Remove functions in string module that are also string methods.  Also remove:
 * all calls to functions in the string module (except maketrans)
 * everything from stropmodule except for maketrans() which is still used
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py b/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
index 220b033..ea2e059 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 
 import os
 import re
-import string
 import sys
 
 from .errors import DistutilsPlatformError
@@ -261,7 +260,7 @@
         m = _variable_rx.match(line)
         if m:
             n, v = m.group(1, 2)
-            v = string.strip(v)
+            v = v.strip()
             if "$" in v:
                 notdone[n] = v
             else:
@@ -295,7 +294,7 @@
                     else:
                         try: value = int(value)
                         except ValueError:
-                            done[name] = string.strip(value)
+                            done[name] = value.strip()
                         else:
                             done[name] = value
                         del notdone[name]
@@ -399,7 +398,7 @@
             # relative to the srcdir, which after installation no longer makes
             # sense.
             python_lib = get_python_lib(standard_lib=1)
-            linkerscript_path = string.split(g['LDSHARED'])[0]
+            linkerscript_path = g['LDSHARED'].split()[0]
             linkerscript_name = os.path.basename(linkerscript_path)
             linkerscript = os.path.join(python_lib, 'config',
                                         linkerscript_name)