Issue #12804: Fix test failures on systems without internet access.
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+- Issue #12804: Fix test_socket and test_urllib2net failures when running tests
+  on a system without internet access.
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 - Issue #13772: In os.symlink() under Windows, do not try to guess the link
   target's type (file or directory).  The detection was buggy and made the
   call non-atomic (therefore prone to race conditions).