[issue40740] Missing api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1.0.dll for python-3.9.0b1-amd64.exe Under Win7

Andrew Ushakov added the comment: Is the missed api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1.0.dll library the only reason of the Python 3.9 and 3.10 incompatibility with Windows 7? I am asking because I just found replacement of this dll, compatible with Windows 7: https://github.com/nalexandru/api-ms-win

[issue38755] Long unicode string causes SyntaxError: Non-UTF-8 code starting with '\xe2' in file ..., but no encoding declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for details

Andrew Ushakov added the comment: Just tested again: D:\Downloads>py Python 3.9.4 (tags/v3.9.4:1f2e308, Apr 4 2021, 13:27:16) [MSC v.1928 64 bit (AM

[issue38755] Long unicode string causes SyntaxError: Non-UTF-8 code starting with '\xe2' in file ..., but no encoding declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for details

Andrew Ushakov added the comment: > On Windows, with 3.7, 3.8.0, and master, neither the posted comment, the one > in the file, not the initial statement in #34979 give the SyntaxError. Just tried again on my corporate laptop with the downloaded file from this site: Microsoft W

[issue38755] Long unicode string causes SyntaxError: Non-UTF-8 code starting with '\xe2' in file ..., but no encoding declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for details

New submission from Andrew Ushakov : Not very long unicode comment #, space and then 170 or more repetitions of the utf8 symbol ░ (b'\xe2\x96\x91'.decode

[issue38359] pyw.exe opens console window in Windows 10

New submission from Andrew Ushakov : pyw.exe (Python Launcher for Windows Version 3.8.121.1013) opens a console window at startup. To reproduce, run command below from the console: D:>pyw -c "import time; time.sleep(10)" By the way command: D:>pythomw -c "import time; t