From 1b5ec76190dba6c488a7617731050f7a870260ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Ward <gward@python.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 19:37:59 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Simplify the registry-module-finding code: _winreg or
 win32api/win32con. This'll work fine with 2.0 or 1.5.2, but is less than
 ideal for 1.6a1/a2.  But the code to accomodate 1.6a1/a2 was released with
 Distutils 0.9, so it can go away now.

---
 Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
index ae5e2d767a6..e58e6c10c81 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
@@ -20,10 +20,7 @@ from distutils.ccompiler import \
 
 _can_read_reg = 0
 try:
-    try:
-        import _winreg
-    except ImportError:
-        import winreg                   # for pre-2000/06/29 CVS Python
+    import _winreg
 
     _can_read_reg = 1
     hkey_mod = _winreg