Drop the 'extend()' function -- old 1.5.1 compatibility hack that
wasn't actually used anywhere.
Drop the "from xxx_util import*" backwards compability hacks.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/util.py b/Lib/distutils/util.py
index 37cd4b5..96266d2 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py
@@ -11,26 +11,6 @@
from distutils.errors import *
from distutils.spawn import spawn
-# for backwards compatibility:
-from distutils.file_util import *
-from distutils.dir_util import *
-from distutils.dep_util import *
-from distutils.archive_util import *
-
-
-# More backwards compatibility hacks
-def extend (list, new_list):
- """Appends the list 'new_list' to 'list', just like the 'extend()'
- list method does in Python 1.5.2 -- but this works on earlier
- versions of Python too."""
-
- if hasattr (list, 'extend'):
- list.extend (new_list)
- else:
- list[len(list):] = new_list
-
-# extend ()
-
def get_platform ():
"""Return a string (suitable for tacking onto directory names) that