[Python-Dev] Making distutils string-free?

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> distutils has to maintain 1.5.2 compatibility. Please don't change
    >> anything which would cause this to break.

    Guido> Really?  Why?  Isn't the existing standalone distutils
    Guido> distribution good enough?

Porting changes between the in-core and standalone versions of distutils
would be more difficult if the former used string methods and the latter
used the string module.

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