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-rw-r--r--PC/config.h5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/PC/config.h b/PC/config.h
index 13da33f..1491e32 100644
--- a/PC/config.h
+++ b/PC/config.h
@@ -234,7 +234,10 @@ typedef int pid_t;
/* End of compilers - finish up */
#if defined(MS_WIN64)
-#define PLATFORM "win64"
+/* maintain "win32" sys.platform for backward compatibility of Python code,
+ the Win64 API should be close enough to the Win32 API to make this
+ preferable */
+#define PLATFORM "win32"
#define SIZEOF_VOID_P 8
#elif defined(MS_WIN32)
#define PLATFORM "win32"