[python-win32] Windows 10

[Zachary Turner]

It's not that "many programmers still refer to Windows API as Win32", it's
that the Windows API itself has decided that that is what it is called.
When you #define _WIN32 in a C or C++ program using the Windows API, it
does not mean "this is a 32-bit app", it means "I'm using the Windows
API".  That's why you still define this even in 64-bit builds, for example,
where you #define both _WIN32 and _WIN64.

You're not wrong, but it's just that the problem goes deeper than what you
make it sound :)  The Windows API *is* the Win32 API and vice versa.  They
are synonyms.

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 11:24 PM eryksun <eryksun at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/25/15, Laura Creighton <lac at openend.se> wrote:
> >
> > Can I suggest a mailing list name change to reflect 64 bit windows?
> > python-windows would be my suggestion ....
>
> I agree. This list is about programming in Python on Windows, so
> python-windows is an obvious name and one that a novice programmer can
> easily recognize.
>
> I think the name has yet to change because a lot of programmers still
> refer to the Windows API as "Win32" instead of "WinAPI". Also, the
> system directory on 64-bit Windows is still called "System32", and
> many of the more well-known system DLLs still have "32" in the name,
> such as the following:
>
>     shell32, ole32, kernel32, crypt32, opengl32,
>     user32, advapi32, win32spl, comctl32, comdlg32,
>     gdi32, rasapi32, w32time, wldap32, ws2_32,
>     tapi32, cfgmgr32, imm32, msvfw32, clfsw32,
>     netapi32, wtsapi32, mssign32, secur32, riched32
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