We're long past worrying about Python versions older than 1.5.2;
remove old compatibility definition of os.path.abspath().
diff --git a/Doc/tools/mkhowto b/Doc/tools/mkhowto
index e204802..8f506c5 100755
--- a/Doc/tools/mkhowto
+++ b/Doc/tools/mkhowto
@@ -46,17 +46,6 @@
import sys
-if not hasattr(os.path, "abspath"):
- # Python 1.5.1 or earlier
- def abspath(path):
- """Return an absolute path."""
- if not os.path.isabs(path):
- path = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), path)
- return os.path.normpath(path)
-
- os.path.abspath = abspath
-
-
MYDIR = os.path.abspath(sys.path[0])
TOPDIR = os.path.dirname(MYDIR)