[issue16396] Importing ctypes.wintypes on Linux gives a traceback

[Meador Inge]

Meador Inge added the comment:

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Ezio Melotti <report at bugs.python.org>wrote:

> Even if the patch is applied only on 3.4, I would still like to see the
> ValueError turned into ImportError for 2.7/3.3.
>

Why not raise an ImportError for all versions?  I don't see how
'ctypes.wintypes' is ever actually useful on anything but Windows.
 Allowing it to successfully import on non-Windows systems seems misleading.

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