[issue21539] pathlib's Path.mkdir() should allow for "mkdir -p" functionality

New submission from Jim Garrison: As of Python 3.2, `os.makedirs()` takes `exist_ok` as a keyword argument. If set to true, the function does not raise an error if the directory already exists. This makes the function's behavior similar to `mkdir -p` on the UNIX commandline. (See

[issue4147] xml.dom.minidom toprettyxml: omit whitespace for text-only elements

Jim Garrison added the comment: Also needed here. While pretty-printing should be able to insert non-significant whitespace BETWEEN xml elements, it should never alter the content of (i.e. insert whitespace into) existing text elements. -- nosy: +jgarrison

[issue4147] xml.dom.minidom toprettyxml: omit whitespace for text-only elements

Jim Garrison added the comment: To clarify: ... it should never alter the content of (i.e. insert whitespace into) existing text elements that contain non-whitespace characters. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue4

[issue5674] distutils fails to find Linux libs (lib.....so.n)

New submission from Jim Garrison : Trying to build 3.1a1 on Fedora 9, the following extensions get skipped even though the requisite packages are installed _dbm _gdbm _hashlib _sqlite3 _ssl bz2 readline zlib