[n] can be integers as well as strings, but the code
concatenates them with strings (fixed by adding a str()) and calls
string.strip() on them (fixed by rearranging the logic)

(Presumably this wasn't noticed previously because parse_makefile()
was only called on Modules/Makefile, which contains no integer-valued
variables.)

produce a list of unique filenames:
    "While attempting to build an RPM using distutils on Python 2.0,
    rpm complained about duplicate files.  The following patch fixed
    that problem.

    prevent creating files such as build/lib.whatever/Modules/foo.o
    when given a source filename such as Modules/foo.c.

to the Distutils-SIG and archived at
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2000-November/001755.html

   os.pathsep

    DISTUTILS_DEBUG set"

Use != instead of <> since <> is documented as "obsolescent".
Use "is" and "is not" when comparing with None or type objects.

use it to generate a dialog for users to specify the command-line (because
providing a command-line with MacPython is so awkward).

an 'other_libraries()' parameter.

we actually installed modules to a directory in sys.path.

This should close SF bug (patch)
http://sourceforge.net/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=101844&group_id=5470

about how it would be nice to write absolute paths to the temporary
byte-compilation script, but this doesn't work because it screws up the
trailing-slash trickery done to 'prefix' in build_py's 'byte_compile()'
method.

Fixed to use 'execute()' instead of 'os.remove()' to remove the temporary
script: now it doesn't blow up in dry-run mode!

by default (since compiling at install time works just fine).  Details:
  - added 'compile' and 'optimize' options
  - added 'byte_compile()' method
  - changed 'get_outputs()' so it includes bytecode files
A lot of the code added is very similar to code in install_lib.py;
would be nice to factor it out further.

instruct the "install_lib" command from the command-line.

choice between (compile, no-compile) * (optimize=0, optimize=1,
optimize=2).  Details:
  - added --no-compile option to complement --compile, which has
    been there for ages
  - changed --optimize (which never worked) to a value option, which
    expects 0, 1, or 2
  - renamed 'bytecompile()' method to 'byte_compile()', and beefed
    it up to handle both 'compile' and 'optimize' options
  - fix '_bytecode_filenames()' to respect the new options

pure Python modules to compile.

blowing up.