I created the issue, and I have no experience setting those fields. It'd be great to get it in the next 3.9 release though.

Also, thank you for implementing this!

You're welcome! Personally, I'd like to see this on the next 3.9 release too, I'll just see what the core devs decide.

Btw, I have a feeling that arguments on whether to backport or not should go onto the bpo thread, so that it's easier for others to follow.

@Fidget-Spinner: Status check is done, and it's a failure ❌ .

Azure Pipelines tests are failing due to WinArm64 tests failing (I didn't even know we had tests for ARM!) the full error log is here.
Here's a snippet:

c1 : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'D:\a\1\b\externals\sqlite-3.33.0.0\sqlite3.c': No such file or directory [D:\a\1\s\PCbuild\sqlite3.vcxproj]
    3 Warning(s)
    1 Error(s)

Time Elapsed 00:03:34.57
##[error]Cmd.exe exited with code '1'.

Seems like a problem with solution file for ARM. All the other tests are passing though. From cpython's repository commit history, this PR might be the first ever tested with WinArm64 on azure pipelines, I'm guessing it's a new test with things not fully ironed out yet?

EDIT:
Nevermind I saw the start of the log

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\a\1\s\PCbuild\\get_external.py", line 60, in <module>
    main()
  File "D:\a\1\s\PCbuild\\get_external.py", line 48, in main
    zip_path = fetch_zip(
  File "D:\a\1\s\PCbuild\\get_external.py", line 17, in fetch_zip
    filename, headers = urlretrieve(
  File "C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.8.6\x64\lib\urllib\request.py", line 247, in urlretrieve
    with contextlib.closing(urlopen(url, data)) as fp:
  File "C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.8.6\x64\lib\urllib\request.py", line 222, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.8.6\x64\lib\urllib\request.py", line 531, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.8.6\x64\lib\urllib\request.py", line 640, in http_response
    response = self.parent.error(
  File "C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.8.6\x64\lib\urllib\request.py", line 569, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.8.6\x64\lib\urllib\request.py", line 502, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\Python\3.8.6\x64\lib\urllib\request.py", line 649, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 504: Gateway Time-out

get_externals.bat wasn't successful due to connection issues.

Sorry @gvanrossum, is it possible for you to trigger a re-run of the Azure Pipelines Github Action? Or do I have to push an empty commit?

I don’t know how to trigger just that, but I will close and then reopen.

You may also try rebasing, in case it’s fixed in main.

@Fidget-Spinner: Status check is done, and it's a failure ❌ .

Hopefully miss islington will eventually get it.

@Fidget-Spinner: Status check is done, and it's a success ✅ .

Thanks @Fidget-Spinner for the PR 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.9.
🐍🍒⛏🤖

Sorry, @Fidget-Spinner, I could not cleanly backport this to 3.9 due to a conflict.
Please backport using cherry_picker on command line.
cherry_picker 384b7a4bd988986bca227c7e85c32d766da74708 3.9

GH-23309 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.9 branch.