Mark Hammond <skippy.hamm...@gmail.com> added the comment:

As Tim Roberts says on the python-win32 list:

> Actually, on closer examination, it may be a bit difficult to sell this.  The 
> Microsoft compilers do not define this symbol at all.  The SDK defines 
> SSIZE_T (as a long).  Nothing defines ssize_t. 

http://code.activestate.com/lists/python-win32/11231/ for the full post.

So yeah, the conclusion is that we shouldn't define such symbols incase someone 
else does too.  So conceptually I'm +1 on that patch (I'm yet to try it and 
probably will not get a chance for a week or 2)

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