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  r77763 | eric.smith | 2010-01-26 19:28:29 -0500 (Tue, 26 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  Issue #7766: Change sys.getwindowsversion() return value to a named tuple and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX structure. The new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor, suite_mask, and product_type.
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #7766: Change sys.getwindowsversion() return value to a named
+  tuple and add the additional members returned in an OSVERSIONINFOEX
+  structure. The new members are service_pack_major, service_pack_minor,
+  suite_mask, and product_type.
+
 - Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`)
   could crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro
   returning NULL.  The macro now returns a statically allocated empty