Merged revisions 68167,68276,68292-68293,68344 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r68167 | vinay.sajip | 2009-01-02 12:53:04 -0600 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Minor documentation changes relating to NullHandler, the module used for handlers and references to ConfigParser.
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  r68276 | tarek.ziade | 2009-01-03 18:04:49 -0600 (Sat, 03 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  fixed #1702551: distutils sdist was not pruning VCS directories under win32
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  r68292 | skip.montanaro | 2009-01-04 04:36:58 -0600 (Sun, 04 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  If user configures --without-gcc give preference to $CC instead of blindly
  assuming the compiler will be "cc".
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  r68293 | tarek.ziade | 2009-01-04 04:37:52 -0600 (Sun, 04 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  using clearer syntax
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  r68344 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2009-01-05 13:43:35 -0600 (Mon, 05 Jan 2009) | 7 lines

  Fix #4846 (Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE causes linker error) by moving the declaration
  into the extern "C" section.

  Add a few more comments and apply some minor edits to make the file contents
  fit the original structure again.
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diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py b/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py
index b29fc64..96fb7fa 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py
@@ -4,7 +4,10 @@
 
 __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
-import sys, os
+import os
+import string
+import sys
+from types import *
 from glob import glob
 from distutils.core import Command
 from distutils import dir_util, dep_util, file_util, archive_util
@@ -332,9 +335,18 @@
 
         self.filelist.exclude_pattern(None, prefix=build.build_base)
         self.filelist.exclude_pattern(None, prefix=base_dir)
-        self.filelist.exclude_pattern(r'(^|/)(RCS|CVS|\.svn|\.hg|\.git|\.bzr|_darcs)/.*', is_regex=1)
 
-    def write_manifest(self):
+        if sys.platform == 'win32':
+            seps = r'/|\\'
+        else:
+            seps = '/'
+
+        vcs_dirs = ['RCS', 'CVS', r'\.svn', r'\.hg', r'\.git', r'\.bzr',
+                    '_darcs']
+        vcs_ptrn = r'(^|%s)(%s)(%s).*' % (seps, '|'.join(vcs_dirs), seps)
+        self.filelist.exclude_pattern(vcs_ptrn, is_regex=1)
+
+    def write_manifest (self):
         """Write the file list in 'self.filelist' (presumably as filled in
         by 'add_defaults()' and 'read_template()') to the manifest file
         named by 'self.manifest'.