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authorSteve Dower <steve.dower@python.org>2020-01-29 02:46:33 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-01-29 02:46:33 (GMT)
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bpo-39401: Avoid unsafe DLL load on Windows 7 and earlier (GH-18231)
As Windows 7 is not supported by Python 3.9, we just replace the dynamic load with a static import. Backports will have a different fix to ensure they continue to behave the same.
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+Avoid unsafe DLL load at startup on Windows 7 and earlier.