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 Library
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+- Issue #4702: Throwing a DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError in case 
+  no MSVC compiler is found under Windows. Original patch by Philip Jenvey. 
+
 - Issue #4646: distutils was choking on empty options arg in the setup 
   function. Original patch by Thomas Heller.