- fix for urllib2 (http://bugs.python.org/issue9639)

- fixed distutils test
- dropped autoconf version requirement (it builds just fine with other versions)

- update to version 2.7
* improved handling of numeric types
* deprecation warnings are now silent by default
* new argparse module for command line arguments
* many new features, see http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.7.html
for complete list
*** 2.7 is supposed to be the last version from the 2.x series,
so its (upstream) maintenance period will probably be longer than usual.
However, upstream development now focuses on 3.x series.
- cleaned up spec and patches