From 5f6228ed461987709c75dd3ebd253beb412ed457 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 16:28:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Define DEBUG in a separate module to resolve circular
 references.

---
 Lib/distutils/debug.py | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Lib/distutils/debug.py

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/debug.py b/Lib/distutils/debug.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7ca76d6c5c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/distutils/debug.py
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+import os
+
+# If DISTUTILS_DEBUG is anything other than the empty string, we run in
+# debug mode.
+DEBUG = os.environ.get('DISTUTILS_DEBUG')
+