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Author loewis
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The typical distutils user does use a Python binary compiled
by somebody else, and may have multiple MSVC versions
installed, or may have the wrong version installed.

I was hoping that you can find the MSVC version from
sys.version, but that only tells you that it is MSC (or that
it isn't). I would suggest to modify the compiler
identification in sys.version to include the MSC version.
Perhaps we could eliminate the identification of Win32-Alpha
at the same time.

IOW, the compiler string should read
[MSC v.12 32 bit]
or perhaps v.1200 if that makes it easier.

Then, distutils should look into sys.version for the
compiler revision, and assume v.1200 (i.e. MSVC6) if no
version indication is found.
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