On second thought, first try for _winreg, and then winreg. Only if both

fail do we try for win32api/win32con. If *those* both fail, then we don't have registry access. Phew!
2000-06-29 23:04:59 +00:00 · 2000-06-29 23:04:59 +00:00 · 83c3870e2b
parent cc7371c437
commit 83c3870e2b
1 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
@ -20,7 +20,11 @@ from distutils.ccompiler import \

 _can_read_reg = 0
 try:
-    import _winreg
+    try:
+        import _winreg
+    except ImportError:
+        import winreg                   # for pre-2000/06/29 CVS Python
+
    _can_read_reg = 1
    hkey_mod = _winreg