The tests now pass all combinations of -O/-OO and -B.  See also #7071
and #6292 for previous variations on the same theme.

test_versionpredicate needs a skip when sys.flags.optimize is true, but
I don’t know how to make that work with a DocTestSuite.

non-ASCII scripts. Open and write the script in binary mode, but ensure that
the shebang is decodable from UTF-8 and from the encoding of the script.

longer fails if zlib is not installed. Instead, the zipfile.ZIP_STORED
compression is used to create the ZipFile. Patch by Natalia B. Bidart.

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The missing NEWS entries correspond to changes that were made before 3.1.3, but
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  Make sure each test can be run standalone (./python Lib/distutils/tests/x.py)
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  Add missing NEWS entry for a fix committed by Senthil.

  All recent modifications to distutils should now be covered in NEWS.
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  r86340 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-08 22:48:23 +0100 (lun., 08 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  This was actually fixed for the previous alpha.
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  r87271 | eric.araujo | 2010-12-15 20:09:58 +0100 (mer., 15 déc. 2010) | 2 lines

  Improve trace documentation (#9264).  Patch by Eli Bendersky.
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  Use nested method directives, rewrap long lines, fix whitespace.
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  Fix typo in superclass method name
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  r87280 | eric.araujo | 2010-12-15 22:07:22 +0100 (mer., 15 déc. 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix build_ext with VS 8.0.  Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto (#9558).
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  r87277 | eric.araujo | 2010-12-15 21:26:30 +0100 (mer., 15 déc. 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix wrong name in docstring and doc (#10693).  Original patch by Eli Bendersky.
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  r86596 | ezio.melotti | 2010-11-20 21:04:17 +0200 (Sat, 20 Nov 2010) | 1 line

  #9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
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  r86601 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-20 20:35:27 +0100 (sam., 20 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix two NameErrors in distutils (#10407)
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  Add entry for r86601
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  r86438 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-12 23:25:23 +0100 (ven., 12 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  And now for something completely different: Finish fixing #10252 again.
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  r86274 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 16:57:52 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Correct the fix for #10252: Popen objects have no close method.
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  Fix #10252 again (hopefully definitely).  Patch by Brian Curtin.
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  r86244 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 05:48:05 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 3 lines

  Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils.  Patch by Arfrever on #9281.
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  r86223 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 00:51:56 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Always close files in distutils code and tests (#10252).
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  Add missing entry for r86223.
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  Of course, I forgot one file in r86223.
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  Also close file descriptors from os.popen and subprocess.Popen
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  r82805 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-11 11:42:10 +0200 (So, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  #7935: cross-reference to ast.literal_eval() from eval() docs.
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  r82806 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-11 12:22:44 +0200 (So, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  #9223: link to Command class reference, and move Command interface docs nearer to class docs.
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  r83523 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 14:06:18 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #9209 and #7781: fix two crashes in pstats interactive browser.
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  #9428: fix running scripts from profile/cProfile with their own name and the right namespace.  Same fix as for trace.py in #1690103.
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  Get rid of spurious "threading" entries in trace output.
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  r83526 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 14:40:22 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  Fix softspace relic.
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  r83527 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 14:48:46 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #3821: beginnings of a trace.py unittest.
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  r83536 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 19:49:25 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #8578: mention danger of not incref'ing weak referenced object.
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  #6928: fix class docs w.r.t. new metaclasses.
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  r83542 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 20:56:54 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  Move test_SimpleHTTPServer into test_httpservers.
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  r83546 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:16:34 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #7973: Fix distutils options spelling.
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  r83547 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:19:26 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #7386: add example that shows that trailing path separators are stripped.
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  r83548 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:23:34 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #8172: how does one use a property?
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  r83550 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:32:43 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #9451: strengthen warning about __*__ special name usage.
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  r83551 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:35:06 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  Remove XXX comment that was displayed.
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  r83552 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:36:36 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #9438: clarify that constant names also cannot be assigned as attributes.
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  r83553 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:39:17 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  Remove redundant information.
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  r83554 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:43:05 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #7280: note about nasmw.exe.
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  r83555 | georg.brandl | 2010-08-02 21:44:48 +0200 (Mo, 02 Aug 2010) | 1 line

  #8861: remove unused variable.
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  #8648: document UTF-7 codec functions.
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  #9087: update json docstrings -- unicode and long do not exist anymore.
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  r85197 | tarek.ziade | 2010-10-03 16:18:09 +0200 (Sun, 03 Oct 2010) | 1 line

  Fixed #8980: distutils.command.check was failing w/ docutils installed
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  r84889 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-09-19 08:39:54 +0530 (Sun, 19 Sep 2010) | 3 lines

  Update the test_distutils mode test to test with umask value properly.
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  r84871 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-09-18 08:25:03 +0530 (Sat, 18 Sep 2010) | 3 lines

  Skip the distutils mode test on Windows OS.
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  r84861 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-09-17 22:05:37 +0530 (Fri, 17 Sep 2010) | 3 lines

  Fix Issue2236: Distutils' mkpath implementation ignoring the "mode" parameter
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  r84765 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2010-09-13 16:18:30 +0900 | 2 lines

  get_build_version() is needed even where sys.platform != "win32".
  Try to fix buildbot error in other way.
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  r84753 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2010-09-13 07:55:40 +0900 | 1 line

  Issue #9313: Skips test_remove_visual_c_ref on old MSVC.
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  Issue #9313: Use unittest.skipUnless to skip old MSVC.
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  r84711 | eric.araujo | 2010-09-11 17:28:56 +0200 (sam., 11 sept. 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix typo in option name
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  r84680 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-09-10 21:44:44 +0200 (ven., 10 sept. 2010) | 4 lines

  Issue #941346: Improve the build process under AIX and allow Python to
  be built as a shared library.  Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
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  r84614 | eric.araujo | 2010-09-08 02:00:45 +0200 (mer., 08 sept. 2010) | 5 lines

  Follow-up to #9199: Fix str.join use, add newlines.

  Thanks to Konrad Delong for writing a test for upload_docs
  --show-response in distutils2, letting me catch my mistake.
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  r84611 | eric.araujo | 2010-09-08 01:08:57 +0200 (mer., 08 sept. 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix incorrect use of Command.announce (#9199)
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  r84608 | eric.araujo | 2010-09-08 00:11:52 +0200 (mer., 08 sept. 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix eon-old bug in build_clib options (#1718574)
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  r83993 | eric.araujo | 2010-08-14 04:30:34 +0200 (sam., 14 août 2010) | 2 lines

  Use a marker in generated MANIFEST files, don't touch files without it. Fixes #8688.
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  r83371 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 23:54:24 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  #8292: Fix three instances of truth tests on return values of filter() (which is always true in Python 3).
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  #8230: make Lib/test/sortperf.py run on Python 3.
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  #6026: skip test_get_file_list when zlib is not available.
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