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> I have no idea how to build Python without threads on
> Windows, so I'm probably not the best person to try this.

Tim, you can uncomment '#define WITH_THREAD' in
PC/pyconfig.h, and exclude 'threadmodule.c' from the build,
for a start (this will give you the compile error that the
patch is supposed to fix, plus others in _ctypes and sqlite3
code, for example ;-). 

Or you downgrade to linux...