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Author eryksun
Recipients eryksun, jeff.allen, mark, ned.deily, serhiy.storchaka, steve.dower, terry.reedy
Date 2016-02-11.03:11:03
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Message-id <1455160263.45.0.0937377752418.issue22121@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> What we want seems to be a normal thing to do, and achieved by 
> some, but perhaps by a post installation script.

It would help to have a couple of the bdist_wininst functions available for a post-install script:

    create_shortcut (CreateShortcut)
    get_special_folder_path (GetSpecialFolderPath)
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