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On 04/08/2011 15:37, Jason Tishler wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 04:57:06PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Aug  3 09:22, Jason Tishler wrote:
>>> Anyway, I will add this patch to the next Cygwin Python build.
>>
>> Thanks.  Any chance to get this soon?  This is a really problematic
>> limitation.
>
> I'm busy preparing for being AFK.  I will release Cygwin Python (and
> rebase) as soon as I can when I get back.

The current cygwin python also seems to demonstrate python bug #9054 "pyexpat 
configured with "--with-system-expat" is incompatible with expat 2.0.1" [1]

[1] http://bugs.python.org/issue9054

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