From 2920784f43bc24647d128dcac049bf6a2a0aad11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Wilkie <maphew@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 22:09:08 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] don't ValueError fail wintypes import on non-Windows

...as per suggestion on Python.org bug tracker
http://bugs.python.org/issue16396

Another run at #48
---
 knownpaths.py | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/knownpaths.py b/knownpaths.py
index 3de720e..8ebfa69 100644
--- a/knownpaths.py
+++ b/knownpaths.py
@@ -1,10 +1,17 @@
 '''Python wrapper around the SHGetKnownFolderPath Windows Shell function
 knownpaths.py, from https://gist.github.com/mkropat/7550097
 '''
-import ctypes, sys
-from ctypes import windll, wintypes
-from uuid import UUID
+import sys
+import ctypes
+try:
+
+    from ctypes import windll, wintypes
+except ImportError, ValueError:
+    # catch ImportError and ValueError due to issue16396
+    # http://bugs.python.org/issue16396
+    pass
 
+from uuid import UUID
 class GUID(ctypes.Structure):   # [1]
     _fields_ = [
         ("Data1", wintypes.DWORD),