From 3e73a011d9c04b3460c05c2d026d2d8964b79cf3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fredrik Lundh <fredrik@pythonware.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:19:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Replace dynamic try/except with "if 0", to keep py2exe happy.
  If you want to use pywin32 instead of _subprocess, you have to edit the
 file.

---
 Lib/subprocess.py | 20 ++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py
index 8d72ba04a2..3a3020d2ce 100644
--- a/Lib/subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/subprocess.py
@@ -367,16 +367,7 @@ import traceback
 if mswindows:
     import threading
     import msvcrt
-    try:
-        from _subprocess import *
-        class STARTUPINFO:
-            dwFlags = 0
-            hStdInput = None
-            hStdOutput = None
-            hStdError = None
-        class pywintypes:
-            error = IOError
-    except ImportError:
+    if 0: # <-- change this to use pywin32 instead of the _subprocess driver
         import pywintypes
         from win32api import GetStdHandle, STD_INPUT_HANDLE, \
                              STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE, STD_ERROR_HANDLE
@@ -388,6 +379,15 @@ if mswindows:
                                  GetExitCodeProcess, STARTF_USESTDHANDLES, \
                                  CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE
         from win32event import WaitForSingleObject, INFINITE, WAIT_OBJECT_0
+    else:
+        from _subprocess import *
+        class STARTUPINFO:
+            dwFlags = 0
+            hStdInput = None
+            hStdOutput = None
+            hStdError = None
+        class pywintypes:
+            error = IOError
 else:
     import select
     import errno
-- 
2.40.0