Why isn't crypt.py in Win32 Python distribution?

[Michael Ströder]

Tim Peters wrote:
> 
> cryptmodule.c, which is not compiled on Windows, because it relies on a
> non-standard external C function
> 
>     extern char * crypt(const char *, const char *);
> 
> that comes with Unix C libraries but is not supplied by Microsoft's C
> runtime.  So the only way it will ever show up on Windows is if someone
> contributes an unencumbered Windows implementation.

If the OpenSSL lib is around cryptmodule.c of Python 2.x could be
built against it. Not sure about Windows though...and I'm not a C
programmer...

Ciao, Michael.