Test methods shouldn't have docstrings.  They screw up the output when running regrtest in verbose mode.

Thanks for the patch!

This patch failed when running under regrtest (./python -E -tt ./Lib/test/regrtest.py test_distuils) due to output from the distutils command.  I just replaced stdout and everything worked.

I modified it a bit (made test method name more descriptive and simplified logic a bit).  Let me know if I screwed anything up.  This still needs to be backported.  I'll do it tomorrow unless someone else gets to it first.

Committed revision 55731. (2.6)