Fix distutils byte-compilation to comply with PEP 3147 (#11254).
Patch by Jeff Ramnani. Tested with -B, -O and -OO.
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 3dc3de1..0fd2192 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -722,6 +722,7 @@
Brian Quinlan
Anders Qvist
Burton Radons
+Jeff Ramnani
Brodie Rao
Antti Rasinen
Sridhar Ratnakumar
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index e9555b3..a55fcb3 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@
Library
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+- Issue #11254: Teach distutils to compile .pyc and .pyo files in
+ PEP 3147-compliant __pycache__ directories.
+
- Issue #7367: Fix pkgutil.walk_paths to skip directories whose
contents cannot be read.