Merge p3yk branch with the trunk up to revision 45595. This breaks a fair

number of tests, all because of the codecs/_multibytecodecs issue described
here (it's not a Py3K issue, just something Py3K discovers):
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/064051.html

Hye-Shik Chang promised to look for a fix, so no need to fix it here. The
tests that are expected to break are:

test_codecencodings_cn
test_codecencodings_hk
test_codecencodings_jp
test_codecencodings_kr
test_codecencodings_tw
test_codecs
test_multibytecodec

This merge fixes an actual test failure (test_weakref) in this branch,
though, so I believe merging is the right thing to do anyway.

Lib/distutils/log.py

@@ -20,7 +20,12 @@ class Log:
 
     def _log(self, level, msg, args):
         if level >= self.threshold:
-            print msg % args
+            if not args:
+                # msg may contain a '%'. If args is empty,
+                # don't even try to string-format
+                print msg
+            else:
+                print msg % args
             sys.stdout.flush()
 
     def log(self, level, msg, *args):