From: Greg Ward <gward@python.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 23:04:59 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: On second thought, first try for _winreg, and then winreg.  Only if both
X-Git-Tag: v2.0b1~1269
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=83c3870e2b3c1a652bdcdd8779ab8fc0f284f27d;p=python

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!
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diff --git a/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
index 6acd4efd0d..ae5e2d767a 100644
--- 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