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Expand Up @@ -422,6 +422,12 @@ dependants, such as Idle), pip and the Python documentation are not included.
automatically via Windows Update, and can be detected by finding
``ucrtbase.dll`` in the system directory.

.. note::

When running on Windows 7, Python 3.8 requires the KB2533623 update to be
installed. The embeddable distribution does not detect this update, and may
fail at runtime. Later versions of Windows include this update.

Third-party packages should be installed by the application installer alongside
the embedded distribution. Using pip to manage dependencies as for a regular
Python installation is not supported with this distribution, though with some
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