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On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:24:30 -0700 (PDT), peter
<peter.mosley@talk21.com> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> Not pretty, but as I said it works. I know now not to spend time
> looking further. Whilst there may be a historical reason for the
> current situation, it would be a great convenience for amateur coders
> like mayself if the gurus could devise a platform independent version
> of mscvrt.
>
	What would they call it... It sure wouldn't be "MicroSoft Visual C
RunTime".

	Note that the documentation for msvcrt states that /it/ is how the
getpass module is implemented on Windows.

	Take a look at the bottom of getpass.py and look at the loops it has
to do to handle three different environments.
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