From 94e0772989073d207855a787a59f863f79230771 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:05:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Merged revisions 67414 via svnmerge from
 svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r67414 | christian.heimes | 2008-11-28 12:02:32 +0100 (Fri, 28 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  Fixed issue ##3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an exception
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---
 Lib/distutils/msvc9compiler.py | 2 +-
 Misc/NEWS                      | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/msvc9compiler.py b/Lib/distutils/msvc9compiler.py
index 465013dc331..eced0524b80 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/msvc9compiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/msvc9compiler.py
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ class MSVCCompiler(CCompiler) :
         self.__version = VERSION
         self.__root = r"Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio"
         # self.__macros = MACROS
-        self.__path = []
+        self.__paths = []
         # target platform (.plat_name is consistent with 'bdist')
         self.plat_name = None
         self.__arch = None # deprecated name
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0ff809cbc8d..6c1a0f1cd54 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #3741: DISTUTILS_USE_SDK set causes msvc9compiler.py to raise an
+  exception.
+
 - Issue #4433: Fixed an access violation when garbage collecting
   _ctypes.COMError instances.