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Author serhiy.storchaka
Recipients eric.araujo, serhiy.storchaka, tarek
Date 2015-11-20.22:13:34
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The distutils package is used in test_shutil to search and run external archivers. But using distutils can have side effects (see issue25607).

Proposed patch replaces distutils with standard functions for searching executables and running command, shutil.which() and subprocess.check_call().
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Date User Action Args
2015-11-20 22:13:35serhiy.storchakasetrecipients: + serhiy.storchaka, tarek, eric.araujo
2015-11-20 22:13:35serhiy.storchakasetmessageid: <1448057615.39.0.634950011826.issue25686@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2015-11-20 22:13:35serhiy.storchakalinkissue25686 messages
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