Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/upload.py b/Lib/distutils/command/upload.py
index e30347e507..df82e4ca56 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/upload.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/upload.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from distutils.errors import *
 from distutils.core import PyPIRCCommand
 from distutils.spawn import spawn
 from distutils import log
-from hashlib import md5
+import sys
 import os
 import socket
 import platform
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ import urlparse
 import cStringIO as StringIO
 from ConfigParser import ConfigParser
 
+# this keeps compatibility for 2.3 and 2.4
+if sys.version < "2.5":
+    from md5 import md5
+else:
+    from hashlib import md5
 
 class upload(PyPIRCCommand):