Use "backslashreplace" instead of "unicode-escape".  It is not
implementation depended and escapes only non-encodable characters.

Also simplify the code.

In distutils.command.install, replace "pliant children" (previously,
it was "pliant slaves") with "helpers".

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This caused installation errors in some cases on Windows.
Patch by Julien Malard.

* Replace "master process" with "parent process"
* Replace "master option mappings" with "main option mappings"
* Replace "master pattern object" with "main pattern object"
* ssl: replace "master" with "server"
* And some other similar changes

distutils.spawn.find_executable() now falls back on os.defpath if the
PATH environment variable is not set.

bpo-32430: Rename Modules/Setup.dist to Modules/Setup

Remove the necessity to copy the former manually to the latter when updating the local source tree.

Patch by Bo Bayles.

CRT v142 is binary compatible with CRT v140.

* Rather than raise TypeError, warn and call list() on the value.

* Fix tests, revise NEWS and whatsnew text.

* Revise documentation, a string is okay as well.

* Ensure 'requires' and 'obsoletes' are real lists.

* Test that requires and obsoletes are turned to lists.

Revert distutils changes of the commit
696b501cd11dc429a0f661adeb598bfaf89e4112 and remove the realm
variable.

* distutils.config: Use the PyPIRCCommand.realm attribute if set
* turtledemo: wait until macOS osascript command completes to not
  create a zombie process
* Tools/scripts/treesync.py: declare 'default_answer' and
  'create_files' as globals to modify them with the command line
  arguments. Previously, -y, -n, -f and -a options had no effect.

flake8 warning: "F841 local variable 'p' is assigned to but never
used".

The Distribution class now explicitly raises an
exception when 'classifiers', 'keywords' and
'platforms' fields are not specified as a list.

* Run gzip with separate command line options (Android understands  '-f9' as the name of a file).
* Creation of a hard link is controled by SELinux on Android.

kB (*kilo* byte) unit means 1000 bytes, whereas KiB ("kibibyte")
means 1024 bytes. KB was misused: replace kB or KB with KiB when
appropriate.

Same change for MB and GB which become MiB and GiB.

Change the output of Tools/iobench/iobench.py.

Round also the size of the documentation from 5.5 MB to 5 MiB.

We stop support this OS in 2007 with commit
19fab761b71a1687aee3415db3a937b5ce31975d. Let's finish.

It was mostly removed long ago.

See PEP 11.

* Replaced list(<generator expression>) with list comprehension
* Replaced dict(<generator expression>) with dict comprehension
* Replaced set(<list literal>) with set literal
* Replaced builtin func(<list comprehension>) with func(<generator
  expression>) when supported (e.g. any(), all(), tuple(), min(), &
  max())

compiled out-of-tree (builddir != srcdir). (see also bpo-15366)

The AST_H_DIR variable was removed from Makefile.pre.in by the commit
a5c62a8e9f0de6c4133825a5710984a3cd5e102b (bpo-23404).

AST_H_DIR was hardcoded to "Include", so replace the removed variable
by its content.

Remove also ASDLGEN variable from sysconfig example since this
variable was also removed.

BuildExtTestCase of test_distutils now uses support.temp_cwd() in
setUp() to remove files created in the current working in all
BuildExtTestCase unit tests, not only test_build_ext().

Move also tearDown() just after setUp().

test_build_ext() of test_distutils now uses support.temp_cwd() to
prevent the creation of a pdb file in the current working directory
on Windows.

It has been documented as unused since 6c6844a2fa30 (2000-05-25)

Patch by Eric N. Vander Weele.