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  r72671 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-05-15 19:27:30 +0200 (ven., 15 mai 2009) | 3 lines

  Fix bootstrapping by removing uses of the copy module in distutils
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diff --git a/Lib/distutils/dist.py b/Lib/distutils/dist.py
index 7c30e88..91adc4d 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/dist.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/dist.py
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 import sys, os, re
-from copy import copy
 
 try:
     import warnings
@@ -521,7 +520,7 @@
         # merge it in with the global negative aliases.
         negative_opt = self.negative_opt
         if hasattr(cmd_class, 'negative_opt'):
-            negative_opt = copy(negative_opt)
+            negative_opt = negative_opt.copy()
             negative_opt.update(cmd_class.negative_opt)
 
         # Check for help_options in command class.  They have a different