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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r68292 | skip.montanaro | 2009-01-04 11:36:58 +0100 (So, 04 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  If user configures --without-gcc give preference to $CC instead of blindly
  assuming the compiler will be "cc".
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  r68344 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2009-01-05 20:43:35 +0100 (Mo, 05 Jan 2009) | 7 lines

  Fix #4846 (Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE causes linker error) by moving the declaration
  into the extern "C" section.

  Add a few more comments and apply some minor edits to make the file contents
  fit the original structure again.
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  r68361 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-01-06 19:34:08 +0100 (Di, 06 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Use shutil.rmtree rather than os.rmdir.
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  r68378 | mark.dickinson | 2009-01-07 18:48:33 +0100 (Mi, 07 Jan 2009) | 2 lines

  Issue #4869: clarify documentation for random.expovariate.
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  r68424 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-09 03:53:35 +0100 (Fr, 09 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  specify what -3 warnings are about
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  r68426 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-09 04:03:05 +0100 (Fr, 09 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  fix spelling
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  r68429 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-09 04:05:14 +0100 (Fr, 09 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  add -3 to manpage
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  r68430 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-09 04:07:27 +0100 (Fr, 09 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  be more specific in -3 option help
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  r68450 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2009-01-09 17:47:07 +0100 (Fr, 09 Jan 2009) | 3 lines

  Fix issue 4884, preventing a crash in the socket code when python is compiled
  with llvm-gcc and run with a glibc <2.10.
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  r68457 | kristjan.jonsson | 2009-01-09 21:10:59 +0100 (Fr, 09 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Issue 3677:  Fix import from UNC paths on Windows.
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  r68480 | vinay.sajip | 2009-01-10 14:38:04 +0100 (Sa, 10 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Minor documentation changes cross-referencing NullHandler to the documentation on configuring logging in a library.
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  r68481 | vinay.sajip | 2009-01-10 14:42:04 +0100 (Sa, 10 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Corrected an incorrect self-reference.
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  r68493 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-10 18:18:55 +0100 (Sa, 10 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  rewrite verbose conditionals
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  r68495 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-10 18:36:44 +0100 (Sa, 10 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  tp_iter only exists with Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_ITER #4901
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  r68499 | mark.dickinson | 2009-01-10 20:14:55 +0100 (Sa, 10 Jan 2009) | 2 lines

  Remove an unnecessary check from test_decimal.
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  r68501 | vinay.sajip | 2009-01-10 20:22:57 +0100 (Sa, 10 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  Corrected minor typo and added .currentmodule directives to fix missing cross-references.
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  r68512 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-10 23:42:10 +0100 (Sa, 10 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  make tests fail if they can't be imported
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  r68514 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-11 00:41:59 +0100 (So, 11 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  move seealso to a more appropiate place
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  r68515 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-11 00:49:08 +0100 (So, 11 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  macos 9 isn't supported
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1 files changed, 19 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/Python/import.c b/Python/import.c
index 5c21e0b..5270b37 100644
--- a/Python/import.c
+++ b/Python/import.c
@@ -3199,24 +3199,11 @@ NullImporter_init(NullImporter *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
 		return -1;
 	} else {
 #ifndef RISCOS
+#ifndef MS_WINDOWS
 		struct stat statbuf;
 		int rv;
 
 		rv = stat(path, &statbuf);
-#ifdef MS_WINDOWS
-		/* MS Windows stat() chokes on paths like C:\path\. Try to
-		 * recover *one* time by stripping off a trailing slash or
-		 * backslash. http://bugs.python.org/issue1293
- 		 */
-		if (rv != 0 && pathlen <= MAXPATHLEN &&
-		    (path[pathlen-1] == '/' || path[pathlen-1] == '\\')) {
-			char mangled[MAXPATHLEN+1];
-
-			strcpy(mangled, path);
-			mangled[pathlen-1] = '\0';
-			rv = stat(mangled, &statbuf);
-		}
-#endif
 		if (rv == 0) {
 			/* it exists */
 			if (S_ISDIR(statbuf.st_mode)) {
@@ -3226,7 +3213,24 @@ NullImporter_init(NullImporter *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
 				return -1;
 			}
 		}
-#else
+#else /* MS_WINDOWS */
+		DWORD rv;
+		/* see issue1293 and issue3677:
+		 * stat() on Windows doesn't recognise paths like
+		 * "e:\\shared\\" and "\\\\whiterab-c2znlh\\shared" as dirs.
+		 */
+		rv = GetFileAttributesA(path);
+		if (rv != INVALID_FILE_ATTRIBUTES) {
+			/* it exists */
+			if (rv & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) {
+				/* it's a directory */
+				PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ImportError,
+						"existing directory");
+				return -1;
+			}
+		}
+#endif
+#else /* RISCOS */
 		if (object_exists(path)) {
 			/* it exists */
 			if (isdir(path)) {