[issue24634] Importing uuid should not try to load libc on Windows

[eryksun]

eryksun added the comment:

> That would break anyone else who's manually managing their own 
> activation context around ctypes. 

Since this can't be made to work automatically, I prefer your suggestion to continue checking for uuid.dll. You could just do something like the following:

    libnames = ['uuid']
    if sys.platform != 'win32':
        libnames.append('c')

    for libname in libnames:
        ...

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