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  r81359 | victor.stinner | 2010-05-19 19:00:07 +0200 (mer., 19 mai 2010) | 4 lines

  Issue #8663: distutils.log emulates backslashreplace error handler. Fix
  compilation in a non-ASCII directory if stdout encoding is ASCII (eg. if stdout
  is not a TTY).
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  r81360 | victor.stinner | 2010-05-19 19:11:19 +0200 (mer., 19 mai 2010) | 5 lines

  regrtest.py: call replace_stdout() before the first call to print()

  print("==  ", os.getcwd()) fails if the current working directory is not ASCII
  whereas sys.stdout encoding is ASCII.
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  r81361 | victor.stinner | 2010-05-19 19:15:50 +0200 (mer., 19 mai 2010) | 2 lines

  Oops, add the new test_log.py for distutils test suite (missing part of r81359)
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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 Library
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+- Issue #8663: distutils.log emulates backslashreplace error handler. Fix
+  compilation in a non-ASCII directory if stdout encoding is ASCII (eg. if
+  stdout is not a TTY).
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 - Issue #8688: Distutils now recalculates MANIFEST everytime.
 
 - Issue #5099: subprocess.Popen.__del__ no longer references global objects