[issue5956] test_distutils fails for Python 3.1b1 on MacOS X

[Jean Brouwers]

Jean Brouwers <MrJean1 at Gmail.com> added the comment:

Indeed, this is Python 3.1b1 built from source on MacOS X 10.4.1 Tiger 
(Intel).

MacOS considers some of these win*.exe files directories.  See the 
attached picture and below.

% ls -l Python-3.1b1/Lib/distutils/command/win*
-rw-r--r--   1 jean  jean   61440 Jul 15  2008 Python-
3.1b1/Lib/distutils/command/wininst-6.0.1.exe
-rw-r--r--   1 jean  jean   65536 Jul 15  2008 Python-
3.1b1/Lib/distutils/command/wininst-7.1.1.exe
-rw-r--r--   1 jean  jean   61440 Jan 20 13:25 Python-
3.1b1/Lib/distutils/command/wininst-8.0.1.exe
-rw-r--r--   1 jean  jean  224256 Jan 29 05:08 Python-
3.1b1/Lib/distutils/command/wininst-9.0-amd64.1.exe
-rw-r--r--   1 jean  jean  196096 Jan 29 05:08 Python-
3.1b1/Lib/distutils/command/wininst-9.0.exe

Python-3.1b1/Lib/distutils/command/wininst-6.0.exe:

Python-3.1b1/Lib/distutils/command/wininst-7.1.exe:

Python-3.1b1/Lib/distutils/command/wininst-8.0.exe:

Python-3.1b1/Lib/distutils/command/wininst-9.0-amd64.exe:

% ls -l Python-3.1b1/Lib/distutils/command/
total 2240
....
-rw-r--r--   1 jean  jean   61440 Jul 15  2008 wininst-6.0.1.exe
drwxr-xr-x   2 jean  jean      68 May  7 09:10 wininst-6.0.exe
-rw-r--r--   1 jean  jean   65536 Jul 15  2008 wininst-7.1.1.exe
drwxr-xr-x   2 jean  jean      68 May  7 09:10 wininst-7.1.exe
-rw-r--r--   1 jean  jean   61440 Jan 20 13:25 wininst-8.0.1.exe
drwxr-xr-x   2 jean  jean      68 May  7 09:10 wininst-8.0.exe
-rw-r--r--   1 jean  jean  224256 Jan 29 05:08 wininst-9.0-amd64.1.exe
drwxr-xr-x   2 jean  jean      68 May  7 09:10 wininst-9.0-amd64.exe
-rw-r--r--   1 jean  jean  196096 Jan 29 05:08 wininst-9.0.exe

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