removed the last string.split() call
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py b/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
index 4a4fadd..dcc7231 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
import os
import re
-import string
import sys
from distutils.errors import DistutilsPlatformError
@@ -435,7 +434,7 @@
# relative to the srcdir, which after installation no longer makes
# sense.
python_lib = get_python_lib(standard_lib=1)
- linkerscript_path = string.split(g['LDSHARED'])[0]
+ linkerscript_path = g['LDSHARED'].split()[0]
linkerscript_name = os.path.basename(linkerscript_path)
linkerscript = os.path.join(python_lib, 'config',
linkerscript_name)