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  r68081 | tarek.ziade | 2008-12-31 00:03:41 +0100 (Wed, 31 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  Fixed #4702: Throwing DistutilsPlatformError instead of IOError under win32 if MSVC is not found
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diff --git a/Lib/distutils/msvc9compiler.py b/Lib/distutils/msvc9compiler.py
index 4f72e78..68b7775 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/msvc9compiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/msvc9compiler.py
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@
     result = {}
 
     if vcvarsall is None:
-        raise IOError("Unable to find vcvarsall.bat")
+        raise DistutilsPlatformError("Unable to find vcvarsall.bat")
     log.debug("Calling 'vcvarsall.bat %s' (version=%s)", arch, version)
     popen = subprocess.Popen('"%s" %s & set' % (vcvarsall, arch),
                              stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@
 
     stdout, stderr = popen.communicate()
     if popen.wait() != 0:
-        raise IOError(stderr.decode("mbcs"))
+        raise DistutilsPlatformError(stderr.decode("mbcs"))
 
     stdout = stdout.decode("mbcs")
     for line in stdout.split("\n"):