Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amaur...@gmail.com> added the comment:

> this is, after all, a new platform! it starts off with 
> "sys.platform == 'mingw32'"

I disagree; programs compiled with mingw32 run on Windows, and use the MSVC 
runtime. It's the same platform as the current win32 build.
It's even possible to use mingw32 to compile extensions for the VS9.0 based 
python.exe.
A different compiler does not make a new platform.

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