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Author ocean-city
Recipients ocean-city
Date 2009-01-07.06:04:27
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Message-id <1231308274.82.0.340976198497.issue4864@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Currently, test_msvc9compiler fails on VC6 with following message.

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test_distutils.py", line 17, in <module>
    test_main()
  File "test_distutils.py", line 13, in test_main
    test.test_support.run_unittest(distutils.tests.test_suite())
  File "e:\python-dev\trunk\lib\test\test_support.py", line 710, in 
run_unittest

    _run_suite(suite)
  File "e:\python-dev\trunk\lib\test\test_support.py", line 693, in 
_run_suite
    raise TestFailed(err)
test.test_support.TestFailed: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "e:\python-dev\trunk\lib\distutils\tests\test_msvc9compiler.py", 
line 16,
 in test_no_compiler
    from distutils.msvc9compiler import query_vcvarsall
  File "e:\python-dev\trunk\lib\distutils\msvc9compiler.py", line 281, 
in <modul
e>
    raise DistutilsPlatformError("VC %0.1f is not supported by this 
module" % VE
RSION)
DistutilsPlatformError: VC 6.0 is not supported by this module

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I think attached patch will fix this. Is this fix appropriate?

Thank you.
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