Steve Dower added the comment:
Committed a fix, but apparently messed up linking back to the issue:
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/60eb61d6fdb4
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/877f47ca3b79
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resolution: -> fixed
stage: -> resolved
status: open -> closed
New submission from Steve Dower:
The Windows installer attempts to load one of the public facing API sets to
detect the current CRT version. However, on Windows 10, these DLLs are not
directly loadable.
We should probably just load ucrtbase.dll directly for the version check.
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