Merged revisions 68440 via svnmerge from

Merged revisions 68440 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r68440 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-08 22:11:44 -0600 (Thu, 08 Jan 2009) | 30 lines

  Merged revisions 68167,68276,68292-68293,68344 via svnmerge from
  svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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    r68167 | vinay.sajip | 2009-01-02 12:53:04 -0600 (Fri, 02 Jan 2009) | 1 line

    Minor documentation changes relating to NullHandler, the module used for handlers and references to ConfigParser.
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    r68276 | tarek.ziade | 2009-01-03 18:04:49 -0600 (Sat, 03 Jan 2009) | 1 line

    fixed #1702551: distutils sdist was not pruning VCS directories under win32
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    r68292 | skip.montanaro | 2009-01-04 04:36:58 -0600 (Sun, 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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    r68293 | tarek.ziade | 2009-01-04 04:37:52 -0600 (Sun, 04 Jan 2009) | 1 line

    using clearer syntax
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    r68344 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2009-01-05 13:43:35 -0600 (Mon, 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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