From 645fa19f15cddeec8d882a9e1420173e7516f0e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Miss Islington (bot)"
 <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 03:00:50 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] bpo-32302: Fix distutils bdist_wininst for CRT v142 (GH-4851)
 (#4861)

CRT v142 is binary compatible with CRT v140.
(cherry picked from commit 9e7c136ad8bc8e8eec50c2a8ae5ff02752f695a2)
---
 Lib/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py                        | 4 ++--
 .../next/Library/2017-12-13-22-38-08.bpo-32302.othtTr.rst     | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-13-22-38-08.bpo-32302.othtTr.rst

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py b/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py
index 6309c3e248..83f0073265 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py
@@ -338,8 +338,8 @@ class bdist_wininst(Command):
                 bv = '14.0'
             else:
                 bv = '.'.join(CRT_ASSEMBLY_VERSION.split('.', 2)[:2])
-                if bv == '14.11':
-                    # v141 and v140 are binary compatible,
+                if bv in ('14.11', '14.12'):
+                    # v142, v141 and v140 are binary compatible,
                     # so keep using the 14.0 stub.
                     bv = '14.0'
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-13-22-38-08.bpo-32302.othtTr.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-13-22-38-08.bpo-32302.othtTr.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..abe51f094a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-13-22-38-08.bpo-32302.othtTr.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix bdist_wininst of distutils for CRT v142: it binary compatible with CRT
+v140.
-- 
2.40.0