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mhammond committed Nov 14, 2020
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after this call, `arg1.value` was actually the value for `arg2`, and
vice-versa (#1303, #622).

* Fixed a bug that Pythonwin had an empty `sys.argv` (@kxrob in #1607)

* Fixed a bug that prevented win32process.ReadProcessMemory() from working
in all scenarios (#1599)

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* Pythonwin's default encoding is now utf-8 (#1559)

* The build environment has been greatly simplified - you just need Visual
Studio and a Windows 10 SDK. (The free compilers probably work too, but
haven't been tested - let me know your experiences!)

Since build 227:
----------------
* Support for for win32evtlog.EvtFormatMessage and EvtCreateRenderContext
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## Installing via PIP

Note that PIP support is experimental.

You can install pywin32 via pip:
> pip install pywin32
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> python Scripts/pywin32_postinstall.py -install
## Building from source
Building from source is extremely complicated due to the fact we support building
old versions of Python using old versions of Windows SDKs. If you just want to
build the most recent version, you can probably get away with installing the
same MSVC version used to build that version of Python, grabbing a recent
Windows SDK and running `setup.py`

Building from source has been simplified recently - you just need Visual Studio
and the Windows 10 SDK installed (the free compilers probably work too, but
haven't been tested - let me know your experiences!)

`setup.py` is a standard distutils build script. You probably want:

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