Document windows 7 permissions workaround

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+Later versions of windows don't allow write access to Program Files by default.
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+This doesn't play nicely with pycparser's desire to write lextab and yacctab files.
+To work around this problem, we disable that by applying the win7_c_parser.patch
+manually to C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\pycparser\c_parser.py before running
+py2exe.
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+Automating this is left as an exercise for some other pyweek.