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I don't know when exactly this got fixed, it could be - something just got changed in the GitHub runner; - this change https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32/pull/2645/files#diff-0ba6c3a60c0d9ce9c43eb3c9c83acf4147c2382122ef18a17e8a418d88db502bR27 that @geppi originally suggested in https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32/pull/2655#issuecomment-3334907078...

Makes checking the existence of a path more idiomatic. Reduces use of try-catch for logical flow. Simplifies some code. Solves a few "possibly unbound/undefined" variables as seen by type-checkers.

Getting really close to completely and cleanly removing the compiler hack entirely ! Also solves a few more `LNK4075` that would still appear. Just waiting for pypa/setuptools#4986 / pypa/distutils#370 next.

For all bugs, please provide the following information: ## Expected behavior and actual behavior Whilst working on Native ARM64 builds (https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32/pull/2581), I noticed that ARM64 tests would fail on COM...

Overlaps with https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32/pull/2286, merging that first will reduce changes here. --- I wanted to see how far I could get running the adodbapi tests (for https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32/pull/1495) but found them in...

Extracted from #2555 and #2277

For all bugs, please provide the following information: ## Expected behavior and actual behavior Using the reproduction steps below, I'd expect  (I purposefully omitted the final argument so that...

Mostly updating obsolete documentation and simplifying some tests. I searched for the terms "Windows 2000" and "Vista". Along with https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32/pull/2668, this removes all usages of `sys.getwindowsversion()`, pushing the Python code...

Taking this as a technical debt note: `win32trace` has special handling for pre-win2k/XP when it comes to global namespace. It seems the code can likely be simplified now that the...

> The current deployment has some issues [...] a multibyte issue on https://mhammond.github.io/pywin32/html/pythonwin/doc/guienvironment.html#InteractiveWindow given the autoduck outputs quirks mode with no charset info etc.) _Originally posted by @janbrasna in [#394](https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32/issues/394#issuecomment-2878112034)_