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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2002-11-11 19:51:33 (GMT)
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2002-11-11 19:51:33 (GMT)
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Added a blurb about the change to sys.version under MSVC.
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Windows
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+- When Python is built under a Microsoft compiler, sys.version now
+ includes the compiler version number (_MSC_VER). For example, under
+ MSVC 6, sys.version constains the substring "MSC v.1200 ". 1200 is
+ the value of _MSC_VER under MSVC 6.
+
- Sometimes the uninstall executable (UNWISE.EXE) vanishes. One cause
of that has been fixed in the installer (disabled Wise's "delete in-
use files" uninstall option).