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  r76360 | tarek.ziade | 2009-11-18 10:32:34 +0100 (Wed, 18 Nov 2009) | 9 lines

  Merged revisions 76358 via svnmerge from
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    r76358 | tarek.ziade | 2009-11-18 09:46:56 +0100 (Wed, 18 Nov 2009) | 1 line

    #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler now uses a key that exists on any fresh windows install
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Lib/distutils/tests/test_msvc9compiler.py

@@ -44,17 +44,17 @@ class msvc9compilerTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
 
         # looking for values that should exist on all
         # windows registeries versions.
-        path = r'Software\Microsoft\Notepad'
-        v = Reg.get_value(path, "lfitalic")
-        self.assertTrue(v in (0, 1))
+        path = r'Control Panel\Desktop'
+        v = Reg.get_value(path, 'dragfullwindows')
+        self.assertTrue(v in ('0', '1'))
 
         import winreg
         HKCU = winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER
         keys = Reg.read_keys(HKCU, 'xxxx')
         self.assertEquals(keys, None)
 
-        keys = Reg.read_keys(HKCU, r'Software\Microsoft')
-        self.assertTrue('Notepad' in keys)
+        keys = Reg.read_keys(HKCU, r'Control Panel')
+        self.assertTrue('Desktop' in keys)
 
 def test_suite():
     return unittest.makeSuite(msvc9compilerTestCase)

Misc/NEWS

@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
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+- Issue #7293: distutils.test_msvc9compiler is fixed to work on any fresh
+  Windows box. Help provided by David Bolen.
+
 - Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch
 
 - Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish