[Python-Dev] Symbolic errno values in error messages

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Until recently, python had its own cross-platform implementation of
> strerror, but it was removed because it was deemed redundant.  This
> tells me that it should work on windows.

That conclusion is incorrect. It works on MSVCRT, but for this specific
aspect, using MSVCRT is a bad idea (because it artificially renumbers
system errors, just to provide an illusion for what Microsoft considers
POSIX).

Regards,
Martin