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+Use netifaces 0.11.0 wheel package from PyPI.org if you use 64-bit Python 2.7 on Windows.  VCPython27 downloads are no longer available at Microsoft's website, which has made building Python 2.7 wheel packages of Python libraries with C extensions (such as netifaces) on Windows difficult.