diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 4b82077b31..da94fb26cc 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ fn create_settings(matches: &ArgMatches) -> PySettings {
             .chain(cmd.skip(1).map(ToOwned::to_owned))
             .collect()
     } else {
-        vec![]
+        vec!["".to_owned()]
     };
 
     settings.argv = argv;
diff --git a/vm/src/stdlib/mod.rs b/vm/src/stdlib/mod.rs
index 6c7cc8ec2d..9c16b419d9 100644
--- a/vm/src/stdlib/mod.rs
+++ b/vm/src/stdlib/mod.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+use crate::pyobject::PyObjectRef;
+use crate::vm::VirtualMachine;
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+
 pub mod array;
 #[cfg(feature = "rustpython-parser")]
 pub(crate) mod ast;
@@ -33,15 +37,17 @@ mod tokenize;
 mod unicodedata;
 mod warnings;
 mod weakref;
-use std::collections::HashMap;
 
-use crate::vm::VirtualMachine;
+#[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+#[macro_use]
+mod os;
+
 #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
 mod faulthandler;
+#[cfg(windows)]
+mod msvcrt;
 #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
 mod multiprocessing;
-#[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
-mod os;
 #[cfg(all(unix, not(any(target_os = "android", target_os = "redox"))))]
 mod pwd;
 #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
@@ -57,8 +63,6 @@ mod winreg;
 #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
 mod zlib;
 
-use crate::pyobject::PyObjectRef;
-
 pub type StdlibInitFunc = Box<dyn Fn(&VirtualMachine) -> PyObjectRef>;
 
 pub fn get_module_inits() -> HashMap<String, StdlibInitFunc> {
@@ -136,6 +140,7 @@ pub fn get_module_inits() -> HashMap<String, StdlibInitFunc> {
     // Windows-only
     #[cfg(windows)]
     {
+        modules.insert("msvcrt".to_owned(), Box::new(msvcrt::make_module));
         modules.insert("_winapi".to_owned(), Box::new(winapi::make_module));
         modules.insert("winreg".to_owned(), Box::new(winreg::make_module));
     }
diff --git a/vm/src/stdlib/msvcrt.rs b/vm/src/stdlib/msvcrt.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6861328520
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vm/src/stdlib/msvcrt.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+use crate::obj::objbytes::PyBytesRef;
+use crate::obj::objstr::PyStringRef;
+use crate::pyobject::{PyObjectRef, PyResult};
+use crate::VirtualMachine;
+
+use itertools::Itertools;
+
+extern "C" {
+    fn _getch() -> i32;
+    fn _getwch() -> u32;
+    fn _getche() -> i32;
+    fn _getwche() -> u32;
+    fn _putch(c: u32) -> i32;
+    fn _putwch(c: u16) -> u32;
+}
+
+fn msvcrt_getch() -> Vec<u8> {
+    let c = unsafe { _getch() };
+    vec![c as u8]
+}
+fn msvcrt_getwch() -> String {
+    let c = unsafe { _getwch() };
+    std::char::from_u32(c).unwrap().to_string()
+}
+fn msvcrt_getche() -> Vec<u8> {
+    let c = unsafe { _getche() };
+    vec![c as u8]
+}
+fn msvcrt_getwche() -> String {
+    let c = unsafe { _getwche() };
+    std::char::from_u32(c).unwrap().to_string()
+}
+fn msvcrt_putch(b: PyBytesRef, vm: &VirtualMachine) -> PyResult<()> {
+    let &c = b.get_value().iter().exactly_one().map_err(|_| {
+        vm.new_type_error("putch() argument must be a byte string of length 1".to_owned())
+    })?;
+    unsafe { suppress_iph!(_putch(c.into())) };
+    Ok(())
+}
+fn msvcrt_putwch(s: PyStringRef, vm: &VirtualMachine) -> PyResult<()> {
+    let c = s.as_str().chars().exactly_one().map_err(|_| {
+        vm.new_type_error("putch() argument must be a string of length 1".to_owned())
+    })?;
+    unsafe { suppress_iph!(_putwch(c as u16)) };
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+pub fn make_module(vm: &VirtualMachine) -> PyObjectRef {
+    let ctx = &vm.ctx;
+    py_module!(vm, "_msvcrt", {
+        "getch" => ctx.new_function(msvcrt_getch),
+        "getwch" => ctx.new_function(msvcrt_getwch),
+        "getche" => ctx.new_function(msvcrt_getche),
+        "getwche" => ctx.new_function(msvcrt_getwche),
+        "putch" => ctx.new_function(msvcrt_putch),
+        "putwch" => ctx.new_function(msvcrt_putwch),
+    })
+}
diff --git a/vm/src/stdlib/os.rs b/vm/src/stdlib/os.rs
index 801b852ded..51e6e85068 100644
--- a/vm/src/stdlib/os.rs
+++ b/vm/src/stdlib/os.rs
@@ -1211,13 +1211,15 @@ type InvalidParamHandler = extern "C" fn(
 );
 #[cfg(windows)]
 extern "C" {
-    fn _set_thread_local_invalid_parameter_handler(
+    #[doc(hidden)]
+    pub fn _set_thread_local_invalid_parameter_handler(
         pNew: InvalidParamHandler,
     ) -> InvalidParamHandler;
 }
 
 #[cfg(windows)]
-extern "C" fn silent_iph_handler(
+#[doc(hidden)]
+pub extern "C" fn silent_iph_handler(
     _: *const libc::wchar_t,
     _: *const libc::wchar_t,
     _: *const libc::wchar_t,
@@ -1226,13 +1228,16 @@ extern "C" fn silent_iph_handler(
 ) {
 }
 
+#[macro_export]
 macro_rules! suppress_iph {
     ($e:expr) => {{
         #[cfg(windows)]
         {
-            let old = _set_thread_local_invalid_parameter_handler(silent_iph_handler);
+            let old = $crate::stdlib::os::_set_thread_local_invalid_parameter_handler(
+                $crate::stdlib::os::silent_iph_handler,
+            );
             let ret = $e;
-            _set_thread_local_invalid_parameter_handler(old);
+            $crate::stdlib::os::_set_thread_local_invalid_parameter_handler(old);
             ret
         }
         #[cfg(not(windows))]