#2834: Change re module semantics, so that str and bytes mixing is forbidden,
and str (unicode) patterns get full unicode matching by default. The re.ASCII
flag is also introduced to ask for ASCII matching instead.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/emxccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/emxccompiler.py
index d9ee82d..62a4c5b 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/emxccompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/emxccompiler.py
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@
out = os.popen(gcc_exe + ' -dumpversion','r')
out_string = out.read()
out.close()
- result = re.search('(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)',out_string)
+ result = re.search('(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)', out_string, re.ASCII)
if result:
gcc_version = StrictVersion(result.group(1))
else: