[issue40501] Deprecate and remove ctypes usage in uuid

[Steve Dower]

Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> added the comment:

Thanks Ned.

There are some platform.version() checks in there that I'm basically ignoring right now - are those unnecessary? Shall I clean them up too?

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