Reformat docstrings.
Standardize whitespace in function calls.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/dep_util.py b/Lib/distutils/dep_util.py
index 97812ed..4b93ed0 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/dep_util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/dep_util.py
@@ -14,14 +14,13 @@
 
 def newer (source, target):
     """Return true if 'source' exists and is more recently modified than
-       'target', or if 'source' exists and 'target' doesn't.  Return
-       false if both exist and 'target' is the same age or younger than
-       'source'.  Raise DistutilsFileError if 'source' does not
-       exist."""
-
-    if not os.path.exists (source):
+    'target', or if 'source' exists and 'target' doesn't.  Return false if
+    both exist and 'target' is the same age or younger than 'source'.
+    Raise DistutilsFileError if 'source' does not exist.
+    """
+    if not os.path.exists(source):
         raise DistutilsFileError, "file '%s' does not exist" % source
-    if not os.path.exists (target):
+    if not os.path.exists(target):
         return 1
 
     from stat import ST_MTIME
@@ -35,20 +34,20 @@
 
 def newer_pairwise (sources, targets):
     """Walk two filename lists in parallel, testing if each source is newer
-       than its corresponding target.  Return a pair of lists (sources,
-       targets) where source is newer than target, according to the
-       semantics of 'newer()'."""
-
-    if len (sources) != len (targets):
+    than its corresponding target.  Return a pair of lists (sources,
+    targets) where source is newer than target, according to the semantics
+    of 'newer()'.
+    """
+    if len(sources) != len(targets):
         raise ValueError, "'sources' and 'targets' must be same length"
 
     # build a pair of lists (sources, targets) where  source is newer
     n_sources = []
     n_targets = []
-    for i in range (len (sources)):
-        if newer (sources[i], targets[i]):
-            n_sources.append (sources[i])
-            n_targets.append (targets[i])
+    for i in range(len(sources)):
+        if newer(sources[i], targets[i]):
+            n_sources.append(sources[i])
+            n_targets.append(targets[i])
 
     return (n_sources, n_targets)
 
@@ -56,20 +55,20 @@
 
 
 def newer_group (sources, target, missing='error'):
-    """Return true if 'target' is out-of-date with respect to any
-       file listed in 'sources'.  In other words, if 'target' exists and
-       is newer than every file in 'sources', return false; otherwise
-       return true.  'missing' controls what we do when a source file is
-       missing; the default ("error") is to blow up with an OSError from
-       inside 'stat()'; if it is "ignore", we silently drop any missing
-       source files; if it is "newer", any missing source files make us
-       assume that 'target' is out-of-date (this is handy in "dry-run"
-       mode: it'll make you pretend to carry out commands that wouldn't
-       work because inputs are missing, but that doesn't matter because
-       you're not actually going to run the commands)."""
-
+    """Return true if 'target' is out-of-date with respect to any file
+    listed in 'sources'.  In other words, if 'target' exists and is newer
+    than every file in 'sources', return false; otherwise return true.
+    'missing' controls what we do when a source file is missing; the
+    default ("error") is to blow up with an OSError from inside 'stat()';
+    if it is "ignore", we silently drop any missing source files; if it is
+    "newer", any missing source files make us assume that 'target' is
+    out-of-date (this is handy in "dry-run" mode: it'll make you pretend to
+    carry out commands that wouldn't work because inputs are missing, but
+    that doesn't matter because you're not actually going to run the
+    commands).
+    """
     # If the target doesn't even exist, then it's definitely out-of-date.
-    if not os.path.exists (target):
+    if not os.path.exists(target):
         return 1
    
     # Otherwise we have to find out the hard way: if *any* source file
@@ -77,9 +76,9 @@
     # we can immediately return true.  If we fall through to the end
     # of the loop, then 'target' is up-to-date and we return false.
     from stat import ST_MTIME
-    target_mtime = os.stat (target)[ST_MTIME]
+    target_mtime = os.stat(target)[ST_MTIME]
     for source in sources:
-        if not os.path.exists (source):
+        if not os.path.exists(source):
             if missing == 'error':      # blow up when we stat() the file
                 pass                    
             elif missing == 'ignore':   # missing source dropped from 
@@ -102,13 +101,13 @@
 def make_file (src, dst, func, args,
                verbose=0, update_message=None, noupdate_message=None):
     """Makes 'dst' from 'src' (both filenames) by calling 'func' with
-       'args', but only if it needs to: i.e. if 'dst' does not exist or
-       'src' is newer than 'dst'."""
-
-    if newer (src, dst):
+    'args', but only if it needs to: i.e. if 'dst' does not exist or 'src'
+    is newer than 'dst'.
+    """
+    if newer(src, dst):
         if verbose and update_message:
             print update_message
-        apply (func, args)
+        apply(func, args)
     else:
         if verbose and noupdate_message:
             print noupdate_message