Issue #18784: The uuid module no more attempts to load libc via ctypes.CDLL,

if all necessary functions are already found in libuuid.
Patch by Evgeny Sologubov.

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index db01d14..b649f7f 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -1160,6 +1160,7 @@ Rafal Smotrzyk
 Eric Snow
 Dirk Soede
 Paul Sokolovsky
+Evgeny Sologubov
 Cody Somerville
 Edoardo Spadolini
 Clay Spence
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index dcd9754..3d9f24d 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #18784: The uuid module no more attempts to load libc via ctypes.CDLL,
+  if all necessary functions are already found in libuuid.
+  Patch by Evgeny Sologubov.
+
 - Issue #18672: Fixed format specifiers for Py_ssize_t in debugging output in
   the _sre module.