Why is w9xpopen.exe bundled with Python 2.7 on Windows?

Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Date	2014-08-29 15:08 -0700
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Subject	Why is w9xpopen.exe bundled with Python 2.7 on Windows?
From	ps16thypresenceisfullnessofjoy@gmail.com

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According to the message box that appears when it is run, w9xpopen.exe is only used on Windows 95/98. If that is the case, why it is still included in Python 2.7, since Python 2.5.4 is the last version that works on Windows 9x?

I've been excluding w9xpopen.exe in my py2exe setup script for my Python application, since my app won't run on Windows 9x anyway. Is there still some good reason to include it that I'm not aware of?

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Why is w9xpopen.exe bundled with Python 2.7 on Windows? ps16thypresenceisfullnessofjoy@gmail.com - 2014-08-29 15:08 -0700
  Re: Why is w9xpopen.exe bundled with Python 2.7 on Windows? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-08-29 20:54 -0400
    Re: Why is w9xpopen.exe bundled with Python 2.7 on Windows? ps16thypresenceisfullnessofjoy@gmail.com - 2014-08-29 18:16 -0700
      Re: Why is w9xpopen.exe bundled with Python 2.7 on Windows? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-08-30 01:05 -0400
        Re: Why is w9xpopen.exe bundled with Python 2.7 on Windows? ps16thypresenceisfullnessofjoy@gmail.com - 2014-08-30 07:45 -0700
          Re: Why is w9xpopen.exe bundled with Python 2.7 on Windows? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-08-30 14:43 -0400

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