From 94b3463f7e6b43da52242df67eb6fe7f6057a1fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 04:03:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] We're long past worrying about Python versions older than
 1.5.2; remove old compatibility definition of os.path.abspath().

---
 Doc/tools/mkhowto | 11 -----------
 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/tools/mkhowto b/Doc/tools/mkhowto
index e20480248af..8f506c5ba55 100755
--- a/Doc/tools/mkhowto
+++ b/Doc/tools/mkhowto
@@ -46,17 +46,6 @@ import shutil
 import sys
 
 
-if not hasattr(os.path, "abspath"):
-    # Python 1.5.1 or earlier
-    def abspath(path):
-        """Return an absolute path."""
-        if not os.path.isabs(path):
-            path = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), path)
-        return os.path.normpath(path)
-
-    os.path.abspath = abspath
-
-
 MYDIR = os.path.abspath(sys.path[0])
 TOPDIR = os.path.dirname(MYDIR)