This will be used later on when updating the distutils classes
A small deviation from OE is the use of PYTHON_BASEVERSION instead of non-deterministic python code. See https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/poky/2011-January/002320.html for some background info
Signed-off-by: Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.thruhere.net>
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>